Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) is keeping to its 2018 plans to invest $2.3bn in a new luxury cruise brand as the sector finds its way out of a pandemic that shut it down in March 2020.

Italian cruiseship builder Fincantieri has begun building the second of four 64,000-gt vessels ordered last year for Explora Journeys at its Sestri Ponente yard in Genoa.