The MSC Fantasia, completed in 2008, is similar to the new ship to be completed in 2012.
It’s official: MSC Cruises is getting another new, 140,ooo-ton vessel to debut in mid-2012. The new cruise ship will have 1,751 cabins — 100 more than the two earlier ships in the class. It’ll carry 3,502 passengers at double occupancy. The announcement comes less than a month after the parent company of Princess Cruises said it had signed an agreement for the construction of two new ships. Carnival also recently announced plans for a new vessel to arrive in 2012. The flurry of agreements breaks an industry-wide dry spell for new orders that lasted more than a year as the economy tumbled.