And MSC Preziosa makes 12


MSC Preziosa’s life began as an entirely different ship, Phoenicia. Ordered by Grand National Maritime Transport Company of Libya in July 2010, its interiors were to include a mosque, not to mention a 7m x 5m x 5m shark tank in the atrium and on-sea lighting. Jean-Yves Pean, contract manager at STX France, was relieved the on-sea lighting never materialised due to the technical difficulties involved: it would have involved making many holes inside the hull that fortunately were never begun. There were also to be some features in the public spaces using extremely expensive materials including gold – but, again, these were never started. Work continued for Gaddafi until April 2011 but thereafter the yard took the vessel on. Mr Pean said: “We didn’t stop construction, although Gaddafi stopped, because we had insurance and discussions [were taking place] with MSC. During the Libyan period we stopped building the aquarium. The material for it was coming from Japan and then there was the earthquake so they could not deliver. Then we started building for MSC even though we were not under contract.”


The ship was being built to the same blueprint as the MSC Cruises’ Fantasia class and MSC was project-


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managing the building, so it was no surprise that MSC Cruises officially took over the ship in March 2012. MSC Preziosa is almost identical to MSC Divina, the third in class. Both ships have more powerful propulsion, and each has four instead of three bow thrusters, according to Captain Giuliano Bossi, who has delivered all four Fantasia-class ships. He told PST: “The engines are a little bigger. Norwegian Cruise Line was building a ship and revised the order for a second ship. The yard offered the engines to MSC.” There are five Wärtsilä engines, three 12-cylinder of 12,400kW and two 16-cylinder of 16,400kW on each of the ships, giving a total power output of 70MW. Capt Bossi commented: “It feels like driving the same ship as MSC Divina. The ship has comfort class so there are very few noises when the ship is running at full speed. We have stabilisers so the ship doesn’t roll or pitch very much except a little in extremely bad weather.” The ship has been awarded Bureau


Veritas’ ‘7 golden pearls’, which the class society awards to cruise vessels in recognition of attention paid, from design and building to operation, to quality, health, safety and environmental concerns. Capt Bossi


Mr Aiello: “When we go a certain distance outside the planned route an alarm advises both office and bridge”


With the delivery of fourth in Fantasia class from STX France, MSC Cruises (MSC) completes a €6 billion (US$11.6 billion) investment programme that began in 2003 and has resulted in 12 ships. Susan Parker takes a look


believes this recognition is extremely important. “Because we have AWT [advanced wastewater treatment] we don’t make any kind of pollution.” The ship uses fuel that surpasses the IMO limits, he added; “this is a company


MSC PREZIOSA


Gross tonnage Length oa Beam, mld Depth, mld


Draught, max


139,072gt 333.3m 37.9m 15.5m 8.7m


Main engines 2 x Wärtsilä 16V46C 3 x Wärtsilä 12V46C 24.2 knots 23 knots


Speed, max


Speed, service Stabilisers


Bow thrusters


Stern thrusters Passengers


Crew Lifeboats


Liferafts MES


Class Flag


Rolls-Royce


4 x Wärtsilä x 3,100kW


2 x Wärtsilä x 3,100kW


4,345 1,388


30 Schat-Harding (4,300 passengers)


56 Schat-Harding (1,400 passengers)


2 RFD (1,514 crew) Bureau Veritas Panama


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