Katara
The current position of KATARA is in Tyrrhenian Sea with coordinates 38.13229° / 13.40815° as reported on 2024-07-23 19:34 by AIS to our vessel tracker app. The vessel's current speed is 13.2 Knots
The vessel KATARA is a Yacht that was built in 2010 and is sailing under the flag of [QA] Qatar.
The 124.4m/408'2" motor yacht 'Katara' was built by Lurssen in Germany at their Lemwerder shipyard. Her interior is styled by design house Alberto Pinto and she was delivered to her owner in May 2010. This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Espen Oeino and she was last refitted in 2022.
Katara has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 34 guests in 18 suites. She is also capable of carrying up to 95 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.
Her features include beauty salon, elevator, underwater lights, beach club and gym.
Katara is built with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, with teak decks. Powered by twin diesel MTU (20V 1163 M94) 20-cylinder 9,925hp engines running at 1325rpm, she comfortably cruises at 15 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 20 knots. Katara features at-anchor stabilizers providing exceptional comfort levels. Her water tanks store around 80,000 Litres of fresh water. She was built to Germanischer Lloyd classification society rules.
MSC Seaside
MSC Cruises has invested heavily in this prototype. During MSC Seaside’s delivery ceremony in November 2017, the company announced that two Seaside Evo ships would be delivered in 2021 and 2023 with an additional investment of €1.8bn.
These will be larger versions of the same design, carrying up to 5,646 passengers, as opposed to Seaside’s 5,179, and be longer at 339m. This makes a total of 10 new ships the company plans to deliver between now and 2026, at an overall cost of €10.5bn, making it the highest number of ships on order worldwide and an unprecedented expansion strategy.
MSC SEASIDE CRUISES INTO THE AMERICAN MARKET
The ship that follows the sun - the official description of MSC Seaside - is a nod to its unique design and the Caribbean itineraries that this 20-deck, 323-metre-long ship has been created for.
MSC Seaside is pitched as the new flagship vessel of MSC Cruises’ fleet and the first of a new prototype that is designed to “bring passengers closer to the sea”. It is a design that the company believes can optimise its revenue and position in the American marketplace.
“It is a ship that revolutionises industry standards,” says MSC Cruises’ executive chairman Pierfrancesco Vago, “with an audacious and innovative design that brings guests and sea closer.”
MSC Seaside is designed to bring passengers closer to the sea
AN UNPARALLELED EXPANSION PLAN FOR THE CRUISE INDUSTRY
MSC Cruises has invested heavily in this prototype. During MSC Seaside’s delivery ceremony in November 2017, the company announced that two Seaside Evo ships would be delivered in 2021 and 2023 with an additional investment of €1.8bn.
These will be larger versions of the same design, carrying up to 5,646 passengers, as opposed to Seaside’s 5,179, and be longer at 339m. This makes a total of 10 new ships the company plans to deliver between now and 2026, at an overall cost of €10.5bn, making it the highest number of ships on order worldwide and an unprecedented expansion strategy.
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“It goes without saying that we’re the number one cruise line in Europe,” says Antonio Paradiso, MSC's managing director for the UK and Ireland and executive director of Australia and Scandinavia. “We’re really strong in the Mediterranean and now our main priority is to focus on the UK and the US.”
The UN’s World Tourism Organisation confirmed that international tourism grew by 7% in 2017 to reach a total of 1.3 billion – more than the predicted 4-5%. In the cruise industry, CLIA notes that the UK saw a record 1.9 million tourists taking cruises in 2016, which outpaced European cruise market growth. While 25.8 million tourists took cruises overall, by the far the biggest market is the US at 11.52 million.
“MSC Seaside will spearhead our campaign to expand our presence in North America,” says Gianni Onorato, CEO of MSC Cruises. “These numbers bring up the point that 98% of people don't go on a cruise and only 2% have chosen this different way of taking holidays, so the potential is huge.”
Onorato says the first thing the company did was commit to a long-term plan. “We know that today there are only three yards able to build [cruise ships] in the world and each year they can build a couple of ships,” he says, confirming that to deliver on the strategy they had to take “all the slots available”.
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