Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri states it has actually completed building and construction agreements for 3 brand-new cruise liner worth an incorporated 2 billion euros with Virgin Voyages, the brand-new cruise liner arm of Virgin Group.

The 3 ships will certainly be constructed at the Fincantieri shipyard in Sestri Ponente (Genoa), Italy with shipment arranged for 2020, 2021 and also 2022 specifically.

Each ship will certainly be concerning 110,000 gross loads, be 278 meters long and also 38 broad. The ships will certainly include over 1,400 visitor cabins that can organize greater than 2,800 travelers, gone along with by 1,100 team participants aboard to supply the well known Virgin solution.

Based in South Florida, Virgin Voyages, previously Virgin Cruises, is backed by lead capitalists Bain Capital Private Equity and also London- based Virgin Group, whose owner and also chief executive officer is billionaireSir Richard Branson The shipbuilding agreements were very first authorized October however relied on closing of the multi-billion buck funding plan.

Steel reducing on the very first of the 3 brand-new ships is arranged for very early 2017, complied with by keel stocking Genoa in the 4th quarter of 2017.

“These ships will stand out for original design and craftsmanship,” Fincantieri stated in a declarationTuesday “They will include some highly innovative ideas and design solutions, notably for energy recovery, reducing the overall environmental impact. For example, they will be equipped with an energy production system of approximately 1 MW, which uses the diesel engine’s waste heat. The result is, therefore, a project which distinguishes Virgin Voyages in the worldwide cruise scenery.”

Virgin Voyages’ very first ship is anticipated to reach PortMiami in 2020 for a variety of Caribbean schedules.