List of ship launches in 2020

This is a chronological list of ships launched or scheduled to be launched in 2020.

Date Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes
18 January  South Korea Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering HMM Copenhagen HMM Algeciras-class container ship For Hyundai Merchant Marine[1]
19 January  United States Marinette Marine USS Cooperstown Freedom-class littoral combat ship For United States Navy
21 January  Germany Schacht-Audorf Lürssen Project Hawaii yacht [2][3][4]
24 January  Finland Meyer Turku Turku Mardi Gras XL-class cruise ship For Carnival Cruise Line[5]
4 February  Australia Austal Henderson Bajamar Express high-speed-trimaran For Fred. Olsen Express[6]
11 February  Spain Freire Vigo Belgica [7]
14 February  Germany Meyer Werft Papenburg Iona Excellence-class cruise ship For P&O Cruises
14 February  Netherlands Royal Bodewes Hoogezand Annika Braren [8][9]
February  Philippines Austal Balamban shipyard Fjord FSTR For Fjord Line[10][11]
6 March  Netherlands Ferus Smit Westerbroek Arklow Ace Arklow B-series For Arklow Shipping[12][13]
19 March  China China Merchants Heavy Industry Haimen Ocean Victory Infinity-class cruise ship For SunStone Ships[14]
25 March  South Korea Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries CMA CGM Tenere LNG-powered container ship[15][16] For CMA CGM
27 March  Russia Admiralty Shipyard Saint Petersburg Kapitan Vdovichenko trawler For Russian Fishery Company[17][18]
March  Poland Remontowa Gdańsk ferry for Norled[19]
March  Romania VARD Tulcea Le Commandant Charcot Icebreaker For Compagnie du Ponant[20]
3 April  Germany Ferus Smit Leer Arklow Wood For Arklow Shipping[21]
10 April Huanghai Shipbuilding Zhong Hua Fu Qiang Ferry For Bohai Ferry[22]
25 April  China Hudong–Zhonghua Shipbuilding Shanghai Type 075 landing helicopter dock For Chinese Navy[23]
14 May  Netherlands Holland Shipyards Gaarden passenger ship For Schlepp- und Fährgesellschaft Kiel[24]
14 May  Egypt Alexandria Gowind-class corvette For Egyptian Navy[25]
15 May  Netherlands Royal IHC Krimpen a/d IJssel Mohab Mameesh cutter suction dredge For Suez Canal Authority[26]
16 May  Croatia Brodosplit Ultramarine cruise ship For Quark Expeditions[27]
20 May  Netherlands Royal Bodewes Hoogezand Heike Lehmann [28][29][30]
20 May  Italy Fincantieri Genoa Valiant Lady cruise ship For Virgin Voyages[31]
20 May  China AVIC-Weihai Côte d’Opale E-Flexer-Klasse For Stena RoRo[32]
25 May  France Brest Arsenal Brest Pontoon boat For Defence Infrastructure Service[33]
26 May  Germany Lürssen Rendsburg yacht [34]
May  China Nanjing Jinling Shipyard ECO Barcelona Grimaldi Green 5th Generation For Grimaldi Group[35]
11 June  Italy Fincantieri Ancona Viking Venus Venice-class cruise ship[36] For Viking Ocean Cruises[37]
12 June  Netherlands Ferus Smit Westerbroek Arklow Archer For Arklow Shipping[38][39]
June  China Keppel Nantong Shipyard LNG Bunkering Vessel For FueLNG[40]
June  China BraveWind For United Wind Logistics[41]
June  Poland Dresden Fireboat [42]
4 July  Vietnam Piriou Vietnam Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville Via Alizé fishing trawler For Saupiquet[43]
4 July  France Naval Group
Piriou
Kership
Concarneau OPV 87 patrol vessel For Argentine[44]
6 July  France Naval Group
Piriou
Kership
Lanester OPV 87 patrol vessel For Argentine[45]
9 July  Germany Lürssen Opus yacht [46]
14 July  Romania VARD Tulcea SA Tulcea Hanseatic Spirit Expedition-class cruise ship For Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten[47]
24 July  Germany Meyer Werft Papenburg Spirit of Adventure cruise ship For Saga Cruises[48]
12 August  China China Merchants Heavy Industry Haimen Ocean Explorer Infinity-class cruise ship For SunStone Ships[49]
20 August  Italy Fincantieri Monfalcone MSC Seashore Seaside-EVO-class cruise ship For MSC Cruises[50][51]
25 August  Netherlands Royal Bodewes Hoogezand Elke K. [52][53]
28 August  Germany Ferus Smit Leer Thun Blyth [54]
31 August  China Guangzhou Shipbuilding International RoPax-ferry For DFDS Seaways[55][56]
5 September  France Chantiers de l’Atlantique Saint Nazaire Wonder of the Seas Oasis-class cruise ship For Royal Caribbean International[57][58]
6 September  Turkey Tersan shipyard Havila Castor For Havila Shipping/Hurtigruten[59][60]
6 September  Turkey Tersan shipyard Havila Capella For Havila Shipping/Hurtigruten[61][62]
11 September  Finland Rauma Marine Constructions Rauma Aurora Botnia ferry For Wasaline[63]
18 September  Spain Armon Gijón Eleanor Roosevelt LNG-fueled fast ferry For Baleària[64]
21 September  Turkey Cemre Shipyard Wind of Hope offshore supply vessel For Louis Dreyfus Armateurs[65]
24 September  France Ocea Les Sables-d’Olonne Lana type OSV 190 SC-WB For Nigerian Navy[66]
September  Italy Fincantieri Muggiano Musherib patrol vessel For Qatar Armed Forces[67]
September  Vietnam VARD Coral Geographer expedition cruise ship For Coral Expeditions[68]
1 October  Italy Fincantieri Marghera Rotterdam Pinnacle-class cruise ship For Holland America Line[69]
14 October  Japan Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe JS Taigei Taigei-class submarine For Japanese Navy
31 October  United States Marinette Marine USS Marinette Freedom-class littoral combat ship For United States Navy[70]
October  China Tianjin Xingang Global Mercy Hospital ship For Mercy Ships[71]
October  Portugal WestSea Viana Shipyard World Navigator cruise ship For Atlas Voyages[72]
October  China Wuchang Shipbuilding Wuhan patrol vessel For Malaysian Navy[73]
10 November  China Jinling Shipyard (Peter Pan) Green Ship-class ferry For TT-Line[74][75]
13 November  France Naval Group Morbihan Lorraine Aquitane-class frigate [76]
13 November  Netherlands Düsternbrook passenger ferry For Schlepp- und Fährgesellschaft Kiel[77]
13 November  China Guangzhou Shipbuilding International RoPax-ferry For DFDS Seaways[78][79][80][81]
19 November  Japan Mitsui E&S Tamano JS Kumano Mogami-class frigate For Japanese Navy[82]
28 November  Germany Meyer Werft Papenburg Odyssey of the Seas Quantum-class cruise ship For Royal Caribbean International[83]
November  United States Chesapeake Shipbuilding Salisbury, Maryland American Melody Cruise ship For American Cruise Lines[84]
11 December  Brazil Itaguaí Construções Navais Humaitá Scorpène-class submarine For Brazilian Navy[85]
16 December  China Wuchang Shipbuilding Whuan patrol vessel For Malaysian Navy[86]
18 December  Russia Chantiers de l’Amirauté Saint-Pétersbourg Severny Polyus [87][88]
22 December  Romania VARD Tulcea Viking Octantis Expedition vessel For Viking Cruises[89][90]
30 December  China ZPMC JDS 6000 Ulstein SOC 5000-type [91]
December  Vietnam Halong Shipbuilding Emerald Azzura Cruise ship For Emerald Cruises[92]
December  Poland Remontowa Shipbuilding Gdansk Salish class-ferry For BC Ferries[93][94][95][96]

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