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By the way, this will be hull number MAR221, IMO1034711, 23,000GT. delivery scheduled for March 2027 as per IHS

so you have a project which still hasn't sold enough cabins at a yard which is I think technically still bankrupt?

They actually did the first steel cutting on 12 March: https://www.seatrade-cruise.com/shipbuilding-equipment/t-mariotti-cuts-steel-aman-superyacht

New Zealand has a new right-wing government which I think is reviewing many of the decisions of the old government.

yes must be the same boat

Amazing that this vessel is completed after all these years. It was originally ordered in late 2013, then cancelled by Petrofac in 2015 and then "sold" by Petrofac to ZPMC in 2018, who then proceeded to complete it on spec. Most of the articles referring to the original order seem to have gone...

Yes I think so, and the delivery date for the 3rd vessel is one year later than previously reported (2026 instead of 2025).

Strange, MSC just announced AGAIN the confirmation of the orders for hull 3 and 4 of this class. They already announced those on 20 Jan 2020. I guess they backtracked on that plan during Covid and have now made a new deal...

here for our non-Norwegian speakers: https://royalbodewes.com/new-orders-for-aasen-shipping/ Great to see our Norwegian friends continuing to put their faith in the Dutch builders rather than going to China or Turkey!

Conversion work on DOS30 is being performed at the TANDANOR yard in Buenos Aires, the broker emailed us.

Apparently, MEIN SCHIFF RELAX is the actual name for hull 6312. MEIN SCHIFF 8 was apparently never confirmed by the line. MEIN SCHIFF RELAX (horrible name) will debut in March 2025 now. I think MEIN SCHIFF 9 will also get a different name (also something stupid probably).

I hope to be pleasantly surprised, and 4 years is a reasonable time schedule. I was just looking at the build times of the large icebreakers and those were all delayed ;-)

Some better renders and the project number (23680) here: http://www.npkb.ru/html/nes160.html

It looks pretty cool. They say 2028 delivery so in Russia that probably means 2031 or so... ;)

hmm, that doesn't sound good. Earlier on she had to be rescued by the lifeboat as well...

This is going to an absolutely massive yacht. The tonnage estimate has been revised upwards, to 7,200GT.

So VIKING VELA is 6316 then?

She left Limassol for the Suez Canal on 8 April. No updates after 12 April 2023. I guess she is now in one of the Saudi ports on the Red Sea, but really not sure. If anyone has seen her, that would be great to hear about it (or even see a pic?).

I think it is basically On Hold. Even if the owner gets compensation from Vard (which he did, didn't he?), he will still need to pay a fortune to complete it somewhere else.

wow quite shocking to see a 161,000GT ship being referred to as "mid-sized". I can remember when a 70,000GT ship was a "megaship" :D