TUI Cruises’ newbuild Mein Schiff 3 was floated out on 8th November 2013 at the STX Turku Shipyard. One year previously the start of production of newbuilding 1383 had been celebrated at Turku Shipyard. The Mein Schiff 3 is scheduled for delivery in spring 2014.

Her sister ship NB 1384, Mein Schiff 4, is currently under production and she will be delivered in 2015. The building periods of these two ships are record-breaking in being extremely tight schedules. New construction practises with a high block outfitting ratio and modularisation have been utilised more than ever. The 99,000gt TUI sisterships will be 295 metres long and approx. 36 metres wide.

They will both have 1,253 staterooms (2,500 lower beds) with a crew of 1,000. The cruise ships will have many environmentally friendly features. The combined system for treating exhaust gas minimizes sulphur, nitrogen oxide, fine dust and soot emissions. Compliance with the safe return to port requirement includes also additional passenger comfort features. Particular emphasis has been put on the ship’s energy efficiency therefore each ship consumes around 30 per cent less energy compared to cruise ships of a similar size.