Luxury passenger ship nearly ready for delivery

China will soon deliver a world-class ship to a Swedish company, taking another step closer to China's aspiration to becoming a supplier of high-end vessels.

State-owned China State Shipbuilding Corp said the ship, Visborg, is the world's first dual-fuel cruiseferry - a luxury passenger ship that can also handle freight and vehicles.

The company said the Visborg will be delivered to its buyer, Rederi AB Gotland, Sweden's oldest passenger line, in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, before year's end. A second cruiseferry of the same type is under construction for the same company, it noted.