<h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 6px; border: 0px; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 47, 109);">Fincantieri brought aboard Carnival’s Chinese shipbuilding plans</h2><p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Shanghai: Italian yard Fincantieri has come onboard plans to develop cruise shipbuilding in China. Carnival Corp has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Italian company to explore the possibility of forming a joint venture to build cruiseships in China. The tie up follows hot on the heels of October’s pact between Carnival and state-run China State Shipbuilding Corp to look at cruiseship building and even cruiseship owning. Carnival will look at designing China-specific cruiseships with CSSC and Fincantieri tasked with building them.</span><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">"Building on our groundbreaking MOU signed with CSSC last month, this new agreement with Fincantieri gives us the opportunity to work with our longtime partner to further explore a formal joint venture that could forever change the landscape of shipbuilding in China," said Carnival ceo Arnold Donald.</span><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">"After working diligently to get a deep understanding of Chinas aggressive cruise ambitions, were collaborating with two of the worlds top shipbuilders in Fincantieri and CSSC to establish a framework for a world-class Chinese shipbuilding venture designed to help accelerate growth and demand for cruising in China in the years to come."&nbsp; [24/11/14]</span><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"></span></p><p><img data-cke-saved-src="http://www.asiacruisenews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/images/fincantieri.jpg" src="http://www.asiacruisenews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/images/fincantieri.jpg" alt="Fincantieri brought aboard Carnival’s Chinese shipbuilding plans" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal; width: 380px; height: 210px; float: left; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"></span><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><div><br></div>