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The move makes the yacht’s interior volume, already considerable at 500 gross tons, feel significantly larger.
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Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2025
What To Know The three new cruise liners, which Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri is making, will weigh in at a whopping 230,000 gross tons each.
—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
The wooden steamship — which measured 95 feet and weighed 82 gross tons — was built in 1873 in Stockton, New South Wales, according to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
The unnamed Wish-class ship will be 144,000 gross tons and powered by liquified natural gas.
—Megan Dubois, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
The new Carnival ships are a new class set to weigh in at nearly 230,000 gross tons.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 23 July 2024
Royal Caribbean has launched three ships over 220,000 gross tons, and says its larger ships break even at only 35% capacity.
—The Week Staff, theweek, 15 Jan. 2024
Icon of the Seas is about 15,000 gross tons larger than Wonder of the Seas, the most recent Oasis-class ship that currently sails out of Port Canaveral and is now bumped to No. 2 on the list of world’s largest cruise ships.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
To get down to an interior volume of just below 3,000 gross tons and still keep to the owner’s wish list, the designers focused on shaving the interior’s measurements—sometimes reducing headroom by inches on specific areas.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2023
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Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2025
What To Know The three new cruise liners, which Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri is making, will weigh in at a whopping 230,000 gross tons each.
—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
The wooden steamship — which measured 95 feet and weighed 82 gross tons — was built in 1873 in Stockton, New South Wales, according to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
The unnamed Wish-class ship will be 144,000 gross tons and powered by liquified natural gas.
—Megan Dubois, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
The new Carnival ships are a new class set to weigh in at nearly 230,000 gross tons.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 23 July 2024
Royal Caribbean has launched three ships over 220,000 gross tons, and says its larger ships break even at only 35% capacity.
—The Week Staff, theweek, 15 Jan. 2024
Icon of the Seas is about 15,000 gross tons larger than Wonder of the Seas, the most recent Oasis-class ship that currently sails out of Port Canaveral and is now bumped to No. 2 on the list of world’s largest cruise ships.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
To get down to an interior volume of just below 3,000 gross tons and still keep to the owner’s wish list, the designers focused on shaving the interior’s measurements—sometimes reducing headroom by inches on specific areas.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2023
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“Gross ton.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gross%20ton. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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