Cold Ironing Cruise Ships

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Cold ironing cruise ships. Neither ship is equipped for shore power. Cold Ironing Also known as cold ironing shore power uses electrical power transmitted from a landside transformer to the vessel via four 3-inch diameter flexible electrical cables. Download from wwwcrosstreeinfo Power requirement of ships while docked in port.

According to Hapag-Lloyd Cruises the Europa 2 has been successfully using cold ironing at the Cruise Center Altona in Hamburg for the past 30 days and was able to save a total of 600 tons of. The Europa 2 has had its cold ironing connection certified by the classification society DNV GL. The new cold ironing facility allows cruise ships calling at the port to turn off the generators while receiving shoreside electrical power.

Maritime emission control shore to ship electric power. Specifically when a ship was berthing at port it did not have to continue to feed the fire and the iron engines would cool down going totally cold. For Cruise Ships while in Port COLD IRONING DOCK WATTS LCC Cruise Workshop New Orleans February 17 2004.

Hapag-Lloyd Cruises Europa 2 has had its cold ironing connection certified. By turning ship engines off while at berth and thus cutting emissions shore connection enables a considerable reduction of emissions in ports areas says Lorène Grandidier Shore Connection Strategic Marketing Manager of Schneider Electric. Namely when a ship docks it no longer needs energy for propulsion.

Cold ironing onshore power supply and shore connection refer to the same process. The use of regenerative power from these units will totally eliminate existing CO2 and pollutant emissions from vessels during lay times Hamburg First Mayor Peter Tschentscher was quoted as saying. For this and many.

In 2001 the port of Juneau in Alaska was the first in the world to offer shoreside power for cruise vessels. LTH-Baas has completed these installations for shore power or cold ironing. Plugging ships into the national grid.