On August 12, 2013, FSUE Rosmorport signed trilateral agreements with Louis Shipmanagement ltd. and V.Ships Limited on time-charter of cruise ships Thomson Spirit and Louis Olympia to accommodate and service Sochi guests, says press center of Rosmorport.
Cruise ships will be used as floating hotels for accommodation of spectators and security forces during Winter Olympic Games in Sochi next year. The companies are the winners of the open request for proposals, conducted by the FSUE Rosmorport in 2013.
Cruise ship Thomson Spirit was built in 1984, has 627 cabins for 1,254 passengers. Louis Olympia, build in 1982, offers 725 cabins of categories from 3 to 4 stars.
Both ships are to be moored at the berths of Sochi cargo district in the estuary of the Mzymta river.
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