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F ounded in 1795, the Meyer Werft Meyer Werft and Royal Caribbean ships. According to schedule, the ship is ex- GmbH shipyard in Papenburg, Ger- signed a contract for building a new class pected to be ready by late autumn of 2014. many, has been responsible for building of cruise ship on 11 February, 2011. Code In early 2012, Royal Caribbean approximately 700 ships in total in its first named ’Project Sunshine’ in the early stag- Cruises Ltd. ordered a second ship of the two centuries of operation. At present, the es, the ship was later named ’Quantum of same type for the Quantum cruise-ship shipyard is one of the largest in the world. the Seas’ – the first of the Quantum class class. This second ship was named ’An- 14 seatec 1/2014