How Do You Build One Of The Biggest Cruise Liners In History?

The Meraviglia is a state-of-the-art cruise ship, and is a whopping 315 meters long, 65 meters high, and weighs in at 80,000 tons. Constructed from 300,000 pieces of steel, it required advanced simulation calculations, an army of engineers, 16 million hours of manpower and Europe's most powerful gantry crane capable of lifting 1,200 tons.

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