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Royal Caribbean Takes Delivery of Symphony of the Seas
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE8.5 years agoRoyal Caribbean Press Center reported official delivery from STX France on March 23, 2018.[1]Symphony of the Seas, then the world's largest cruise ship, was officially delivered to Royal Caribbean International at the STX France shipyard in Saint-Nazaire.0.63Icon of the Seas Enters Service as World's Largest Cruise Ship
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE2.7 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "She entered service on 27 January 2024 out of the Port of Miami in the United States."Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship ever built, entered service out of Miami after roughly two and a half years of construction in Finland.0.62Faroe Islands Open the Sandoy Undersea Tunnel
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CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE2.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the Sandoyartunnilin tunnel opened on 21st December 2023."The Faroe Islands opened the Sandoyartunnilin, an 10.8km subsea tunnel linking Streymoy to the island of Sandoy, replacing a ferry crossing that could take an hour or more.kr 260M0.61TT-Line's Ferry Peter Pan Returns to Service After a 30-Meter Lengthening
ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCE8.7 years agoShippax[3] and Ferry Shipping News[2] report the lengthening ran from early 2018 with a return to service expected by late February 2018; no single exact redelivery date is published.German Dry Docks in Bremerhaven cut the 2001-built ro-pax ferry Peter Pan in two and inserted a prefabricated 30-meter midship section, stretching her from 190 to 220 meters for TT-Line.0.61Oasis of the Seas Departs on Her Maiden Voyage From Port Everglades
CONFIRMED91% CONFIDENCE16.8 years agoWikipedia[2] and contemporary cruise-industry coverage agree Oasis of the Seas departed Port Everglades on her maiden voyage on December 5, 2009.At over 360 meters long and 225,282 gross tons, Oasis of the Seas was the largest passenger ship ever built when she left Port Everglades on December 5, 2009. Built by STX Europe in Turku, Finland, for Royal Caribbean International, she introduced the industry's first open-air "neighborhood" ship design.0.61SEA Gateway Project Completes at Seattle-Tacoma's Main Terminal
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE238 days agoThe Port of Seattle's 28 January 2026 release is headlined "SEA Airport and Alaska Airlines Celebrate Completion of SEA Gateway Project".[1]The rebuild of the north end of SEA's main terminal added the airport's first at-scale automated bag drops, a redesigned Checkpoint 6, a new Bridge Level check-in, upgraded baggage claim devices and eight major public art installations. The Port of Seattle and Alaska Airlines marked the finish of major construction, the first of a run of Upgrade SEA projects due to complete before the summer's international soccer tournament.$546M0.60The Houston Ship Channel's Project 11 Widening Finishes
ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsPort Houston's project page describes "expediting the process to complete the work in 2029", a year rather than a day, so it sits at the end of that year.[1]Project 11 widens the channel by 170 feet along its Galveston Bay reach, from 530 to 700 feet, and deepens upstream segments to 46.5 feet so the largest container ships can pass one another. Dredging began in 2022; Port Houston finished its own segments in October 2025 and the US Army Corps of Engineers is completing the rest, with the spoil building bird islands, marsh and oyster reef.0.60Pudong Airport Starts Building Terminal 3
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.8 years agoThe Shanghai[1] government's English news page reports that "Shanghai Pudong International Airport began the construction of its Terminal 3 on Nov 20".Terminal 3 broke ground south of the existing terminals as the centrepiece of Pudong's phase-IV expansion, designed for 50 million passenger trips a year. When the programme is finished the airport will have three terminals, one satellite terminal and four runways, with terminal floor space above 1.7 million square metres.0.60Construction Begins on Frankfurt Airport's €4 Billion Terminal 3
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE11.0 years agoFraport's[2] own Terminal 3 press kit states 'the groundbreaking ceremony for Terminal 3 took place on October 5, 2015.'Fraport broke ground on Terminal 3, a roughly €4 billion expansion of Frankfurt Airport that would add three passenger piers and a 69-meter control tower.0.60Port of Melbourne Finishes Swanson Dock Rail Overhaul
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE2.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "completed earlier in 2024 and took around two years".A two-year, AUD $125M rail overhaul at Melbourne's Swanson Dock wrapped up, adding a new terminal so more shipping containers move by train instead of truck.A$125M0.60Port Waratah Begins Shiploader 7.09 Overhaul at Kooragang Terminal
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoPort Waratah's 6 May 2025 news release states the four-month refurbishment outage on Shiploader 7.09 began in July 2025.[1]Port Waratah Coal Services took Shiploader 7.09 offline for a four-month overhaul at its Kooragang Coal Terminal, fitting a new seven-metre loading chute and trimmer flap. The refurbishment is part of a $270 million program to modernise the Newcastle coal export terminal.0.59Crystal Serenity Enters Service as Crystal Cruises' New Flagship
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE23.2 years agoWikipedia's[2] Crystal Serenity article gives 3 July 2003 as the christening date (by Julie Andrews) and 7 July 2003 as the ship's entry into service.Built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France, the 68,870-ton Crystal Serenity was christened by Julie Andrews on 3 July 2003 and entered commercial service four days later.0.59
