First Homegrown Cruise Ship Goes Floating In Shanghai

China's first homegrown cruise ship H1508 conducted a floating on Dec. 17 in the shipyard at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., Ltd, a huge milestone step in the vessel's construction before its delivery in Sep. 2023.

H1508, a 135,500-metric-ton Vista-class vessel, with a total length of 323.6 meters and a width of 37.2 meters. It can accommodate a maximum passenger capacity of 5,246 passengers and a total of 2,125 pax cabins.

Using about 12,260 tons of steel, the construction of the ship found abundant residual stress throughout the process of assembly and welding. Those stresses needed to be released by floating to avoid distortion of the vessels' structure and to protect the follow-up interior decoration. The floating of the vessel indicates the ship has officially entered the second-half phase of interior decoration and system debugging.

Haijing currently has abt. 150 employees working on the ship. The work includes: the insulation installation of the whole ship, catering area installation work and the installation work of 1/4 cabins of whole ship. As a local ship and offshore interior decoration supplier, Haijing is making a contribution to the development of China's cruise industry with its own practical actions!