PHOTO: Crystal Debussy and Crystal Ravel Steel Cutting. (Courtesy of Crystal)
After launching with the dramatically redesigned Crystal Mozart, Crystal River Cruises has cut the steel for two entirely new riverboats set to launch in spring 2018: Crystal Debussy and Crystal Ravel.
Joining the Mozart will first be the Crystal Bach and Crystal Mahler this summer 2017 with the former sailing the Rhine River and the latter the Rhine, Main and Danube Rivers.
Adding to the list of traversed European rivers will be the two along the Rhine, Danube, Main and Moselle Rivers sailing to the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Hungary.
"MV WERFTEN is successfully continuing the path it has forged and actively pursuing its self-imposed targets," stated Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's Economics Minister Harry Glawe. "Every steel cut for a new ship is a positive signal for the entire maritime industry."
With Crystal parent company Genting Hong Kong as owner of the MV Werften conglomerate of shipyards, it has a substantial list of vessels on order during the next five years alone including the four aforementioned Crystal riverboats, three Crystal Yacht Expedition Cruises ships and two Global-class ships for Star Cruises. Crystal Cruises also expects its first new Exclusive-class vessel to come online in 2022.
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