Day: Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Marghera, Italy Mar. 21, 2017 – The keel-laying ceremony for Holland America Line’s ms Nieuw Statendam took place today at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Marghera (Venice). The first building block of the new ship, which will be a sister ship to the recently introduced ms Koningsdam, is 11.3 meters long (37 feet), 34.8 meters wide (114.17 feet) and weighs in at approximately 260 tons. This precisely built piece will be part of the central section of the ms Nieuw Statendam, which will enter service at the end of 2018. As wil the ms Koningsdam, Tihany Design and Yran & Storbraaten will

Seattle, Wash., March 16, 2017 — Holland America Line’s ms Koningsdam earned its second perfect score of 100 on a routine United States Public Health (USPH) inspection conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — making it two out of two for the premium cruise ship. This follows ms Oosterdam’s and ms Eurodam’s recent perfect scores. Koningsdam’s unannounced USPH inspection was held March 12, 2017, during a turnaround in Fort Lauderdale at Port Everglades, Florida, at the start of a 10-day Caribbean cruise. The perfect score is the second for the ship that launched in April 2016 and that earned a 100 on its