Croatian shipbuilding company Brodosplit and the Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, largest in Europe, signed two new contracts for building grand blocks for mega cruise ships as part of a long-term cooperation agreement between the two companies which should result in Brodosplit’s 2019-2025 annual profits of about 500 million kuna (€67.6 million).

“The agreement on long term business and technical partnership until 2025 is the result of a successful cooperation between Brodosplit and one of the world’s largest shipbuilding groups, the Fincantieri Group, which began in 2014, a year in which Brodosplit built and delivered grand blocks for three mega-ships which were built in their shipyards,” a press release from the Split-based Brodosplit said.

The first contract details the project of building sections of over 1,200 tonnes of steel equipped with pipe and lock components, as well as electrical routes, to be delivered in the first half of 2019. The parts, which will comprise the bow of the ship’s hull, will be towed to the shipyard from the group where the ship will be pieced together.

With the second contract, Brodosplit was awarded the project of building the central section of the ship which will be 100 metres long and weigh over 3,000 tonnes of steel, to be delivered in the second half of 2019.

Temporary engagement of Brodosplit workers in a Fincantieri-owned shipyard is planned as well, on a project to complete part of specialist finishing work on a luxury passenger cruise ship.

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