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Floating City Freedom Ship

30.06.2002

Norman Nixon, owner of Engineering Solutions, has designed a completely unique ship, a real floating city, called the Freedom Ship.

Freedom Ship will have 55 decks, its length is over 1 km, its width is about 300 m, displacement is 2,7 million tons (for comparison: the displacement of the world's largest supertanker Jahre Viking is 565 thousand tons). The weight of the floating city is 3 billion tons.

About 70 thousand people will be permanently on board, of which 50 thousand are islanders who own real estate on the ship, and 20-25 thousand personnel, including security services and a small army. In addition, tourists will live in hotels on board. The cost of the project is 9 billion dollars, and 22 million dollars have already been allocated for equipping the construction site alone. To date, 20 thousand residential apartments have already been sold, each costing from 80 thousand to 6 million pounds.

There are at least 50 architectural and design styles for living spaces. There will be: a library, a university, computer rooms with Internet access, a hospital. Also banks, restaurants, stadiums, casinos, courts, swimming pools, hotels, several light and processing industries and an airport. 200 acres of land allocated for parks and gardens. The floating island will make round-the-world cruises every two years, call at ports where local residents will board.

The floating island will be far more environmentally friendly than any other vessel in existence. To do this, the ship will use high-tech toilets that process wastewater. The ship will recycle paper, glass, metal and plastic. Materials not available for recycling will be incinerated and the energy from the combustion will be used to run generators.

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