Lng Powered Cruise Ships
In 2022 another Carnival Cruise Line LNG ship will follow.
Lng powered cruise ships. The 200000-plus GT ship is the first such ship to be built in France and is said to be one of most technologically and environmentally advanced LNG-powered cruise vessels in its class. 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. The Mardi Gras is a liquified natural gas LNG powered ship the first of its kind in North America and is part of the cruise line operators decarbonization program.
It is also the first cruise ship to use an LNG-powered fuel cell. 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. In 2015 AIDA Cruises AIDAsol made history as the first cruise ship in the world to be supplied with power by an LNG hybrid barge while in port in Hamburg Germany.
LNG-powered ships for Carnival Cruise Line and PO Cruises UK will follow in 2020. LNG bunkering will take place in Marseille France. There are now about 20 new LNG-fuelled cruise ships on order with all the major cruise companies Carnival MSC Disney Royal Caribbean and TUI betting big on the technology.
Steel was cut today for MSC Cruises newly named first World Class newbuild. Total is to supply approximately 45000 tons of LNG per year for MSC Cruises new LNG-powered cruise ships. Chantiers de lAtlantique is poised to integrate the first LNG-powered fuel cell aboard a cruise ship MSC Europa.
Total will provide 45000 tons of LNG fuel a year for the three upcoming vessels. Costa Cruises and AIDA Cruises will each receive an additional LNG-powered ship in 2021 followed by an additional LNG-powered ship for Carnival Cruise Line in 2022. The first LNG-powered vessel is scheduled for delivery in 2022.
Anne Kalosh Oct 31 2019. This will be the first time LNG in dual-fuel engines will be used in the cruise industry to power ships both in port and at sea. Carnival Corporation is planning seven cruise ships powered by liquefied natural gas LNG.
