The world's largest cruise ship "Allure of the Seas," built in Finnish Turku Shipyard, left Turku on Friday and proceeded directly to Florida Fort Lauderdale of the United States.

The "Allure of the Seas" is an architectural fantasy on the sea. It is 361-meters long, 66-meters wide, 72-meters high above the water, and its gross tonnage is up to 225,000 tons. There are altogether 16 decks and 2,704 passenger cabins in the vessel, which maximum capacity is 6,360 passengers and a crew of 2,100.

The "Allure of the Seas" seems like a large-scale maze. There are many facilities as the same as cities on land in the creative cruise ship. The designers implanted the concept of "community" to the ship, and divided it into 7 theme zones, such as catering, entertainment, fitness, leisure life, etc. Different kinds of people at different ages can possibly choose their own activity zone they prefer, as the same as living in cities.

The "Allure of the Seas" seems like a moving city on the sea. In addition to provide people with dining, leisure, sport and entertainment activities, a large amount of waste in the vessel also needs to be treated. Environmental protection and cutting down emissions have become the principle goals for designing and building this cruise ship. In terms of energy efficiency, "Allure of the Seas" consumes far less energy per passenger than smaller ships of the same type.

The cruise ship used the latest available technology to reduce air, water and other aspects of emissions and equipped with very advanced sewage treatment system, in order to treat all the water to fulfill required binding quality before discharging into the ocean.

The "Allure of the Seas" will take 13 days to sail to its home base of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale. The ship's first cruise, a seven-night jaunt to the Caribbean, starts Dec.5.

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