The delivery of Seabourn Odyssey heralds the introduction of the cruise industry’s first new luxury cruise ship in over six years – and Seabourn’s first newbuilding for more than 15 years.
Designed by Norway’s Yran & Storbraaten, Seabourn Odyssey features the highest levels of sophistication and innovation in the cruise industry, blending luxury and elegance with advanced technologies and new materials. Safety and the environment are the foundations of the project for the three new ships.
Seabourn Odyssey and her sisters are very much Green Ships. She has been awarded the Green Star designation; the highest rating for ships employing advanced wastewater treatment technology to minimise pollution and protect the air and sea environments. The Mariotti newbuilding is powered by two fully independent propulsion systems and complies with the latest IMO safety standards for damage stability that come into force this year.
‘Building Seabourn Odyssey required us at T. Mariotti to be creative and to seek out new ways to build a new kind of vessel,’ said Marco Bisagno, chairman of the Italian shipyard. ‘I think Seabourn Odyssey is a further step ahead in the cruise shipbuilding field; she is listed as a Yacht of Seabourn, in fact this ship features the same allure and comfort required to a yacht, and a technical complexity expected of a ship.’
The hull of Seabourn Odyssey was built at the new Adriatic shipyard CI.MAR at San Giorgio di Nogaro, as is the hulls of the other two sisters, and towed to Genoa for final outfitting. The hull of the second vessel, Seabourn Sojourn will arrive in Genoa in mid-July for completion in less than a year’s time.
The new 32,000grt Seabourn Odyssey is 198m in length and can carry 450 passengers in 225 luxury suites, 90% of which have private verandas. She offers one of the highest space-per-passenger ratios in the industry.
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