In the beginning of year 2002 Royal Caribbean International ordered ALMACO Group to refurbish 9 vessels, six of the Vision class and three of the Mega class. That order included over 1600 cabins and by the end of November, ALMACO had finished refurbishing all cabins. ALMACO completed projects in 8 months. These 1600 cabins included
For Brittany Ferries’ 36,000gt newbuilding M/S Mont St Michel, MacGREGOR Food Handling Technology Unit, ALMACOsince 2005, supplied extensive galley, cafeteria, bar and pantry equipment including cold stores. Built for the French owner by the Dutch yard, van der Giessen-de Noord, the vessel is reportedly the largest cruiseferry commissioned for English Channel deployment. Primarily assigned to
Pia Litokorpi has been appointed to a Refurbishment Manager. Pia is 32 years old and has a B.Sc. degree in architecture from Tampere Polytechnics. Prior joining ALMACO, Pia run her own architecture office for five years. Her main duties within ALMACO Group are project management for cabin refurbishments and the development of ALMACO’s visual identity.
The new project and document management system supplied by Fujitsu Invia has been named as ALMACO Navigator. Navigator is an easy to use web-based tool made for project managers, project members, ship owners and partner suppliers working with conversion and refurbishment projects as well as facility management. Navigator offers a workspace for project managers that
During M/S Holiday’s three week docking in February at Grand Bahama Shipyard, ALMACO installed onboard new bathrooms to 109 cabins. ALMACO was able to carry out this complete turnkey delivery in only 12 days by using a prefabricated bathroom semi module system. This semi module system makes it possible to equip in a very cost
Detailed planning with the owner underwrites the performance of MacGREGOR’s, ALMACO since May 2005, complete catering system on board SeaFrance Rodin, highlighting the Group’s capability to design and deliver advanced catering technology systems. At the end of November, SeaFrance’s 34,000gt RoRo passenger ferry SeaFrance Rodin became the largest and fastest ferry to operate on the
ALMACO and Piikkiö Works have agreed to form a partnership to provide cruise ship owners with cabin knowledge and services for the entire lifecycle of their ships. Piikkiö Works is the leading partner and ALMACO the supporting partner during the ship’s concept / fabrication / installation / warranty phase of the cabin lifecycle. ALMACO is
To be able to extend services for US cruise ship owners, ALMACO has opened an office in Fort Lauderdale. The office building is shared with Deltamarin Ltd, the world’s leading cruise ship engineering company. Together, the companies can provide total solutions for cabin and public space conversion and refurbishment projects. In order to combine prompt
MacGREGOR’s Food Handling Technology Unit, ALMACO since May 2005, has supplied outfits of provisions stores for the first pair of Royal Caribbean’s new 88,000gt Radiance-class cruise ships, the largest to be built at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany. Radiance of the Seas, the first of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd’s new Radiance-class ships, is scheduled
