Italy builds its largest cruise ship

An Italian engineering company says it has completed construction of the country's biggest passenger ship, the 1,000-foot-long Carnival Magic.

The company, Fincantieri, put the finishing touches on the cruise liner, built as the flagship of Carnival Cruise Lines

The Carnival Magic weighs 128,500 tons and its highest point sits 225 feet above the water has 1,845 cabins for a maximum 4,684 passengers and 746 cabins for its 1,386 crew members.

In October, the Carnival Magic is scheduled to sail to its year-round home port of Galveston, Texas, from where it will cruise the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.