The world's newest cruise ship, the 91,000-ton Norwegian Dawn is due to arrive in Southampton on Thursday morning, a day ahead of its original schedule.

With distinctive art-work on its hull, the latest addition to the Norwegian Cruise Line's expanding fleet will be alongside Southampton Docks until Saturday when she will depart on a transatlantic crossing to New York.

While in Southampton hundreds of representatives of the shipping and travel industries have been invited to tour the cruise ship, which will be permanently based in America.

Norwegian Dawn will be at 38/9 berth in the Eastern Docks.