24th Passenger Ship for Indonesia

Papenburg, 9 June 2008 - Upon completion of interior finishing and plenty of technical tests the new passenger ship for Indonesia, Gunung Dempo, will leave MEYER WERFT on Wednesday, 11 June 2006. She will then undergo extensive sea trials in the North Sea.

The 14,030-gt Gunung Dempo will pass the Papenburg lock around 5.00 pm and will sail down the Ems non-stop towards the North Sea. The ship will pass Weener around 7.00 pm and Leer around 8.15 pm. Passage of the Ems barrier is scheduled for 10.00 pm.

The time schedule is subject to wind and weather conditions and may change at short notice!

During the sea trials the manoeuvring capabilities of the ship will be tested and permanent-load tests of the engines will be performed. Upon the two-day sea trials on the North Sea the ship will return to Emden on 13 June where she will be completed.

The naming ceremony, and the subsequent delivery to the Owners, will take place in Emden on 21 June 2008. Approx. three days later the Gunung Dempo is supposed to leave Emden for Indonesia. Her arrival in Jakarta is expected approx. three weeks later.

Particulars

Papenburg, 14 April 2008 - On 14 April 2008 MEYER WERFT delivered the 69,200-gt cruise ship AIDAbella to the Owner AIDA Cruises in the German port of Emden. The AIDAbella is the second ship out of a series of six the Papenburg shipyard is building for AIDA Cruises. On this ship luxury interiors are combined with state-of-the-art technical outfitting. Along with its new design, the new club ship offers the passengers numerous specialities and a great deal of convenience: Some 65 per cent of the cabins are outside cabins, most of them having their own balconies. Both safety and entertainment meet the latest technical standards ensured by the diesel-electric propulsion system, interactive communication systems and sophisticated stage technology. Upon delivery the AIDAbella will leave the port of Emden in Lower Saxony for Hamburg on 14 April around 4.00 pm. She will call at the port of Kiel on 17 April, and will be named in the port of Rostock/Warnemünde by her godmother Eva Padberg.

The AIDAbella will start out on her first cruise from Rostock to Bergen on 24 April.

Papenburg, 04.04.2008 - MEYER WERFT employees, who successfully completed advanced training courses, received an award from the company to thank them for the willingness to learn and for their commitment to acquire more special knowledge. The participants of the training courses contributed to the training courses in the form of funds and also working hours previously saved in dedicated accounts. This was the fourth time that shipyard employees received this kind of award, a "propeller", which, in the shipbuilding trade, symbolizes forward movement. MEYER WERFT will continue to promote this kind of human resources development so that many more employees will be enticed to keep on learning for the job.

Papenburg, 14 March 2008 - Tomorrow the Indonesian passenger ship Gunung Dempo will leave MEYER WERFT's building dock 1.

Undocking will start around 10.00 am. The Gunung Dempo will be the first ship in the yard's history to be moved out of the covered building dock forwards. Tugs will pull the ship out of the dock alongside a guide rail. Around 11.00 am she will be berthed in the open dock; in the following all remaining work will be completed and the ship's technical systems will be tested.

The time schedule for undocking may change due to weather conditions.

The Gunung Dempo is the 24th ship MEYER WEFT is building for Indonesia. The 14,200-gt passenger vessel has a length overall of 146.8 m and is 23.40 m wide. The newbuilding is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, and at the same time with solid, resilient technical systems. Upon completion, the Gunung Dempo will carry passengers as well as containers.

Conveyance down the river Ems and delivery to the Owner will take place in June 2008.

Celebrity Cruises orders fifth Ship

Papenburg, 22, February 2008 - The US cruise operator Celebrity Cruises (Miami), a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd, has ordered a fifth big cruise liner from MEYER WERFT in Papenburg. The previous contracts for four ships of the Solstice class are now followed by a pre-contract for the construction of a fifth cruise ship.

Delivery of the fifth ship is scheduled for the autumn of 2012. The first ship of this class, the Celebrity Solstice, will be delivered in the autumn this year. The other ships will follow at one-year intervals each.

The 122,000-gt ships for Celebrity Cruises will have a length overall of 315 m and a breadth of 36.8 m. 2,850 passengers will be accommodated in 1,425 cabins. All standard cabins will offer more space than is usual for this type. More than 90% of all cabins are outside cabins, 90% of which have their own balconies. Other architectural highlights of the new ship will be the "Lawn Club" featuring natural lawn, the "Corning Museum of Glass" where the art of glassblowing is presented, and a couple of different restaurants.

"We really appreciate that we will build one more of these innovative cruise ships for Celebrity Cruises" says Bernard Meyer. "This type of ship features extremely energy-efficient and eco-friendly systems."

MEYER WERFT already built five cruise ships for Celebrity Cruises in the early and mid-1990s.