{"id":60930,"date":"2021-05-07T14:49:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/ms-rotterdam\/rotterdam-successfully-sails-through-sea-trials-in-italy\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T15:49:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:49:14","slug":"rotterdam-successfully-sails-through-sea-trials-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/whats-new\/rotterdam-successfully-sails-through-sea-trials-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotterdam Successfully Sails Through Sea Trials in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was smooth seas and fair winds for Holland America Line\u2019s newest ship, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/en_US\/cruise-ships\/ms-rotterdam\/0.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rotterdam<\/a>, which returned in the evening of May 6 to Fincantieri\u2019s Marghera (Venice) shipyard in Italy, after successfully completing two sets of sea trials off the country\u2019s Adriatic coast.<\/p>\n<p>Rotterdam left Marghera April 25 and performed the preliminary sea trials over two days before going into dry dock at Fincantieri\u2019s Trieste shipyard where standard pre-delivery hull maintenance and painting were performed. The ship started its official sea trials on May 3, returning to Marghera May 6, where the final steps in the construction process will be completed. Rotterdam is scheduled for delivery July 30. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Rottedam-Sea-Trials-5-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Rottedam-Sea-Trials-5-1.jpg\" alt=\"sea trials rotterdam\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-141753\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Rotterdam-Sea-Trials-8-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Rotterdam-Sea-Trials-8-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sea Trials Rotterdam\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-141755\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe successful completion of sea trials gives us great confidence as we head into the final weeks of outfitting for Rotterdam and prepare for delivery of this historic ship.\u201d said Gus Antorcha, president of Holland America Line. \u201cConstruction of Rotterdam has continued through the global challenges of the past year with Fincantieri maintaining the highest level of dedication to staying on schedule. Congratulations to everyone involved for completing this significant milestone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Rotterdam-Sea-Trials-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Rotterdam-Sea-Trials-1.jpg\" alt=\"RODM sea trials\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-141757\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During sea trials, Rotterdam underwent a series of rigorous performance tests on the ship\u2019s systems, machinery and engines. Captain Werner Timmers, Staff Captain Kevin Beirnaert, Chief Engineer Stefan Dullaert and other members of Rotterdam\u2019s designated senior bridge and engineering teams participated in testing the ship\u2019s maneuvering characteristics and safety systems in collaboration with the shipyard\u2019s team of naval architects, engineers and builders.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to welcoming our new beauty in a couple of months!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was smooth seas and fair winds for Holland America Line\u2019s newest ship, Rotterdam, which returned in the evening of May 6 to Fincantieri\u2019s Marghera (Venice) shipyard in Italy, after successfully completing two sets of sea trials off the country\u2019s Adriatic coast. Rotterdam left Marghera April 25 and performed the preliminary sea trials over two days before going into dry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1876,"featured_media":60931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,40],"tags":[4191],"class_list":["post-60930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fleet-features","category-whats-new","tag-cruise-ship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67985,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60930\/revisions\/67985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}