New York-listed Carnival Corporation & plc welcomed AIDA Cruises' new AIDAnova into its fleet on Wednesday as the world's first cruise vessel to be powered at sea and in port by liquefied natural gas (LNG).
“AIDAnova is a milestone for our company and the entire cruise industry,” said Michael Thamm, group CEO of Carnival Corporation's Costa Group – which includes AIDA Cruises and Costa Cruises – and Carnival Asia.
“With Carnival Corporation pioneering LNG technology, we start a new era of environmentally friendly cruising. It's important now that the respective infrastructure will be further developed as more and more cruise lines are following our example.”
AIDA Cruises began investing in LNG as a propulsion technology more than 10 years ago, said Carnival Corporation.
The AIDAnova is Carnival Corporation's fourth new ship of 2018; in 2021 and 2023 two additional ships from the new AIDA Cruises generation of vessels will join the AIDA fleet, in addition to new LNG-powered ships on order for Costa Cruises, P&O Cruises in the UK, and Carnival Cruise Line and Princess Cruises in the U.S.
In total, following the launch of AIDAnova, Carnival Corporation has an additional 10 next-generation "green" cruise ships on order that will be powered by LNG in port and at sea, with expected delivery dates between 2019 and 2025.
Related: AIDAnova crew undergo LNG bunker training
Related: Carnival Corporation orders LNG-fuelled cruise newbuild
Photo credit: Carnival Corporation
Published: 13 December, 2018
Viking Energy will have a large 2MW ammonia fuel cell retrofitted, allowing it to sail solely on the clean fuel for up to 3,000 hours annually.
‘UECC's experience with LNG PCTCs has been very good and there was really no other alternative for us.’
The Huelva-based Oizmendi is able to provide LNG marine fuel, in addition to fuel oil and diesel bunkers.
Remaining LNG dual fuelled product tankers Fure Ven and Ramelia scheduled to start ops in 2019.
Two separate LNG fuel bunkering systems are designed high redundancy and flexibility in operations.
The US is only now starting to see widespread adoption of LNG as bunker fuel; a final investment decision is expected in 2H 2021 and operations to begin in 2024, it said.
Universal Alliance, BMS United, Digiland International, Goodwood Associates, Southernpec (Singapore), and Taigu Energy were involved in alleged circular fictitious trades of fuel oil during July 2015.
Bunker orders of ISO 8217:2010 spec LS 380 cSt 0.5% for Nord Gemini, Nord Titan, Ocean Rosemary, and Luzern were placed through global commodities trading and logistics house Trafigura Pte Ltd.
While Covid-19 concerns are important, Captain Rahul Choudhuri was quick to note this does not mean bunker fuel related issues have indeed disappeared from the shipping sector.
‘Therefore, representing the players of the Malaysian bunker industry, we sincerely hope that this matter can be refined and reconsidered immediately so that all parties benefit together,’ says communication.
Maureen Poh, a Director of Helmsman LLC, offers plain practical tips on the differences between US and EU Sanctions and shares some thoughts on what companies could do if they are potentially exposed to sanctioned entities.
‘We [Consort Bunkers] have the opinion that the bunker business in Singapore is not related to the widely reported earlier cargo commodity trading mishaps,’ company source tells Manifold Times.
