Meyer Turku, the Finnish cruise ship builder, said that the delivery of Costa Smeralda, the first LNG powered cruise ship that the yard has built, would be postponed by one month to mid-November.

In addition to the propulsion system, the 184,000 gross ton ship also has several public rooms with high tech audio and video entertainment systems. Costa Smeralda is also significantly larger than the vessels the yard has built in recent years, it said.

The baseline design of Costa Smeralda is the shared between four brands of Carnival Corporation & plc – Costa Crociere, AIDA Cruises, P&O Cruises and Carnival Cruise Line.

AIDAnova, the first unit of the class, was delivered, also slightly behind original schedule, from the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg in Germany, at the end of last year.