Long on Luxury

摘要

A trio of cigarette-puffing dock workers casually hang their heads out of portholes, patiently guiding the 20,000-ton front section of the cruise ship Windward into the bay. The frenzied wind rocks the tentacled mass of steel while the surrounding tugboats struggle to steady it. A little tug to the right, now forward-it's a delicate operation: One swift blast of wind could drown this massive section. But Werner Lukin, managing director of Lloyd Werft shipyard, seems as confident as the dock workers. "There's no other yard in the world that has done as many ship stretchings as we have," he says.