MSC Cruises, the Geneva based cruise shipping company, said it has taken delivery of MSC Virtuosa from the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint Nazaire, France.

The ship is the second unit of the planned three strong Meraviglia Plus class and has a gross tonnage of about 177,100. It has capacity for 4,842 passengers and was built at a cost of USD850 million, according to Shippax Info.

MSC Virtuosa will enter service on 16 April, with four cruises in the Mediterranean of  three, four and 10 nights before it will move to its new homeport of Kiel, where its will commence Northern Europe itineraries from 8 May.

The company will take delivery of one more ship this year, the 169,380 gross ton MSC Seashore, which is due to be delivered from Fincantieri in Italy in July.