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Wild Discovery
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Mediterranean Shipping Company
Websitewww.wilddiscovery.com.lb

MSC Cruises (

Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.
(MSC). MSC is an Italian-Swiss shipping company devoted to the cruise market with headquarters in Geneva. The company, whose capital is wholly Swiss, employs 12,000 people worldwide and has offices in 43 countries.

Originally founded as Lauro Lines by Achille Lauro, the company entered the cruise business in the 1960s, operating two ships, the

Palestine Liberation Front, and the much-publicised event further dropped passenger numbers. In 1989, Flotta Lauro was purchased by Mediterranean Shipping Company and renamed StarLauro Cruises.[1] In 1994, the Achille Lauro caught fire and sank. In 1995, the company name was changed to MSC Cruises.[1]

MSC Cruises claims to be the third largest cruise operator in the world,

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
with a 6% share of all passengers carried and cruise revenue in 2012. Yet, because MSC Cruises has no stakes exchanged on the market, it has no obligations to issue its budget certified by independent parties, which therefore it does not; as a consequence the data MSC Cruises releases about itself are not verifiable.

On March 1, 2010, after strong support from French government, STX Europe and MSC Cruises announced signing a new Letter of Intent to build one, 139,000 ton, 3502 passenger, Fantasia-class ship, which is subject to financing, at STX Europe St-Nazaire.

Ships

Lirica class

Ship Built Builder Entered service
for MSC
Gross Tonnage
 Flag Notes
MSC Armonia 2001
St. Nazaire
)		 May 2004 58,625 tons  Panama Previously European Vision for the failed Festival Cruises.
MSC Sinfonia 2002
St. Nazaire
)		 March 2005 58,625 tons  Panama Previously European Stars for the failed Festival Cruises.
MSC Lirica 2003
St. Nazaire
)		 March 2003 59,058 tons  Panama Modified ex Festival's European-class.
MSC Opera 2004
St. Nazaire
)		 March 2004 59,058 tons  Panama Modified ex Festival's European-class.

Musica class

Ship Built Builder Entered service
for MSC
Gross Tonnage
 Flag Notes
MSC Musica 2006
St. Nazaire
)		 July 2006 92,409 tons  Panama
MSC Orchestra 2007
St. Nazaire
)		 May 2007 92,409 tons  Panama
MSC Poesia 2008
St. Nazaire
)		 Oct. 2008 92,627 tons  Panama
MSC Magnifica 2010
St. Nazaire
)		 March 2010 95,128 tons  Panama Modified Musica-class.

Fantasia class

Ship Built Builder Entered service
for MSC
Gross Tonnage
 Flag Notes
MSC Fantasia 2008
St. Nazaire
)		 Dec. 2008 137,936 tons  Panama
MSC Splendida 2009
St. Nazaire
)		 July 2009 137,936 tons  Panama Ordered as MSC Serenata and renamed MSC Splendida in 2008.
MSC Divina 2012
St. Nazaire
)		 June 2012 139,400 tons  Panama Modified Fantasia-class. Ordered as MSC Meraviglia and renamed MSC Divina in 2010.
MSC Preziosa 2013
St. Nazaire
)		 March 2013 139,400 tons  Panama Modified Fantasia-class.Originally ordered for Libyan based General National Maritime Transport.[3]
MSC Orchestra at Istanbul
MSC Magnifica at Amsterdam
MSC Splendida at Lisbon

Former ships

Ship Built Builder Entered service
for MSC
Gross Tonnage
 Year Retired
MSC Symphony 1951 Wigham Richardson 1994 16,000 tons 2000
MSC Monterey 1952
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.
 1994 20,000 tons 2006
MSC Rhapsody 1977 Burmeister & Wain 1995 17,095 tons 2009
MSC Melody
 1982
CNIM (La Seyne-sur-Mer
)		 1997 35,143 tons 2013
Angelina Lauro 1938 Koninklijke Maatschappi N/A 24,377 tons 1979
Achille Lauro 1947 Koninklijke Maatschappi N/A 23,629 tons 1994

References

  1. ^ a b "The history of MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA". Swiss Deep-sea Shipping. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
  2. ^ "2012 World Wide Market Share". Cruise Market Watch. 2011-11-20.
  3. ^ "MSC Cruises-UK News: MSC Cruises Welcomes MSC Preziosa". Msccruises.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-02-15.

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