MSC World America
MSC Cruises · Cruise · In service · built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique
The second World-class ship and the biggest MSC has ever operated, MSC World America took the LNG-powered World platform to Miami and aimed it directly at the Icon and Oasis classes.
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How big is it, really?
The MSC World America's length overall, against things you already know the size of.
The 747-8 held the longest-airliner record for over a decade, until Boeing's 777-9 took it by about 19 inches (76.72 m) — our sibling site aircraft.fyi measures everything that flies the same way.
One MSC World America = 1.24 Titanics · 3.2 football pitches · 13 blue whales · 4.4 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.
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The numbers
| Length overall | 333.3 m |
|---|---|
| Beam | 47 m |
| Gross tonnage | 216,638 GT |
| Passengers | ≈5,240 (double) / 6,762 (max) |
| Crew | ≈2,138 |
| Decks | 22 |
| Propulsion | LNG dual-fuel |
| Delivered | 2025 |
| Homeport | PortMiami, Florida |
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What makes it different
MSC World America is the point at which MSC stopped being a European line with American itineraries and became a genuine competitor on Royal Caribbean's home water. At 216,638 gross tons she is the largest ship the company has ever operated, marginally bigger than her sister MSC World Europa, and she was designed from the keel up for Miami rather than the Mediterranean.
The World-class platform carries over intact: the near-vertical bow, the Y-shaped stern that opens the aft decks into a terraced amphitheatre, twenty-two decks, and LNG dual-fuel propulsion. What changed is the interior logic — seven districts rather than a single spine, a family district with its own pools, and an expanded Yacht Club ship-within-a-ship at the bow.
She matters commercially more than she does technically. Icon of the Seas and the Oasis class had the Caribbean mega-ship market largely to themselves; World America is the first non-Royal ship built at that scale specifically to contest it, and the eight-ship World-class order behind her signals MSC intends to keep contesting it into the 2030s.
The MSC World America line
World class
Who operates the MSC World America
All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.
MSCCMSC CruisesYear-round Caribbean itineraries from PortMiami — MSC's first ship designed around the North American market.1✓→