Nigeria’s New Port Doubles Cargo Capacity
by Ayodeji Olukoju (University of Lagos) Three-quarters of the world is covered by water and up to 90% of world trade is seaborne. Seaports and shipping are critical to the...
Harmony Of The Seas at drydock. Photos copyright STX France by Bernard Biger.
[contextly_sidebar id=”deSAVPqw3xZfxFAxln58dCifSVkUeqkn”]The above photo is of the latest Oasis-class Mega Cruise Ship Harmony of the Seas’. She is currently under construction at STX France. The steel cutting for the ship began on the 23rd of September 2013 and the metal shell is now about 80% complete. The last mega-blocks will be installed in early June and she is set to be launched later that month.
Harmony of the Seas, Royal Caribbean’s third Oasis-class cruise ship, will have her inaugural cruise in June 2016.
Check out these new construction photos at Mer et Marine
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