A second cruise ship from AIDA Cruises is to dock at Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven AG in October. The “AIDAcara” will call October 7th -19th and follow “AIDAbella” which was at the yard in April.
Built in Finland in 1996, “AIDAcara” will undergo class and maintenance work. Lloyd Werft Board Chairman Rüdiger Pallentin said the order marked not only “the success of our efforts to win AIDA as a customer, but also proof of the good work we have already completed”. Mainly technical work is on the cards for the latest ship’s 13-day stay in Bremerhaven.
The “AIDAcara” is 193.3 m long, 27.6 m wide and of 38,557 GT. When she was built in 1996 she was the first ship in AIDA’s new Club Ship cruise shipping concept. Since then AIDA Cruises has become the market leader in German cruise shipping. In 2012 the company carried about 633,000 passengers on a fleet of ten ships.
During her stay, the Bremerhaven shipyard will carry out technical work on “AIDAcara” including conservation, tank cleaning, gearing and rudder work, gangway weight tests and seacock inspection. AIDA Cruises personnel will themselves organise conversion and renewal work in the passenger areas.
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Press Release, August 9, 2013