MSC Cruises bets on the Red Sea with departures from Saudi Arabia

The Red Sea is one of the great bets of MSC Cruises, not only this summer but also in winter 2021/22, with departures from Saudi Arabia.

The MSC Bellissima, one of the company's most modern ships, vai realizar 21 Red Sea trips from Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), between the end of July and the end of October.

The ship, who started browsing 2019, will offer three- and four-night cruises with stopovers in Safaga, for Luxor, in Egypt and Aqaba to Petra, Jordânia, before returning to the Saudi port of embarkation.

These summer cruises will be joined by Red Sea voyages for the winter of 2021/22 of MSC Cruises, previously announced, departing Jeddah from November.

MSC Bellissima will be the eighth MSC Cruises vessel to resume operation with three more to be prepared to begin future voyages, which will allow half of the company's fleet to return to the sea by the end of the summer.

It should be noted that five MSC Cruises ships are already sailing in the Mediterranean – MSC Grandiosa, MSC Seaside, MSC Orchestra, MSC Splendida and MSC Magnifica, while MSC Virtuosa is operating in the UK and MSC Seaview is cruising the Baltic Sea.

Also, MSC Meraviglia will be in the Caribbean departing from Miami to 02 August while from 18 September MSC Divina will join the region, when to restart cruise operations out of Port Canaveral, on Flo31rida.

O MSC Seashore, the company's new ship, will start browsing in August, with Western Mediterranean cruises, before heading to Miami in November, for its inaugural season in the Caribbean.

Started construction of MSC Euribia

With the start of construction of the MSC Euribia, the cruise company says it takes another step forward in its commitment to environmental sustainability.

Our Atlantic projects, em Saint Nazaire, França, the first steel was cut that marks the official start of the construction of the most environmentally advanced ship by MSC Cruzeiros to date., and your name was also revealed. It will be called MSC Euribia.

With entry into service scheduled for June 2023, MSC Euribia will become the 22nd vessel in the MSC Cruises fleet and the second to operate with liquefied natural gas (LNG), the cleanest marine fuel available today. Like any ship that joins the MSC Cruises fleet, it will be equipped with some of the latest and most advanced technologies and solutions to minimize its environmental impact.

As dictated by maritime custom, o Executive Chairman da MSC Cruises, Pierfrancesco Vago, joined the General Manager of the Chantiers de l’Atlantique, Laurent Castaing, to start cutting the first steel for the new ship.