That boxy new ship one sees while driving across the McArthur Causeway between Miami and Miami Beach? It's the 5,119-passenger MSC Seaside, the newest vessel from the European cruise line MSC. It joins 3,502-passenger Divina, which arrived in 2013, and a half-dozen others that MSC will bring to North America by 2020. (Three of those will be in Miami year 'round.) The 10 ships now on order amount to a $12 billion investment.
We toured the ship just after it arrived. Along with a few first-at-sea features, we found others executed in interesting ways. (We didn't sail, so we can't comment on service or food.) These notable features have brought it to the top of this year's awards lists for new ships.
