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Virgin Cruises sets sail under new moniker Virgin Voyages

Virgin Voyages

Sir Richard Branson’s Cruise Line Reveals new name and icon, a signed ship building contract and a clean energy partnership.

Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson has revealed Virgin Voyages as new identity for the company’s cruise line.
Joined by the company’s president and CEO Tom McAlpin, they announced the name, and shared that Virgin Voyages has officially signed a ship building contract for three vessels with Italian master shipbuilder Fincantieri, and that the company will be the first cruise line to adopt the clean energy system, Climeon Ocean.
 
Sir Richard said: “Thousands of future sailors and travel professionals shared their thoughts with us and tasked us with delivering the most irresistible vacation at sea and that our name alone should leave them dizzy with anticipation,” said Sir Richard. “I’m excited to reveal we are now Virgin Voyages, and while we have lots of work ahead to build our three ships, we can’t wait to welcome you aboard the ship of things to come.”
 
The ship building schedule including steel cutting will begin early next year, followed by the keel laying in Genoa in the fourth quarter of 2017.
 
Virgin will install Climeon Ocean, a system that will transform low-grade energy into clean electricity, on all three of its ships. The resulting environmental impact will be an estimated 5,400 tons of carbon dioxide savings annually per ship—an amount that would take 180,000 trees 30 years to absorb.
 
Virgin Voyages’ first ship will arrive at PortMiami in 2020, hosting more than 2,700 passengers and 1,150 crew members. For the first ship, Virgin Voyages will offer a range of Caribbean itineraries.
 
 

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