{"id":6510,"date":"2020-03-19T21:51:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T18:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/cmhi-haimen-launches-one-cuts-1st-steel-for-another-sunstone-newbuild\/6510\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T21:51:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T18:51:40","slug":"cmhi-haimen-launches-one-cuts-1st-steel-for-another-sunstone-newbuild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/cmhi-haimen-launches-one-cuts-1st-steel-for-another-sunstone-newbuild\/6510\/","title":{"rendered":"CMHI Haimen Launches One, Cuts 1st Steel for Another SunStone Newbuild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On March 16, China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) Haimen celebrated two milestones \u2014 a launching ceremony for one expedition cruise vessel and steel cutting for another.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both ships have been ordered by US-based SunStone Ships and designed by Norwegian ship builder and designer Ulstein.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/282761\/cmhi-lays-keel-cuts-1st-steel-for-sunstone-ships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ocean Victory<\/a>, the third unit in the SunStone Ships\u2019 Infinity series, was launched on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The 104.4-meter-long, 200-passenger ship is the second exploration cruise vessel built at the yard featuring Ulstein\u2019s X-Box design. It is a sister vessel to Greg Mortimer, which <a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/282897\/sunstone-names-takes-delivery-of-its-first-polar-cruise-ship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was delivered<\/a> to SunStone in 2019, despite the fact that Ocean Victory differs in several ways.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The newbuild has been chartered out to Albatros Travel for Antarctica journeys in the winter season and to American Queen Steamboat for Alaska cruises in the summer.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Also on Monday, CMHI Haimen cut the first steel for Sylvia Earle, the second vessel in SunStone\u2019s Infinity class.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>With a length of 104.4 meters, a width of 18.4 meters, it will be able to accommodate 126 passengers. Once completed, the expedition ship will be operated by Australian cruise company Aurora Expeditions.<\/p>\n<p>world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 16, China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) Haimen celebrated two milestones \u2014 a launching ceremony for one expedition cruise vessel and steel cutting for another. Both ships have been ordered by US-based SunStone Ships and designed by Norwegian ship builder and designer Ulstein. Ocean Victory, the third unit in the SunStone Ships\u2019 Infinity series, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2436,3511,1611,3512,1586,1386,3513,3514],"class_list":["post-6510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-1st","tag-cmhi","tag-cuts","tag-haimen","tag-launches","tag-newbuild","tag-steel","tag-sunstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510","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=6510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/6511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}