NORMAL LIFE: Finland To Build World's Largest Passenger Vessel

It came as a huge surprise to me too when the media revealed that Aker Finnyards, a shipyard based in Turku on the West coast of Finland, would be building the world's largest and most expensive passenger vessel.

The largest Finnish export deal ever and the most expensive ship order in the history of shipbuilding with a price tag of €900million, the vessel will be able to carry 5,400 people. Now, that's alot of people! The new cruise liner will be 360 metres long and will be delivered in Autumn 2009.

At the moment, the largest vessel is the 'Queen Mary II', but Finland is already building a larger ship, 'Freedom Of The Seas', which will be ready this Apri! Who would have thought that shipbuilding in Finland would be such big business, eh?

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