Lng Powered Cruise Ships
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Lng powered cruise ships. Hurtigruten also plans to utilize a custom-built bunkering vessel in Bergen to fuel these ships with. MSC Cruises LNG powered vessels will be amongst the most technologically advanced cruise ships in the world bringing a range of environmental innovations to the market. Chief amongst these is a 50-kilowatt LNG-powered solid oxide fuel cell technology project that offers a potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a further 25 compared to a conventional LNG engine.
The cruise liners first LNG-powered cruise ship is to enter service in 2022. Due to begin cruising around the Canary Islands in December 2018 the AIDAnova will be the first cruise ship in the world able to operate in ports and at sea powered by LNG fuel. The most commonly used liquefied natural gas LNG engine used by cruise ships and cargo vessels today emits as much as 82 percent more greenhouse gas over the short-term compared to.
-Hurtigruten a Norwegian expedition cruise operator has several LNG-powered ships on order. In December Carnival Cruise Line took delivery of AIDAnova the first LNG-powered cruise ship. The first LNG-powered vessel is scheduled for delivery in 2022.
Total also will bunker the ships sailing on Mediterranean routes by ship-to-ship transfer. In 2020 two more Carnival brands will get LNG power with newbuilds for the PO and Carnival brands followed by two more ships in 2021 for Costa and AIDA respectively. Built at Meyer and Neptun Shipyards in Germany and Meyer Turku in Finland AIDAnova is the first of a new generation of LNG Powered Cruise Ships for Carnival.
LNG bunkering will take place in Marseille France. It has been Designed by Wärtsila Ship Design. Steel was cut today for MSC Cruises newly named first World Class newbuild.
Under the agreement Shell will supply LNG for the worlds first LNG-powered cruise ships due to start sailing in northwest Europe and the Mediterranean in 2019. LNG-powered ships for Carnival Cruise Line and PO Cruises UK will follow in 2020. LNG newbuilds on order will either be built at Meyer Werft in Germany or Meyer Turku in Finland.
