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A steel cutting ceremony has signaled the World. the start of construction for the ? rst of three new cruise ships for the Virgin

Group’s new cruise line, Virgin Voyages.

The three new ships are being built by

Fincantieri at its shipyard in Genoa, Italy for scheduled deliveries in 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively. Each 110,000 gt ship will measure 278 x 38 m. The ships will feature more than 1,400 guest cabins for 2,700 passengers, with 1,150 crew. The steel cutting ceremony was attended, among others, by Tom McAlpin,

President and CEO of Virgin Voyages, and for Fincantieri by Luigi Matarazzo, Senior

Vice President New Building Merchant

Ships, and Paolo Capobianco, Director of the Sestri shipyard.

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Remote Contolled Workboats

Tuco Marine Group has introduced remote controlled navigation sys- tems for the ProZero Workboats, offering autonomous self-piloting vessels. Working together with Sea Machines, Tuco Marine Group can now provide the ProZero series, delivered with a system that makes the vessels autonomous and remote controlled.

The system can be embedded into a wide variety of boats in the

ProZero series, making them self-piloting, increasing productivity and keeping personnel safe from potential harm. Sea Machines

Robotics’ new system, called RC NXT, can be incorporated into an

Tuco Marine existing or newly built ProZero model. * Statistics as of 2/14/2017 http://www.marinelink.com/news/controlled-workboats423239

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