Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ 24,344 gross ton braemar became the biggest shipo to transit the Corinth Canal, when it made a passage through the 6.4 km waterway in Greece on 9 October, the UK based company said in a statement.

The ship has a length of 195.82 metres and beam of 22.52metres. The canal is only 24 metres wide, but it has no locks and thus no maximum length limit.

The 929-guest capacity Braemar is currently sailing on a sold-out 25-night M1925 ‘Corinth Canal & Greek Islands’ cruise, which set sail from Southampton, UK on 27th September 2019.

The Corinth Canal is a waterway that separates the Greek mainland from the Peloponnese, turning it into an island. It is an important navigational route, which once allowed ships to enter the Aegean Sea. Whilst the Canal is steeped in over two millennia of history, the structure that we now know was completed and used for the first time on 28 October 1893.