Royal Olympic Cruises (ROC) and Blohm+Voss proceed to disagree on whether or not the 800-passenger Olympia Explorer is prepared for supply or not. After its preliminary announcement of a delay, ROC quickly to be renamed Royal Olympia Cruises has now asserted that the ship won’t start crusing earlier than Sept. 15 “because of the delay in supply… in order that sure technical issues could also be addressed and solved earlier than supply of the vessel takes place.” Passengers already booked aboard the ship will likely be provided a cruise aboard one other ROC vessel.
Stated ROC’s new CEO, John Pantazis, “We’re very disenchanted at having to cancel this summer season’s program out of Venice, as we’ve got good bookings for the ship… and we had anticipated to do properly this 12 months.”
Requested in regards to the shipyard flap, a spokesperson for ROC defined, “The shipbuilding contract stipulates that if there’s a disagreement, the 2 classification societies concerned with the mission Lloyd’s Register and Germanische Lloyd select an out of doors professional to take a look at the scenario and transfer the method alongside. That professional has been chosen he’s a widely known London-based technical marketing consultant and he’ll have a look at all the problems and announce his choice.” The third social gathering’s findings will likely be non binding, and if his participation doesn’t result in an amicable resolution, famous the ROC spokesperson, the contract stipulates that the 2 events then transfer on to arbitration, “which is a protracted drawn-out course of.” The ROC spokesperson confirmed that the introduced Sept. 15 delayed supply date is contingent upon the dispute being resolved earlier than arbitration is critical.
Blohm+Voss just isn’t commenting additional, past repeating its assertion that the ship is prepared for supply. The ROC spokesperson sharply discounted the speculation that the cruise line had determined to delay the ship’s supply due to poor summer season bookings, or any monetary lack of ability to make closing cost.
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