(telegraph)  Even taking into account the staggering growth of the cruise
industry over the past decade, 2010 will stand out as a milestone year. For
a start, 16 new ships will be joining the global cruise fleet. In November Royal
Caribbean International will be unveiling the world’s largest cruise
ship, Oasis of the Seas. Not only will it hold 5,400 passengers, but this
ground-breaking vessel will offer features never before seen at sea, such as
a zip wire across the decks and a full-sized carousel. Oasis of the Seas
will be followed next May by Norwegian
Cruise Line ’s Norwegian Epic. This will be slightly smaller, holding
4,200 passengers, but will have imaginative touches such as an ice bar and
the only water-tube slide at sea. Source

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• On board the worlds largest cruise ship

     (BBC) From the outside, the world’s biggest and most expensive cruise ship looks like a floating block of flats.  It is only when you are on board the Oasis of the Seas that you start to get a sense of the scale of this enormous liner, which can cater

• Berth of a cruise ship: Worlds Biggest Gets a Home

     (NYTIMES) When the Oasis of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, departed Finland on its maiden voyage earlier this month, it barely squeezed under Denmark’s Great Belt Bridge, with less than two feet to spare.

• STX Europe offers the worlds largest and most innovative cruise ship

     STX Europe’s Turku shipyard delivered the world’s largest and most innovative cruise vessel to the U.S. cruise line Royal Caribbean International

• The Allure of the Seas, launched in Turku shipyard

     The Allure of the Seas, the second Oasis class vessel under construction at STX Finland’s Turku Shipyard, reached its natural element today, 20 November, 2009 as the valves of the dry dock were turned on and the vessel was launched. The Allure of the Seas is the second in a

• Giant Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Line ships in the battle in Barcelona

       (usatoday) Call it the battle of the titans.  Royal Caribbean today announced it would move one of its largest, most amenity-filled cruise ships, the 154,407-ton Liberty of the Seas, to Barcelona in 2011, setting up a head-to-head confrontation with the equally giant flagship of rival Norwegian Cruise Line, the

• Propulsion of Oasis of the Seas

    New video from Royal Caribbean looks at the propulsion system of the world’s largest cruise ship Read at Propelling Oasis of the Seas

• Royal Caribbean takes the Oasis of the Seas

    STX Europe hands over world’s largest cruise ship Read at Royal Caribbean takes delivery of Oasis of the Seas

• World s Most Expensive Cruise Ship

     (forbes)  After five years of planning and construction, Royal Caribbean is unveiling the Oasis of the Seas, a $1.4 billion ship that will be the largest and tallest cruise liner in the world when it takes its maiden voyage this December.  Source

• Passengers tell of chaos as a cruise ship lost power in the Caribbean

     (USA TODAY) Passengers returning home from the Norwegian Cruise Line ship that lost power over the weekend in the Caribbean are recounting a situation that quickly became unbearable.  Source

• Small South Florida company is a driving force in the worlds largest cruise ship

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• Unemployment threatens about Finnish shipyards

    Many of the 5,000 employees and subcontractors at the STX shipyard in the southwestern city of Turku are worried about what will happen to their jobs after the Oasis and her sister ship are delivered amidst a sharp downturn in the industry. “The mood at the shipyard is pretty low.

• Finland STX shipyard strike over layoffs

    More than 1,600 Finnish shipyard workers put down their tools Wednesday to protest planned job cuts at STX Finland’s shipyard in Turku, union officials said. The three-day strike began a day after the shipyard announced plans to eliminate 400 jobs and temporarily lay off many of the yard’s 2,300 workers.

• Prysmian: 5,000 km of cable for the largest cruise ship Ever, Oasis Of The Seas

     “Oasis of the Seas”, the largest and most revolutionary cruise liner in history, built by the international shipbuilding group STX Europe for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., will be unveiled today in Florida, USA. Prysmian Cables & Systems has been the only supplier of approximately 5,000 km of energy and telecommunications

• South Florida seaports have loading at least once in 2010 after a rough 2009

    Cargo volumes plunged and cruise traffic dipped at Broward and Palm Beach seaports in the fiscal year that ended in September, but port officials see smoother sailing in 2010 and a rebound hopefully in 2011. At Port Everglades, Port Director Phil Allen said he never foresaw a slump as deep,

• World’s largest cruise ship nears completion

    In a little more than two months, Oasis of the Seas will be cruising the waters of the Caribbean on its maiden voyage. For now, however, it is in a shipyard in Turku, on the south-west coast of Finland, with 2000 workers on board, busy putting the finishing touches to