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Sunday, October 07, 2007

Norwegian Starts Work on Monster Cruise Ship

Good news, Norwegian Cruise Line fans: The Big Boy is underway.

Norwegian executive Andy Stuart pushed a button Monday at France's Aker shipyard to start work on the line's much-awaited next ship, which will dwarf the company's current vessels.
The 150,000-ton goliath, still unnamed, will offer 60% more guest space than the line's biggest ships today and hold an eye-popping 4,200 passengers. It'll measure just a hair smaller than Royal Caribbean's much-ballyhooed Freedom of the Seas, the current record holder among the world's biggest ships.

Norwgian's new ship will become part of an exclusive club of giants that roam the seas (only Royal Caribbean and Cunard have vessels as big). But perhaps more significantly, it'll be by far the biggest ship ever to sail with a "freestyle" format -- the groundbreaking flexible dining formula for which Norwegian is known.

Will the eat anywhere, anytime formula work on a ship so big? It'll be a bit before we find out. The new vessel isn't scheduled to launch until January, 2010.

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