Viking Ocean Cruises, the privately owned Switzerland based cruise shipping company, has placed an order with Fincantieri in Italy for a fourth cruise ship newbuilding, an equipment supplier said in a statement.

“This is our fourth new build contract with Fincantieri for Viking Ocean Cruises, and all the four vessels have Scanship Total Clean Ship,” Frode Andersen, VP Sales & Marketing at Scanship, the Norwegian waste treatment system supplier.

Eаrlier today, the company said in a statement: “Scanship Holding ASA has through its subsidiary Scanship AS entered into a contract with the Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri for a total clean ship system delivery to Viking Ocean Cruises newbuild,” Scanship said.

“This is the fourth total clean ship system we will be delivering to Fincantieri for the Viking Ocean Cruises. From next year on until 2017, these ocean-going liners will enter service with the most advanced systems to date for waste management and wastewater purification. We are excited to be aboard, and to set sail in the tradition of real Viking exploration. This time around the voyage will be in an environmental sustainable way”, Henrik Badin, CEO of Scanship, said in the statement.

Viking Ocean Cruises’ first three ships will be called Viking Star, Viking Sea and Viking Sea, respectively.

The company has been expected to place an order for fourth vessel. They are of 47,800 gross tons and can accommodate 928 passengers each. The company will commence operations next year and it targets the high end of the market.