Utopia of the Seas under construction in April 2023
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History | |
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Operator | Royal Caribbean International |
Builder | Chantiers de l'Atlantique, Saint-Nazaire, France |
Identification | IMO number: 9880001 [1] |
Status | Under construction |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Oasis-class cruise ship |
Utopia of the Seas is a cruise ship under construction for Royal Caribbean International. She will be the sixth ship in the Oasis Class and is scheduled to enter service on 19 July 2024 out of Port Canaveral. [2]
On 18 February 2019, Royal Caribbean and Chantiers de l'Atlantique announced an order of a sixth Oasis-class cruise ship for delivery in Fall 2023. [3] She will be the first in the class to be powered by liquefied natural gas. [4]
Royal Caribbean applied to register a trademark for Utopia of the Seas in 2021, out of 23 other ship names. [5]
On 5 April 2022, Royal Caribbean announced the name, Utopia of the Seas and the steel cutting ceremony. [6]
The LNG-tanks were built by Wärtsila and delivered in November 2022. [7]