Disney celebrates cruise industry comeback with an Adventure

With its 342 meters, the »Disney Adventure« is once the largest cruise ship made in Germany. Now it is almost finished.

The construction of cruise ships for Asia was intended to give the MV shipyards a future. The Corona crisis bursted the dream that only the "Disney Adventure" testifies to. She has now left the dock.

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Disney celebrates cruise industry comeback with an Adventure

By Robert Niles: Talk about a comeback.In 2016, Genting Hong Kong ordered its biggest-ever cruise ships - forming a new class called the "Global" class. These ships ultimately would be designed as 208,000 GT, placing them among the largest cruise ships in the world at the time.Construction of the first ship, Global Dream, began in 2018. But when the Covid pandemic hit, construction stopped, and Genting Hong Kong fell into deep financial trouble.…

Cruise ship "Disney Adventure" docked out in WismarThe captains Minnie and Mickey have a new home: after more than seven years of construction, the cruise ship "Disney Adventure" has left the shipbuilding hall of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems in Wismar today. Tugs lost the megaship in the morning to the equipment quay – an important milestone on the way to commissioning. In addition to the final sprint during interior construction, the chimneys, t…

Wismar (dpa) – After around seven years of construction, one of the world's largest cruise ships is about to be completed in Wismar. It is expected that the "Disney Adventure" will leave the dock where it had been assembled. The corona-related insolvency of the MV shipyard group in 2022 had significantly delayed the construction of the approximately 340-metre-long ship. Now it is expected to get the final touch at the equipment quay. Originally,…