“After delivering the first home-grown large cruise ship Adora Magic City, China has the ability to build all types of maritime ship products.”On January 1, China’s first domestically manufactured cruise ship, the Adora Magic City, left its dock in Shanghai on a seven-day voyage to South Korea and Japan.
Chinese state media hailed the cruise ship as a major milestone for the Chinese shipbuilding industry and “a crown jewel.” The cruise ship weighs 135,500 metric tons, is 323 meters long and has a capacity of 5,246 passengers,many of the Adora Magic City’s components.domestic media that out of the 110 suppliers Shanghai Waigaoqiao worked with, roughly 30% were Chinese companies, while the rest were foreign companies., a joint venture between Carnival Corporation, a British-American cruise operator, and China State Shipbuilding Corporation , China’s state-owned shipbuilding conglomerate.
Tourists leave the Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world, after arriving at Costa Maya Cruise Port, in the village town of Mahahual, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Feb. 6, 2024.