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The US-based company SunStone Ships recently celebrated the steel-cutting ceremony for Ocean Odyssey, the fifth Infinity-class next-generation expedition cruise vessel. <\/strong><\/p>\n The ceremony took place at China Merchants Heavy Industries (CMHI) in Haimen, China, on 24 September 2020. <\/p>\n Slated for delivery in 2022, the newbuilding will offer year-round expedition cruises for tour operator Vantage Deluxe World Travel. Ocean Odyssey marks Vantage Travel’s second entry into expedition cruising, following Ocean Explorer\u00a0which is planned for delivery in 2021. <\/p>\n Designed by Norway’s Ulstein, the ice-strengthened (Polar Class 6)\u00a0Ocean Odyssey\u00a0is a luxury cruise vessel for worldwide operations. The ship features the\u00a0Ulstein X-Bow design\u00a0for smooth sailing in rough seas. The hull shape reduces fuel consumption when cutting through the waves and therefore also reduces local emissions.<\/p>\n “We are looking forward to continuing our relationships with all our partners in the Infinity-class project and we, even considering the COVID-19 world crisis, are moving fast forward as planned at very satisfactory speed, safety and quality level,”<\/em> Niels-Erik Lund, <\/strong>SunStone CEO, commented.<\/p>\n The steel-cutting ceremony was held only several weeks after Ocean Explorer, the fourth unit in the series, was launched in China. <\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n The Infinity-class vessels feature a length of 104 meters, a width of 18 meters and a draft of 5.1 meters. In addition, they are able to accommodate up to 200 passengers and up to 115 crew members.<\/p>\n The vessels are built to Ice Class 1A, Polar Code 6, each with Safe Return to Port, Dynamic Positioning and Zero Speed stabilizers. <\/p>\n Greg Mortimer<\/a>, SunStone’s first new expedition ship, was handed over to the company in September 2019. Another three units — Ocean Victory<\/a>, the aforementioned Ocean Explorer and Sylvia Earle — are scheduled for delivery next year. Finally, Ocean Odyssey and Ocean Albatros are expected to be handed over in 2022 and Ocean Discoverer in 2023. <\/p>\n The post First steel cut for SunStone’s 5th next-gen expedition ship<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US-based company SunStone Ships recently celebrated the steel-cutting ceremony for Ocean Odyssey, the fifth Infinity-class next-generation expedition cruise vessel. The ceremony took place at China Merchants Heavy Industries (CMHI) in Haimen, China, on 24 September 2020. Image Courtesy: SunStone Slated for delivery in 2022, the newbuilding will offer year-round expedition cruises for tour operator …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1863,3290,1491,6208,1070,3513,3505],"class_list":["post-18827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-5th","tag-cut","tag-expedition","tag-nextgen","tag-ship","tag-steel","tag-sunstones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/18828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\t\t\t
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