At midday on May 27, China's second domestically built large cruise ship, Adora Flora City, steadily docked at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding's No. 5 berth, escorted by multiple tugboats. After enduring 12 days and 11 nights of rigorous testing, all 149 sea trial items passed verification in a single attempt. Industry insiders say the triumphant return of Adora Flora City from sea trials marks the official entry of China's cruise industry into a mode of batch construction, with the autonomous and controllable capability of the industrial chain continuously strengthening.

During these trials, Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding innovatively broke with industry convention by compressing the verification tasks—which for the first vessel required two separate trials totaling 14 days—into a single completion. A total of 937 engineering and technical personnel from 12 countries embarked on the voyage, with the shipyard, owner, classification society, contractors, and service providers coordinating efficiently across five parties, and three daily coordination meetings ensuring "problems were not carried forward, and decisions were made overnight."

The trial team successfully tackled core challenging items including the main propulsion system, ship manoeuvrability, speed endurance, whole-vessel vibration and noise, unattended machinery space operations, and rescue boat deployment. All 45 commissioning procedures and 149 test items were 100% completed, with the vessel's manoeuvrability, automation level, safety, comfort, and emission indicators receiving comprehensive high-standard verification.

Adora Flora City is larger and more complex than its predecessor, yet construction efficiency has actually improved by 20%. Behind this lies the deep empowerment of digital and intelligent technologies across the entire process: AR augmented reality enables virtual-physical comparison; cable visualization laying software pushes lightweight models to mobile devices in real time; an intelligent warehousing system achieves full-process digitalization of material management; and the new-generation shipbuilding cloud platform SWS-TIME breaks down the digital barriers between design, production, warehousing, and project management.

Following the completion of sea trials, the second domestically built large cruise ship will progressively advance through zone completion and system completion, and undergo project inspection and acceptance by the owner. Delivery is scheduled for November this year. After delivery, the vessel will commence its maiden season from the Guangzhou Nansha International Cruise Terminal.