Princess Cruises receives second dual-fuel LNG-powered unit from Fincantieri

Italian shipbuilding company Fincantieri has delivered the second dual-fuel liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered vessel—Star Princess—that was constructed for U.S.-based cruise line Princess Cruises.

The 178,000 GT newbuilding was handed over to its owner at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone shipyard, which is said to be the shipbuilder’s largest production site dedicated to the building of cruise ships. Star Princess joined Princess Cruises’ fleet on September 26, a year after it hit the water for the first time.

According to Fincantieri, the 345-meter-long and 47-meter-wide cruise ship, which wrapped up sea trials in mid-August this year, is the second-largest vessel ever to be built in Italy.

Star Princess is reportedly also the second ship to be constructed by the company for the cruise line as well as the second newbuild in the Sphere class series. Moreover, as informed, the vessel is the seventeenth unit in Princess Cruises’ line-up up sailing around the world.

Now that it has been handed over to Princess Cruises, the ship will join its sister vessel, the liquefied natural gas-fueled Sun Princess,