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Article: Royal Caribbean Cruises to build largest passenger ship.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 16, 2003
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Byline: Dale K. Dupont
Royal Caribbean Cruises is getting set to build new ships that would be the largest afloat.
The world's second biggest cruise company Monday said it is working with Finland's Kvaerner-Masa Yards for one and possibly two "Ultra-Voyager" class ships that would hold 3,600 passengers and come out in 2006 and either 2007 or 2008. The ships would hold 500 more people than the Miami company's four Voyager vessels each hold now.
And they would be bigger than Cunard's Queen Mary 2, which is expected to start sailing in January. With room for 2,620, the QM2 will be the largest and most expensive _ $780 million _ passenger ship ever ...