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Meyer Turku Completes Hero of the Seas Hull Assembly
The fifty-meter-wide AquaDome was lifted in June after about twenty-four hours of work; Meyer Turku said no larger single glass-and-steel component had been lifted onto a ship.
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Meyer Turku Lifts AquaDome Onto Hero of the Seas
The shipyard said the twenty-five-meter-high, fifty-meter-wide dome is the largest one-piece glass-and-steel element ever hoisted onto a vessel.
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Nassau Cruise Port Sets Single-Day Record With 33,254 Passengers
The redevelopment raised Nassau’s daily passenger capacity from roughly twenty thousand to about thirty-three thousand, with room for six full-size ships at once.
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Legend of the Seas Heads to Cadiz Drydock Before Maiden Voyage
Legend’s Central Park is planned with more than thirty thousand five hundred real plants, with Navantia workers set to prepare its gardens in Dique 4.
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Galveston Plans $40M Pelican Island Berth for Shipbuilding
The plan includes a 1,000-foot berth and a 500-foot dock on Pelican Island, where the port owns 357 waterfront acres, including 100 along Galveston Harbor.
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Royal Caribbean Names Six Artists for Legend of the Seas
The line received two hundred fifty applications, with final pieces set for shipboard spaces from the Royal Promenade to the Suite Sundeck and guest boarding area.
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Engine-Room Work Starts on Royal Caribbean’s Sixth Icon-Class Ship
The prefabricated module contains the ship’s main engines, liquefied natural gas tanks and auxiliary machinery before tugboats move it from Gdynia to Turku.
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Miami Warns of Port Traffic as Eight Ships, FIFA Festival Overlap
The free festival runs through July 5 at Bayfront Park, near the west end of Port Boulevard, with first-day gates expected to open before 2 p.m.
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Royal Caribbean Takes Delivery of Legend of the Seas in Finland
Before revenue service, the twenty-deck ship is due to sail from Turku to Cádiz for final outfitting, with a Málaga-to-Rome preview scheduled for June twenty-ninth.
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Royal Caribbean Adds Bahamas Cruise Before Legend’s Florida Debut
The added voyage includes Perfect Day at CocoCay, and guests booked on the November 11 sailing were told they can keep their reservation or switch.
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Grupo Peralta Proposes R$1 Billion Cruise Terminal Near Santos
The terminal would sit inside Litoral Plaza Shopping, one of Brazil’s ten largest malls, with a tunnel to the pier and year-round cruise-only operations.
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Mexico Rejects Royal Caribbean’s Mahahual Project Over Reef Risks
Change.org petitions opposing the development drew more than four million signatures, while SEMARNAT rejected three permits including one involving a pier.