Nieuw Statendam has 12 passenger decks, a length of 299.75 metres (983 ft 5 in), a draft of 8 metres (26 ft 3 in), and a beam of 35 metres (114 ft 10 in).^[5] She is powered by a diesel-electric genset system, with four MaK engines, each producing 12.6 MW (16,900 hp) to produce a total output of 50.4 megawatts (67,600 hp).^[9] Main propulsion is via two ABB Azipods, each driven by a 14 megawatts (19,000 hp) electric motor. The system gives the vessel a service speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) and a maximum speed of 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph). On two of the four engines, open loop exhaust gas cleaning systems are installed.^[9] The ship also carries 14 lifeboats and six tender boats built by Hatecke, each with a capacity of 150 passengers.^[9] All infrastructure and IT systems were provided by Lufthansa Systems.^[9]

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  The ship's main restaurant.
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  The swimming pool.
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  The bridge.
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  One of the four MaK V12 engines.

On 19 December 2014, Carnival Corporation announced it had ordered two new ships for their brands, with one being the second Pinnacle-class ship for HAL. The ship would be designed as the sister ship to MS Koningsdam, with similar dimensions and similar features that were introduced on Koningsdam.^[10] On 20 May 2016, the day Koningsdam was christened, HAL announced that the second Pinnacle-class ship would be named Nieuw Statendam, in honor of the name's history within the company.^[11][12]

On 12 July 2016, HAL celebrated the steel cutting of Nieuw Statendam, marking the beginning of her construction.^[13] The ceremony was performed in Fincantieri's Palermo shipyard, but the block being built there was subsequently re-located to the Marghera shipyard, where the rest of the ship would be constructed.^[13] On 20 March 2017, the keel was laid for Nieuw Statendam in Marghera.^[14] The first block of the ship to be built, it measured 11.3 m (37 ft) long, 34.8 m (114 ft) wide, and weighed approximately 260 t (570,000 lb).^[14]

On 6 December 2017, the coin ceremony was performed.^[15] Anne Marie Bartels served as the Madrina for the event, in which she welded an 1898 Dutch guilder to the ship's forward mast.^[15] The dry dock's gates were also briefly opened, allowing the hull to touch water for the first time.^[15] Shortly after, on 21 December 2017, the ship was floated out from the shipyard, where she would begin final outfitting.^[15]

Nieuw Statendam successfully completed her two sets of sea trials in August 2018.^[16] She first left Marghera on 10 August for two days before arriving at Fincantieri's Trieste shipyard to review the sea trial's data and perform hull maintenance.^[16] She left for her second set on 18 August and arrived in Marghera on 22 August for continued work prior to her delivery.^[16] On 29 November 2018, Nieuw Statendam was delivered to HAL in Marghera.^[2] She was christened by Oprah Winfrey on 2 February 2019 at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after performing a three-night sailing to Half Moon Cay hosted by Winfrey and Gayle King.^[17]

Following her delivery, Nieuw Statendam sailed from Marghera to Rome, with a visit to Venice, to perform her inaugural voyage on 5 December 2018, a transatlantic crossing from Rome to Fort Lauderdale.^[18] The voyage called in Cartagena, Málaga, and Funchal.^[19] Nieuw Statendam sails Caribbean itineraries from Fort Lauderdale during the winter and re-positions in the spring to Europe to cruise from Amsterdam to Northern Europe and from Rome around the Mediterranean in the summer.^[20][21][22]

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