For now, these are just rumors, but if they are confirmed, MSC Cruises will own the largest cruise ship in the world, writes the German website Cruise Tricks. The company is in advanced stages of negotiations with the Finnish shipyard Meyer Turku on this matter.
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For now, the most powerful ship in the world is Royal Caribbean, whose displacement is 248.7 thousand tons, the same indicator for the aforementioned MSC ship would be 270 thousand tons.
MSC Cruises is part of the Italian Mediterranean Shipping Company and is one of the largest shipping companies in the world. It has 21 cruise ships sailing on seas around the world. The largest (215,800 tons) and the newest is the MSC World Europa, built in France in 2022. Thanks to it, it has reached the first league in its field.
MSC operates year-round cruises in the Mediterranean and seasonally in Northern Europe, the Caribbean, South America, Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The line also offers seasonal transatlantic cruises.