| IMO | 9862669 |
|---|---|
| Gross tonnage | 157,651 GT |
| Length | 333 m |
| Beam | 42 m |
| Passenger capacity (double) | 3890 |
| Passenger capacity (max) | 3984 |
| Crew | 1535 |
| Service speed | 22.0 knots |
| Builder | Fincantieri |
| Yard | Monfalcone |
| Hull number | 6313 |
| Launched | 2025 |
| Maiden voyage | 2026-06-14 |
| Class | InTUItion-class cruise ship |
| Operator | TUI Cruises |
| Status | Active |
Overview
Mein Schiff Flow is the second of TUI Cruises' InTUItion-class ships, delivered by Fincantieri at Monfalcone on 12 June 2026 — the delivery date established in this directory's dataset notes — and the ninth ship in the Mein Schiff fleet. At 157,651 GT and 333 m she is, with her sister Mein Schiff Relax, the largest class TUI Cruises has ever operated, and the InTUItion class took the German premium brand from the Meyer-built fleet of the 2010s to a new builder, a new fuel — liquefied natural gas (LNG) — and a new size class in a single two-ship order. She entered service days after delivery, welcoming her first guests on 14 June 2026, and was christened at Trieste days later under the motto of her name: "Go with the Flow."
Key specifications
The dataset records IMO 9862669, 157,651 GT, length 333 m, beam 42 m, double-occupancy capacity 3,890, maximum capacity 3,984, crew 1,535, speed 22.0 knots, Fincantieri's Monfalcone yard, hull number 6313, InTUItion class, launched 2025 and maiden voyage 2026-06-14. Delivery reporting rounds her size to "approximately 160,000 GT" and her capacity to "about 4,000 passengers" — both consistent with the dataset's precise figures, which are the registered particulars carried in the spec box. Her float-out on 30 May 2025 is the launch event behind the dataset's 2025 launch year, the same float-out convention this directory applies to her fleetmate Star Princess in this batch. No discrepancy between the dataset and the researched record was found for this hull beyond those roundings; she is the cleanest row in this group.
Design and construction
Mein Schiff Flow was built by Fincantieri at Monfalcone as hull 6313, from an order placed in July 2018 for two next-generation LNG ships based on a Fincantieri prototype designed for energy efficiency. Construction began with steel-cutting on 22 June 2022 — at which point she was known by the working name Mein Schiff 9 — followed by keel-laying in November 2024 and float-out on 30 May 2025, when the dry dock was flooded with some 130 million litres of water in a ceremony attended by TUI Cruises' chief executive and the yard's director. The InTUItion design is defined by its environmental plant as much as by its size: dual-fuel engines running on LNG or marine gas oil, prepared for bio-LNG and e-LNG as those fuels become available; catalytic converters meeting Euro 6 standards; a steam turbine recovering waste heat from the diesel generators; a shore-power connection enabling near-emission-free operation in port — about 40 per cent of operating time, per Fincantieri; and a waste-treatment system that thermally converts organic material into recyclable components. She was delivered at Monfalcone on 12 June 2026, with TUI Cruises' chief executive Wybcke Meier and Fincantieri's chairman and chief executive in attendance.
Naming, launch and maiden voyage
Floated out on 30 May 2025, she was delivered on 12 June 2026 and welcomed her first guests two days later, on 14 June 2026, on a short preview sailing from Trieste — the maiden voyage the dataset records. Her christening followed on 20 June 2026 in Trieste, and it broke the line's own conventions: for the first time in TUI Cruises' history the ship had three godmothers — Julia, Annabelle and Karin, chosen to represent different generations of the line's guests — under a naming-event theme built on her name, "Go with the Flow," with the whole ship staged as the ceremony's venue. The name itself continues the Mein Schiff pattern of short, evocative English words — Relax for her sister, Flow for this hull — where the line's earlier ships carried plain numbers.
Career by operator
| Period | Name | Operator |
|---|---|---|
| 2026–present | Mein Schiff Flow | TUI Cruises |
A career measured, at the time of writing, in months: delivery at Monfalcone on 12 June 2026, first guests on 14 June, christening at Trieste on 20 June, and a debut Mediterranean season thereafter, during which she set a size record as the largest cruise ship ever to dock at Koper, Slovenia, per the port reporting cited below. She is the ninth Mein Schiff ship in a brand that operated its first cruise in 2009 and had built every previous fleet addition as a newbuild — Flow is no exception, ordered, built and delivered for the one operator she has ever had.
Onboard character
The InTUItion class was designed around space and light for the German premium market: a high proportion of balcony cabins, extensive open deck, and indoor areas redesigned rather than enlarged versions of the Meyer-built ships' — the class traits Fincantieri and TUI documented at her sister's introduction and carried into this hull. Her defining onboard fact, though, is the one her christening staged: the ship as a single flowing event space, with the naming festival spread across decks and venues rather than concentrated on one stage — a fair emblem of the class's design intent of loose, resort-like circulation rather than the single-atrium focus of older ships. As the second hull of the class she arrived with her sister's operating lessons incorporated, in the same second-ship relationship Star Princess bears to Sun Princess elsewhere in this batch — though the two classes, and the two markets they serve, have nothing else in common.
Major refits and incidents
None are recorded, and none could be expected: Mein Schiff Flow had been in service for barely four months when this guide was written. No refit has fallen due; no incident appears in the delivery and debut reporting consulted. The milestones that stand in this section for a new ship are construction-phase ones already told above — steel-cutting in 2022 under a working number, keel-laying in 2024, float-out in 2025, delivery on schedule in June 2026 — an uneventful build for a ship of her complexity, completed at a yard Fincantieri describes as having built more than 45 cruise ships. This section will earn its content over the coming decades; for now the honest record is a clean sheet.
Sister ships and class
The InTUItion class comprises Mein Schiff Relax (delivered February 2025) and this ship, the two vessels of the 2018 Fincantieri order — the class name itself a piece of TUI wordplay on intuition. Relax preceded her by some sixteen months, and the pair are the joint-largest ships in TUI Cruises' history. The class is set to grow: in September 2025 Fincantieri and TUI Cruises signed a contract for two additional InTUItion-class sisters, for delivery in 2031 and 2032 — orders, not hulls, recorded here as the class's stated future. Within the wider fleet, the InTUItion pair sits above the seven numbered Mein Schiff ships built by Meyer Turku, and marks the brand's transfer of its newbuilding programme from Finland to Italy.
Fate and where she is now
Mein Schiff Flow is in active service with TUI Cruises — dataset status, operator, class and maiden-voyage date all confirmed by Fincantieri's delivery reporting and TUI Cruises' own naming announcement. She is the newest ship in this entire batch and one of the newest ocean cruise ships in the world: a 2026 LNG flagship at the start of a career her owners have already extended, on paper, into a four-ship class running to 2032. Her fate is simply to be what she was delivered as in June 2026 — the German premium market's largest ship, shared with one sister, with two more to come.
Sources: https://www.cruisemapper.com/ships/Mein-Schiff-Flow-1724?tab=itinerary, https://www.seatrade-cruise.com/shipbuilding-equipment/tui-cruises-takes-delivery-of-mein-schiff-flow, https://maritime-executive.com/article/fincantieri-floats-second-lng-fueled-cruise-ship-for-germany-s-tui-cruises, https://www.meinschiff.com/media/4498/50814848123472/pm_the_naming_event_of_mein_schiff_flow_engl.pdf