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	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		Hoogezand	Annika Braren		[8][9]
February	Philippines	Austal Balamban shipyard		Fjord FSTR		For Fjord Line[10][11]
6 March	Netherlands	Ferus Smit		Arklow Ace	Arklow B-series	For Arklow Shipping[12][13]
19 March	China		Haimen	Ocean Victory	Infinity-class cruise ship	For [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 [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		Leer	Arklow Wood		For Arklow Shipping[21]
10 April				Zhong Hua Fu Qiang	Ferry	For [22]
25 April	China	Hudong–Zhonghua Shipbuilding	Shanghai		Type 075 landing helicopter dock	For Chinese Navy[23]
14 May	Netherlands			Gaarden	passenger ship	For [24]
14 May	Egypt		Alexandria		Gowind-class design-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		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		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			ECO Barcelona	Grimaldi Green 5th Generation	For Grimaldi Group[35]
11 June	Italy	Fincantieri	Ancona		Venice-class cruise ship[36]	For Viking Ocean Cruises[37]
12 June	Netherlands			Arklow Archer		For Arklow Shipping[38][39]
June	China	Keppel Nantong Shipyard				For [40]
June	China			BraveWind		For [41]
June	Poland			Dresden	Fireboat	[42]
4 July	Vietnam			Via Alizé	fishing trawler	For [43]
4 July	France	Naval Group Kership	Concarneau		OPV 87 patrol vessel	For Argentine[44]
6 July	France	Naval Group Kership	Lanester		OPV 87 patrol vessel	For Argentine[45]
9 July	Germany	Lürssen		Opus	yacht	[46]
14 July	Romania	VARD Tulcea SA	Tulcea		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		Haimen	Ocean Explorer	Infinity-class cruise ship	For [49]
20 August	Italy	Fincantieri	Monfalcone	MSC Seashore	Seaside-EVO-class cruise ship	For MSC Cruises[50][51]
25 August	Netherlands		Hoogezand	Elke K.		[52][53]
28 August	Germany		Leer	Thun Blyth		[54]
31 August	China				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		ferry	For [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			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 [68]
1 October	Italy	Fincantieri	Marghera	Rotterdam		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 [72]
October	China	Wuchang Shipbuilding	Wuhan		patrol vessel	For Malaysian Navy[73]
10 November	China			(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 [77]
13 November	China				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		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				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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