Disney Cruise Line has completed its first journey with Disney Treasure, undertaking the notorious route down the Ems River from the Meyer Werft shipyard into the open ocean for the first time.
The passage from Meyer Werft’s inland shipyard in Papenburg into the Netherlands and onward to the open sea is always a marvel of engineering and navigation as enormous cruise ships tiptoe along a river barely wide enough to contain it before reaching the Dollart Bay and Wadden Sea.
Along its journey, spectators lined the riverbank to see the latest Disney Cruise Line vessel pass on its way to Eemshaven.
The ship will now undergo a series of sea trials with Captain Marco at the helm ahead of its formal handover to Disney Cruise Line and trans-Atlantic crossing to its Port Canaveral home port.
Disney Treasure is the sixth ship in the Disney Cruise Line fleet, with Meyer Werft engaged to deliver seven more ships for the line over the next seven years including Global Dream, which was acquired two years ago and renamed Disney Adventure, to be based in Singapore.
Also among these is a licensed Disney Cruise Line ship being built for Japan’s Oriental Land Co, which will operate the ship from early 2029 and sail itineraries around Japan.
