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The biggest ship Carnival Cruise Line has ever built has arrived to its year-round home in Port Canaveral, even though it doesn’t have dates for its first voyage with passengers yet.
In cold, dark Finland, in the middle of the pandemic, shipyard workers at Meyer Turku were hard at work setting a rollercoaster on top of a cruise ship - a world first.
Others were installing a brewery that could produce craft beers with filtered sea water, intended for a staggering on-board audience of up to 6,500 passengers.
Their work at the shipyard is now complete: Mardi Gras, Carnival Cruise Lines s largest Fun Ship ever, is ready to set sail. Of course, it will be months before even the first traveller steps on board. Questions abound as to when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will lift its no-sail orders and allow ships to resume-or in the case of Mardi Gras, commence-operations.
By FRAN GOLDEN | Bloomberg | Published: December 28, 2020 In cold, dark Finland, in the middle of the pandemic, shipyard workers at Meyer Turku were hard at work setting a roller coaster on top of a cruise ship a world first. Others were installing a brewery that could produce craft beers with filtered sea water, intended for a staggering on-board audience of up to 6,500 passengers. Their work at the shipyard is now complete: Mardi Gras, Carnival Cruise Lines s largest Fun Ship ever, is ready to set sail. Of course, it will be months before even the first traveler steps on board. Questions abound as to when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lift its no-sail orders and allow ships to resume or in the case of Mardi Gras, commence operations.
Think COVID s killed the cruise ship? Now there s one with a roller coaster on board
By Fran Golden
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In cold, dark Finland, in the middle of the pandemic, shipyard workers at Meyer Turku were hard at work setting a roller coaster on top of a cruise ship. Others were installing a brewery that could produce craft beers using filtered sea water, intended to entertain an on-board audience of up to 6500 passengers.
Their work at the shipyard is now complete. Mardi Gras, Carnival Cruise Lines s largest Fun Ship ever, is ready to set sail.
An artist s impression of the ship-board roller coaster.