Oasis of the Seas, one of the two 226,000 gross ton giants of Royal Caribbean International, will reportedly make at least one cruise in the Mediterranean in the autumn of 2014, an Italian cruise industry source says.

The ship is due to call in Civitavecchia in Italy on 16 September 2014, where it will arrive from Barcelona. It will sail on to Naples.

The ship will come to Europe for dry docking, the source continued. Oasis of the Seas was built in 2009 and ships need to undergo a special survey that includes dry docking every five years.