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Today...

..this elite team of ship builders

is embarking on an extraordinary
endeavour.

When she's built, she'll be
absolutely amazing.

They are racing to build
an astonishing vessel,

one of the largest

and most advanced cruise ships in
the world.

It's a very, very big cruise ship.

It's a different kind of ship.

This is a ship of mammoth magnitude,

constructed from 42,000 tonnes
of steel.

It will carry almost 9,000
passengers and crew.

Equipped with the world's longest
onboard dry slide.

And capable of running on

a ground-breaking new fuel source.

It's a new prototype.

We have to be sure that everything
is safe.

To build this seafaring goliath,

the team must combine
time-honoured tradition...

..with trailblazing technology...

A prototype with LNG was a
challenge.

..and battle punishing deadlines.

Stop. The amount of things to do is
unbelievable.

We are at that critical stage where
any slight

delay will have a knock-on effect.

This is the inside story of
the extraordinary race

to build the billion-pound
cruise ship.

Today in Saint-Nazaire, France...

..an enormous team of 3,000
shipbuilders is starting

construction on the prototype for

a new class of colossal
cruise liner.

It is a massive ship. It is one of

the biggest in the world.
We have 22 storeys,

40,000 square metres
of public area. It's a huge ship.

The new prototype is called
MSC World Europa.

Trevor Young leads
the team designing this giant.

This ship will push

a lot of boundaries, from
the interior design

and the guest experience,
but also the technical side.

This new class of ship will be
the largest

and most advanced vessel this cruise
line has ever built.

It features a brand-new,

futuristic bow shape
to help it carve through waves.

And the vessel's ambitious scale
and innovation will stretch

the limits of cruise ship design
and construction.

We wanted this ship to be
the next level,

or the next generation,
of what we have built in

the past.

The inspiration was
Blade Runner 2049,

where everything is high technology,

but also very organic
and not just uniform.

So when she's built,
she'll be absolutely amazing.

A high-tech vessel

of this magnitude doesn't
come cheap.

The ship's owner is investing over
£1 billion

to build this ocean-going leviathan.

The cost of building this ship is
quite

extraordinary when you think
about it.

It's over one billion euro.
It's a huge investment.

We have a huge team here in London
to actually design

and co-ordinate the build of
the vessel.

We have teams also in

the shipyard, where we're building,
in France.

Overseeing the ship's construction
is site director Gaetano Rolando.

It falls to him to ensure
the vessel is built

and delivered on time.

I like my work from the beginning of

the project until delivery

because every day is different.

Every day we are facing
a different problem,

and together with the yard, we are
trying to solve, day by day.

Gaetano has been building ships at
this yard

for more than eight years.

But World Europa will be

the largest vessel he's
ever constructed,

and his biggest challenge to date.

World Europa is a new prototype.

It's really a huge ship in terms
of size,

but most important is
the totally different shape from

the bow to the aft.

This is the mammoth prototype cruise
ship Gaetano

and the team must build.

Measuring 333m long

and weighing 78,000 tonnes, this
vessel will be longer than

the Eiffel Tower
and seven times as heavy.

Propelling this goliath will be five
14-cylinder engines, powered by an

innovative fuel system
known as LNG -

liquified natural gas.

This is a first for the company.

The ship is designed with
a ground-breaking,

open-air shopping promenade
with panoramic, ocean views.

On board, they plan
to build 13 dining areas,

seven swimming pools,

and an opulent rear lounge, complete
with chandeliers...

..to entertain the 6,762 guests

staying in 2,626 cabins.

This vast vessel will be the largest

and most complex cruise ship
the team has ever attempted

to build.

From the technical point of view,

the energy efficiency,

to the design point of view,

it's a different kind of ship.

We are here in Saint-Nazaire
to supervise each step,

from the beginning until the end.

Gaetano and the team have just 36
months to build,

test and deliver
the gigantic vessel.

To recover some of
the enormous construction costs,

tickets for the maiden voyage have
gone on sale before

the vessel is complete.

The demand has been incredible.

So we're super excited that our
passengers feel as

excited as we do about this new
vessel that we're building.

Delaying the liner's maiden voyage
would be a disaster.

The pressure is on to ensure
the team finish

the works on time
and deliver the ship as promised.

Delivering the ship on time is
incredibly important for us

because it gives confidence also

with our passengers that everything
is running smoothly.

The shipyards also have
a huge commitment to deliver

the ship on time as well.

Obviously, if they don't...

Building this mammoth new
ship involves

a number of crucial challenges.

This is how Gaetano
and the shipyard will do it.

First, workers must cut, bend,

and weld 42,000 tonnes
of steel into 59 massive sections

of ship, called mega blocks.

The mega blocks will fit together
to form

the skeleton of the ship.

Next, workers must install two
mammoth, 311-tonne tanks into

the bowels of the vessel that
will hold

the ship's liquified natural
gas fuel.

These will connect to five,

16-megawatt engines that will power
the ship.

Once afloat,

the team must fit out
the public spaces with the shops,

bars and lounges, build, furnish,

and install the 2,626 cabins.

And when complete, the team will
need to load 350 tonnes of food

and drink for guests before
setting sail.

The construction
of World Europa is starting with

the steel cutting.

All pieces of steel is cut by plasma
laser cutter.

Gaetano and the team begin
transforming sheets of bare steel

into the 350,000 individual pieces
that will form

the vessel's frame.

To do this, they use special cutting
machines that fire jets

of super-heated gas,
called plasma, through the steel.

This slices the metal
with millimetre precision.

It's like a puzzle where each pieces
have their final location,

final position,

all together forming
the big ship like this.

Each piece is then carefully bent

and moulded into shape using
powerful presses.

This enables workers
to meticulously craft

the cruise ship's bespoke
shape.

Next, engineers assemble sections of

the vessel in these giant workshops.

They weld together the freshly
moulded pieces of steel into panels.

But Gaetano and the team have
a big problem.

It's a mammoth operation
to construct each of

the ship's 22 decks.

To build, wire up and furnish
the vessel one layer at a time,

deck by deck, would take years,

and the ship would miss its crucial
delivery date.

Every day we are running against
the schedule,

and every day we are solving
a lot of...

..problem together with the yard, in
order to be on time.

To ensure they hit their deadline,

workers here use an ingenious
technique

to speed up construction.

The steel panels are built
upside down.

This allows workers easy access
to install

the ship's critical services,
including plumbing

and ventilation into the ceiling.

A vessel of this size requires

around 75 miles of electrical cable

and over 90 miles of piping.

Next, workers need to join
the completed panels together

to form a mega block.

The building of a mega block is

a challenge, and also
to load this mega block on board.

Once a steel panel is complete,

it is placed on top of another
and welded into position.

Each panel measures one deck high...

..and it takes around 20 panels
to form one mega block.

Once a mega block is complete,

workers use the yard's giant gantry
crane to lift

and flip the mega block over,
turning it the right way up.

The crane transfers
the finished mega block to

the dry dock, where it's
carefully lowered

and welded into place.

It takes around nine weeks

to construct each one of the World
Europa's 59 mega blocks.

Using this mega block method,

the team can work on multiple parts
of the ship at

the same time, which speeds up
the build.

Each block is around 1,000, 1,300
tonnes,

so is really mega blocks.

Lifting these mammoth mega blocks
requires some mega equipment.

We have the biggest crane in Europe,

so the block can be very big.

At 65m high,

and with a lifting capacity
of 1,400 tonnes,

this giant gantry crane lifts, flips

and moves the mega blocks with ease.

The entire shipyard springs
into action.

Mega block after mega block is
assembled,

welded and lowered into position.

The length of World Europa's
enormous hull starts

to fill the dock.

After ten months
of furious construction...

..progress on the build grinds to a
halt.

The team can't add any more mega
blocks until

the ship's innovative LNG fuel tanks

and equipment are installed
in the hull.

In this vast shipyard
in Saint-Nazaire, France,

this team is racing to construct
the billion-pound prototype

for a brand-new class of
cruise ship.

Called World Europa,

the giant vessel is designed
to carry almost 9,000

passengers and crew...

..and will be capable of running
on a new type of fuel.

Basically, the first LNG cruise
ship built in France.

Large vessels, like cruise ships,
are traditionally fuelled by a form

of diesel or marine gas oil.

This new cruise ship will be powered
by liquefied natural gas - or LNG.

This is methane that is cleaned
of impurities and cooled

to around -160 degrees Celsius.

This turns the gas into a liquid,
which takes up 600 times less space

to transport, meaning more fuel
can be stored on board.

The cruise industry is turning
to LNG as a new, greener fuel source

to power its ships.

So with Europa, we started talking
LNG over ten years ago.

When we did that, everyone
thought we were crazy,

that we wouldn't be able
to get the fuel.

But LNG is now a mainstay for nearly
all the cruise lines, and even

in a lot of the cargo vessels
that are being built today.

The company claims that sailing
World Europa in LNG mode will almost

eliminate air pollutants like
sulphur and nitrogen oxides from

the ship and reduce the vessel's
greenhouse gas emissions by 20%.

One of the biggest challenges
for Gaetano and the shipyard

is ensuring the prototype LNG system
is installed correctly.

Today, the team is gearing
up to install the largest part

of the system - the enormous tanks
that store the LNG fuel.

The LNG tanks that we have
on this vessel are huge.

If you look at the general
arrangement plans that I have here.

on deck three, two and one,

this is where the LNG tanks
are situated.

You'll see they take up
over three decks.

So, as you can see,
they're quite huge.

This is how they'll attempt
to do it.

Each of the vessel's two voluminous
LNG tanks measure 28m long

and weigh 311 tonnes.

To install them,

the team will use the yard's gantry
crane to lift the tanks

over the ship...

..and carefully lower them into
specially shaped curved cradles.

The bespoke tanks have been produced
in China and must be installed

with the utmost care.

If a tank is damaged during
installation...

..the team won't be able to build
the rest of the ship

until a new tank is delivered.

It could delay the remaining
construction work by several months.

For World Europa,

we had a lot of challenge,
together with the yard, in terms

of the logistics to install
the tanks.

The tanks arrive from China
on board a cargo ship.

They are unloaded at a nearby dock,
but must make the remaining journey

to the shipyard by road.

The tanks are too large to be loaded
onto trucks, so the team must use

special multi-wheeled, heavy-lift
transporters.

Under the cover of darkness,
the enormous tanks slowly

begin their journey
to the construction dock.

Workers carefully weave
the transporters through

Saint-Nazaire's narrow streets.

They squeeze the tanks
around the yard's tight bend...

..to reach the dockside, close
to the giant gantry crane.

The team pushes through the night
to lift the tanks on board

the half-built vessel.

The following day, both tanks are
safely in position.

They take a lot of challenge
in order to fit the tanks

inside the hull.

It's taken a lot of time,
but finally all went well

and the tanks are fitted
inside the space

without any problems.

Now the shipyard can continue to
piece together more of the liner's

huge mega blocks.

It takes around 17 months
for the shipyard to install

all of the vessel's 59 mammoth mega
blocks,

including the uniquely curved
ship's bow,

the captain's bridge,
and the supports that will

hold the propellers.

As the bare skeleton of the ship
begins to take shape...

..work on the interior can begin.

Didier Dupont oversees the
installation of thousands of crew

and passenger cabins on all of the
yard's new ships.

Engineers must exploit
every inch of space on board

a cruise ship to ensure
they can accommodate as many

passengers as possible.

Didier and the team face a Herculean
challenge.

It would take years to build
and furnish each individual cabin

on board a vessel one by one.

The team would never hit
their deadline, and the ship

would miss its maiden voyage.

To solve this problem,

the team has developed an innovative
solution at this special factory

near the yard.

When you come in, you are
in the cabin factory.

So in this factory, we will produce
all the prefabricated cabins

from world-class projects.

Thomaz Liernan oversees a team of
250 workers who carefully

pre-assemble each one of World
Europa's 2,626

cabins before they're installed
in the ship.

World-class project for us. It's
a big challenge because it's a very,

very big cruise ship, with 4,000
cabins to produce,

and everything on time. So it's very
challenging.

To do that, we have to produce
here in the factory about one cabin

every 20 minutes.

The assembly of each cabin begins
with the wet unit that houses

the shower, sink and toilet.

Workers bolt the cabins
together piece by piece,

just like flat-packed furniture,

on this special production line.

At the end of this production line,

the wet unit is completely
finished.

You have just to connect the water
and electricity and you can use it.

Workers fit the taps, mirror and
shower head to the unit's walls,

then lift them into place.

Now we use this wet unit to produce
the cabin.

We have to be sure that this cabin
will be ready on time,

because we have to respect
the production schedule of the ship.

The cabins move along the production
line so separate teams can install

the desk, bed and electrics.

It is very, very challenging for us
in the factory to have the cabin

and what you need without any
missing element inside.

This is the real challenge for us.

After an astonishing 20
minutes, the cabin is complete.

Only the carpet and some furniture
are left to install on board.

OK, so now this is a cabin
completely finished.

So the cabin will be ready
to go on board.

As you see, everything is protected.

When we do the inspection at the
end, we will not discover some

scratches, something damaged.

So we try to protect everything.

Keeping an eye on the quality
of Thomaz's cabins is Deborah Byrne.

I will show you this cabin.

Deborah works with the factory
to ensure that the team

in the shipyard receives the cabins
to install without any defects

or missing parts.

It's fabulous.

This is a new prototype,
so it's completely new for all

of us in this project.

We obviously have to keep on our
toes because being a prototype,

sometimes there's a possibility
that what we see on paper, once

it's actually been built,
it could be some

of that doesn't quite work.

So it's very important that we pick
up on any of these points.

So you see now, the vanity
is new like that.

So... I can see the alignment now is
much better.

Yeah. The alignment here is good.

No gap.

Obviously, this now, the sharpness
has gone. You've managed to do that.

Yeah. It's much better. And the
hairdryer.

Hairdryer? Yes, hairdryer, you can
remove.

So the drawers is protected,

and the hairdryer...is working
already!

HE LAUGHS

Great. And this is the bracket?

Yeah. And the bracket for the TV.

This cabin is signed off and ready
for installation.

Everything seems to be going well,
but we are at that critical stage

where we have to be sure
we're always on our toes.

We keep the shipyard on their toes
as well because any slight delay

will have a knock-on effect
for the other cabins.

Final task - shrink-wrap the cabin
to protect it during its short

journey to the shipyard.

Every cruise ship is different.

Every time, it's a new
story. Sometimes new problems

with difficulties, but always
a new challenge, and always

to have the target to deliver
the ship on time with the best

quality we can.

On the west coast of France,

a team of 3,000 shipbuilders
is racing to build a 333m-long,

ocean-going Goliath.

More than 20 months after
construction work began,

the bare frame of the ship
is complete.

Its exterior has been painted,
and the engines have been installed.

Before the team can load the
cabins...

..fit out the swimming pools,
lounges and shopping promenade,

they need to move the vessel
to a different dock, to allow

for easier access to install
and test the ship's vital equipment.

To do this, they must first attach
the ship's two huge propellers

beneath the stern.

World Europa have two propeller
for propulsion.

The design was done in terms
to optimise all vibration

and comfort onboard.

The challenge for the ship's
engineers was to design propellers

that provide the best performance
without compromising

passenger comfort.

In 1907, during the sea trials
of the transatlantic liner

the Lusitania, the world's
biggest ship

at that time, strong vibrations
were detected throughout the vessel.

The vibrations were so severe
that parts

of the ship were uninhabitable.

Investigations revealed
the vibration came

from the ship's propellers.

It was caused by a phenomenon
known as cavitation.

The way to avoid the cavitation
is mainly the design of the blade,

that are done in such a way to avoid
this particular phenomenon

on the propeller.

Cavitation can occur when
a propeller rotates and creates

an area of low pressure on the back
of the blades, causing tiny bubbles

of vapour to form.

When these bubbles collapse,
they send shock waves

through the water
and onto the ship's hull,

creating uncomfortable vibrations
on board.

To keep the ship from vibrating,

engineers must design its propellers
to eliminate cavitation.

They slow the speed
at which the propellers rotate.

This reduces the area of low
pressure, but also slows

down the ship.

To compensate, they designed
propellers with five blades.

They increased their size, shape
and distance from the hull.

These large, slower-rotating
propellers should ensure the ship

glides smoothly through the water
without any nasty vibrations.

The propellers will slot
onto two shaft lines that run

through the hull to the engine room.

Here we have a bigger shaft, a line
of more than 60m, connecting

the propeller to the electric
motors.

Engineers use a hydraulic
ram to position the shafts

inside the hull.

The ram grips the shaft and slowly
inches it into the ship, sliding

it towards the engine room,
where it's connected

to the drive motors.

Now the team can attach
the propellers.

Each propeller is crafted
from a specially cast and milled

nickel-aluminium alloy.

They use chains to carefully lift
each 24-tonne propeller onto the end

of the shafts.

It takes great care and precision
to slot them into place

behind the ship's giant rudders.

With the propellers attached,
the hull of World Europa

is finally complete.

The shipyard can now move
the billion-pound prototype

out of the construction
dock for the first time.

Workers fill the dock with sea
water to float the vessel...

HORN BLARES

..and call in six tugs to manoeuvre
the mammoth ship with its futuristic

bow design to her new home,

where work on the interior
spaces can ramp up a gear.

Workers spring into action
the following morning.

They race to fit out and furnish
the ship's

nine shops, 13 restaurants and 20
bars,

including a lavish lounge
at the rear of the vessel.

The team installs the world's
longest onboard dry slide,

a colossal casino, and they fire
up the open-air promenade's

futuristic lighting.

Dockside, Didier Dupont's team is
racing against the clock to unwrap

and install a shipment of
prefabricated cabins arriving

from the factory.

To keep on top of the constant
stream of cabins,

Didier and his team use
an innovative method to load

them on board.

The ship is built with a series
of large holes in its side

on each deck.

The holes provide easy access
to install a deck's worth

of cabins on board.

The yard attaches a giant lift to
the outside of the vessel to reach

each hole...

..so workers can lift
and load each cabin unit

onto the ship.

Special rollers allow the team
to push the cabins on board,

squeezing them through bulkheads
and around tight corners,

sliding them into position, one
after the other.

Once a deck has all its cabins
on board, workers fill the hole

to seal the level.

The forklift operators must ensure
they place the cabins onto the lift

carefully so they don't damage
or dislodge the furnishings inside.

The team prepares to haul their 15th
cabin of the day through the ship.

The team wrestles the two-tonne
cabin through the tight deck.

They must snake it through
a labyrinth of corridors

and equipment that cram
the ship's interior.

A second team welds each cabin to
the deck floor

to lock them into place.

It's hard, but rewarding
work for the team.

It's 7:30am.

As the clock
counts down towards delivery,

the pressure on the team ramps up.

It's one of the most stressful
and most loaded of work moments.

It's all about the delivery.

So it's intense.

Inspector Giuseppe heads
to the cruise ship's aqua park

to check on progress.

Once complete, the ship will have a
ground-breaking open-air

shopping promenade, four luxury
shops and a champagne bar.

This is the kids' pool area.

This is a quite challenging area.

It has to be ready in six weeks.

And there are a lot of activities
still ongoing with a lot

of different entities in charge
for them.

The ship will feature a total
of seven swimming pools, complete

with water slides.

On the side of the pool, the mosaic
application is in progress.

It's not completed everywhere,
and they still have to apply

the grouting.

The showers are still in progress.

Also in the covered area, the
ceiling still has to be applied.

The amount of things to do,

it's unbelievable, if we consider
the ship will be delivered

in six, seven weeks.

Now, it's a...

It's a big challenge.

On the walls, an underwater-themed
artwork starts to take shape.

This thing is beautiful,
but it also has to withstand

the marine condition.

So it's not an easy task, what they
are doing.

It's not long before Giuseppe spots
a potential safety issue

with the water slide decorations.

When the ship moves, a lot
of the vibrations are discharged

on the upper structure and some
elements can vibrate a lot.

The problem is a safety-related
problem.

If they vibrate constantly, they can
break at some point and fall

on the guests. So it's not
acceptable.

So we will have to create another
structure to make them more rigid.

We have to be sure
that everything is safe.

With less than two months
until delivery, the aqua park team

needs to pick up the pace.

Everything is almost on time.

We have some delay in some area,
but already with a plan to recover.

There's a delay.

Over the next few weeks, workers
scramble to finish the ship.

Engineers install colossal
chandeliers.

Chefs sharpen their knife skills.

Waiters perfect their silver
service.

And the entertainers
rehearse their routines.

So, good morning.
How are you? Everything fine?

In charge of World Europa's guest
experience is Neven Zdunic.

The most beautiful part of my job
is dealing with the guests.

I mean, to make them happy,
to realise their dreams.

Neven oversees every aspect
of the onboard experience,

from reception to the entertainment
and dining service.

We go straight to the heart
of the hotel department - reception.

Our staff that are working
to prepare all the things,

what they need to work
with the guests.

Having on board 6,700 guests.

And, of course, we are the one
who has to give them the direction.

Where to go, what to see,
what to have.

Because it's very important for us
to understand well, their needs.

One of Neven's customer experiences
is a bespoke chocolate

and gelato cafe.

As you can see, we are having here
a huge space where we were going

to sell our home-made chocolates.

And, of course, together
with that home-made ice cream.

Hi, Jean. How's it going? All good?

How's it going with the ice cream?
You know, it's going good.

We almost finished with recipes
and adjusting a little bit,

but I think they are pretty good.
You want to try? Absolutely.

Can we taste? This is, ah, my
favourite flavour.

So that's a raspberry flavour.

Our gelato are very straight,
simple.

It's milk, cream.

You know, we use real chocolate.

We don't use, like, cocoa
powder or whatever.

It's really, you know... The real
one.

The real one.

If you are not in a good mood, just
taste one gelato from Jean-Philippe

and then everything will
change in a better way.

JEAN-PHILIPPE LAUGHS

Behind the scenes, Jean-Philippe's
staff are racing to finish elaborate

sculptures - carved from solid
chocolate - that will feature

throughout his cafe.

It's a sprint to the finish line
for Neven's team to ensure the ship

is ready for its maiden voyage.

Right now, concerning
the construction, the ship

is almost ready.

Still, they are finishing
all the details.

Our staff,

they clean, they arrange the things,
they set up all the final items

which they need to put
in the right place.

On the west coast of France,

workers are racing to finish

the billion-pound cruise ship in
time for its maiden voyage.

Finally, after 36 months
of construction,

World Europa's delivery date
arrives.

The brand-new billion-pound
prototype

with its ultramodern bow design

and open-air promenade is
complete.

To celebrate this momentous
achievement,

the shipyard welcomes company
executives and the ship's crew

for a traditional delivery ceremony.

And now, a big round of applause,
first of all, for this work of art.

Ladies and gentlemen,
MSC World Europa!

CHEERING, WHISTLING

In a time-honoured tradition,
the ship is blessed

ahead of setting sail.

Go!

The colossal cruise ship is
now ready to set sail

to embark passengers
for her first full cruise.

From one side, we are set
for the leaving of the ship.

But on the other side, we are
really proud of the product

we built together.

One of the vessel's first ports
of call is Dubai in the Middle East.

Here, the new ship and its crew
will undertake the ultimate test.

Will everything be ready to impress
passengers?

After safely mooring...

..the team must now load a week's
worth of food and drink and ensure

every cabin is supplied with
fresh linen

for the thousands of guests
due to board.

In the loading bay...

..the team races
to stock the giant ship

with its crucial provisions.

Today we are unloading
all the local supplier.

We are going to receive 22,000kg
of wheat,

3,000kg cheese,

10,000 litre milk,

45,000 fresh eggs

and all almost 18,000kg
vegetable, fresh.

Every week we receive at least
five or six containers from Italy.

Liberato and his team must ensure
around 350 tonnes of food makes

it on board ahead
of each week-long cruise.

As we can see, we receive a lot
of a pallet that we load

from directly from the truck
to the ship.

We're going to the storeroom,
to the cellar fridge.

In the same time we will check
the quantity,

if we received the quantity
we requested.

Before the fruit and veg can be sent
to the onboard kitchens, a sample

must be checked
for quality and freshness.

The watermelon look like...good.

We have to test
if it can be also sweet

for giving to our guests.

The quality of the watermelon
is very good.

It's very sweet.

The grapes,

the quality is very small. Small.
Very small.

This is under our standard,
er, quality.

But the taste, uh, looking good.

It's so sweet.

We are going to make a quality
discrepancy for this item

because the size can be more bigger
than this for the next time.

But the taste is very nice.
It's very sweet.

As the mountain of fresh
ingredients pile up...

Hello. Welcome aboard.

Hello.

..at the check-in terminal,
the pressure mounts for the team

as thousands of guests start
to arrive,

eager to board
and explore the new ship.

Passport, please.
And the documents.

After three years of construction
and more than 7 million hours

of hard work,

this prototype for a brand-new class
of cruise ship is finally ready

for its first full cruise.

Today, the ship is ready.

Everything is ready for the guests.

Everything is running
in a perfect way.

And really, today, we can say
that this dream became true.

More than 4,000 guests can now
explore the ship's 22 decks...

..seven swimming pools

and the Chocolate Cafe,

complete with chocolate sculptures.

The ship is very, very nice.

The promenade is fantastic.

The restaurants, all the things
are well done.

We love the food.
The room is perfect.

It's really good.

The following morning, the ship sets
sail on its maiden voyage

around the Middle East.

My overall impressions of Europa,
now that she's sailing

and we've finished it is really
pride that we've done something

that is so amazing.

Big, fuel-efficient,
latest technologies,

the best guest experience
that we can do.

It's thanks to the dedication
and hard work of thousands

of designers, engineers and onboard
crew that this colossal

billion-pound cruise ship is ready
to sail the open oceans.