How Many Gallons Of Fuel Does A Cruise Ship Hold

To illustrate Celebrity Eclipse gets 56 feet to the gallon.

How many gallons of fuel does a cruise ship hold. Holland Americas Zuiderdam gets 0129 miles per gallon or looked at a bit differently 34 tons of fuel per mile traveled. My ship burns about 1200 tons of fuel every 7 day cruise. Windstar a cruise company claims that their ships move between thirty to sixty feet per gallon this is highly unlikely to be precise even at tick over a ships engine burns tons per hour.

Answer 1 of 2. The fuel used by cruise ship may vary depending on the climate and the load carried by the ship itself. Last year the bunker fuel we use cost about 300 per ton.

The average price for a litre of diesel to fill up your car at least according to a quick Google search is 133 I dont drive so dont quote me on that. An example of the large types is the Queen Mary 2. With a total fuel capacity of 57285 gallons the 747-400 has a gas mileage of about 015 mpg.

You work out the math. Large cruise ship 9001100 feet. We carry around 3000 passengers every week.

Simply so do cruise ships have enough lifeboats for all passengers. Put another way on just one gallon of fuel the ship travels 00096 miles. Cruise ships dont burn gallons of fuel - they burn TONS of fuel.

Cruise ships dont burn gallons of fuel - they burn TONS of fuel. Ships in that size range can carry between 25 million and 35 million gallons of fuel. In a cruise ship they may use upto 100s of gallons per hour.