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CELEBRITY CRUISES' MILLENNIUM
ARRIVES AT NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., April 3, 2001 – Newport News
Shipbuilding (NYSE: NNS) announced that the cruise
ship Millennium arrived at the company today
for a 10-day period of work. Work being performed will
include repairs to an under-performing electric motor
that operates one of the ship’s two propulsion units
and maintenance to various ship systems.
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John Whalen
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Celebrity Cruise Lines' Millennium
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Owned and operated by Celebrity Cruises based in Miami,
Florida, Millennium joined the Celebrity fleet
in June 2000, and is the first cruise ship in the world
to employ smokeless gas turbines as the primary source
of propulsion power. The 91,000-ton ship, which is 965
feet long and 106 feet wide, carries 1,950 passengers.
Since 1992, NNS has enjoyed an excellent
relationship with Celebrity Cruises. The Celebrity ships,
Zenith and Horizon, which sail the Caribbean,
have docked exclusively at NNS since they have been in
service.
Newport News Shipbuilding designs and constructs
nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines for the
U.S. Navy and provides life-cycle services for ships in
the Navy fleet. The company employs nearly 17,000 people
and has annual revenues of approximately $2 billion. Visit
NNS on the Web at www.nns.com.
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