DFDS unveils world’s largest LEGO ferry for European Shipping Week

The world’s largest ferry – and indeed ship – ever to have been made out of LEGO has been unveiled courtesy of DFDS as part of European Shipping Week.

DFDS built the giant plastic vessel, dubbed Jubilee Seaways, with over one million individual LEGO bricks. It will stand in its protective open container outside the Brussels hotel where the main conference will be held – the Steigenberger Wiltcher’s – before being displayed for the rest of European Shipping Week outside the European Parliament.

According to DFDS, the ship was constructed to celebrate the company's 150th anniversary. Modelled after one of DFDS' ferries, over 7,000 employees worked on the construction by assembling thousands of bricks made of 45 individual LEGO pieces.

Over 350 leaders from shipping and across the regulatory and political sectors will attend the ESW flagship conference. Under an overarching theme of: Delivering Global Competitiveness, Quality and Sustainability, the conference will focus on key issues facing shipping today.