The
world's biggest-ever cruise ship, the 120,000-ton Harmony of the Seas, a
luxury home on the waves for 8,500 passengers and crew, was handed over
by a French shipyard on Thursday after a 40-month engineering feat.
At
66 meters, it is the widest cruise ship ever built, while its 362-meter
length makes it 50 meters longer than the height of the Eiffel Tower. The
floating town, which cost close to one billion dollars, has 16 decks
and will be able to carry 6,360 passengers and 2,100 crew members. The
ship was built for US-based Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd by the STX
France boatyard in Saint-Nazaire on the Atlantic coast, where a
spectacular ceremony marked the handover on Thursday.
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