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A graphic image showing the scale of the huge ship

• At 220,000 Gross Register Tonnage (GRT) Project Genesis (the ship's working title) is 40% larger than any other cruise ship in the world.
• Project Genesis is scheduled to enter service in Autumn 2009 and will be homeported year-round from Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale in Florida.
• Project Genesis is 1,180 feet long, 154 feet wide, and 240 feet high and will accommodate over 5,400 guests.
• At a cost of US$230,000/£117,484 to construct each berth, Project Genesis is the most expensive cruise ship ever to be ordered.
• Standing upright bow-to-stern, Project Genesis would dwarf the One Canada Square building at Canary Wharf and New York’s Chrysler Building. The ship is also one and a half times taller than the O2 Arena and is longer than four football pitches.
• The name of the Project Genesis ship will be announced in June 2008.
• Royal Caribbean International currently operates the largest cruise ships in the world, Freedom of the Seas and Liberty of the Seas at 160,000 GRT and 3,600 guests.
• A third ship in this Freedom-class, Independence of the Seas is currently under construction at the same ship yard as Project Genesis and will take her first ever paying guests from Southampton in May 2008.