JUNE 1, 2017 — French President Emmanuel Macron visited the STX France shipyard in St. Nazaire yesterday as MSC Cruises took delivery of its new flagship, the 171,598 GRT, 5,714 passenger Meraviglia.
FEBRUARY 20, 2017 — MSC Fantasia, the first MSC Cruises ship to be retrofitted with exhaust gas cleaning systems, has received her MED Certificate from Bureau Veritas after passing MARPOL testing. This
DECEMBER 23, 2016 — Shipbuilder STX France and MSC Cruises report that the final contract for two Meraviglia-Plus class mega cruise ships has come into force. The two companies have agreed on
FEBRUARY 1, 2016 — MSC Cruises has exercised an option at STX France added two 6,300 passenger cruise ships, worth a total $1.74 billion, to the two 4,500 passenger vessels it already
JUNE 23, 2015 — Geneva, Switzerland, based MSC Cruises and shipbuilder Fincantieri yesterday cut the first steel for the cruise line’s next generation MSC Seaside in a ceremony at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone, Italy,
MARCH 19, 2015—Tourists from two cruise lines visiting Tunisia, were caught in the middle of an apparent terrorist attack yesterday at the National Bardo Museum in Tunis that has left at least
MARCH 19, 2015—The 5,300-passenger MSC Seaside will be the name of the first of two new 154,000-gross ton ships set to sail year-round from the Port of Miami starting in 2017 for MSC
MARCH 12, 2015 — GE has now been selected to lead the Italian consortium that will power MSC Cruises’ two 5,300 passenger Seaside platform cruise ships, ordered at Fincantieri last May, with
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 — Fincantieri’s Palermo, Sicily, shipyard today inserted a new 24 m midbody into the first of four MSC Cruises ships that are being extended as part of the cruise
MARCH 27, 2014 — Shipbuilder STX France and MSC Cruises have signed a letter of intent covering the construction of two new cruise ships, with an option for two more. The two