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As of June 2020, the largest cruise ship, Symphony of the Seas (pictured), has a gross tonnage (GT) of 228,081, is 361 metres (1,184 ft) long, 65.7 metres (216 ft) wide, and holds up to 6,680 passengers. Cruise ships can carry thousands of passengers in a single trip, and are some of the largest ships in the world by GT, bigger than many cargo ships. Cruise ships started to exceed ocean liners in size and capacity in the mid-1990s; before then, few were more than 50,000 GT. In the decades since, the size of the largest vessels has more than doubled. There have been nine or more new cruise ships added every year since 2001, most of which are 100,000 GT or greater. In the two decades between 1988 and 2009, the largest cruise ships grew a third longer (268 to 360 m [879 to 1,181 ft]), almost doubled their widths (32.2 to 60.5 m [106 to 198 ft]), doubled the total passengers (2,744 to 5,400), and tripled in volume (73,000 GT to 225,000 GT). (Full list...)