Holland America Line’s Nieuw Statendam, the second Pinnacle Class ship in the fleet, returned to Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard in Italy after successfully completing two sets of sea trials off the coast. Nieuw Statendam left Marghera on 10 August for the first set of sea trials over two days before going into dry dock at Fincantieri’s Trieste

A Dutch Guilder, dated 1898 to celebrate the year Holland America Line’s first Statendam came into service, has been welded to the front of new ship Nieuw Statendam at a special ceremony in Italy. In anticipation of the upcoming float-out of the 99,500-ton ship on 21 December, Holland America held the “Good Luck” coin ceremony