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LNG Fuel tank (Photo courtesy of Princess Cruises) · Two shore power connections, also known as “cold ironing,” on both the port and starboard side of the vessel to enable the ship to turn off the engines and connect to local electric power to run all onboard services during day-long...
Inside a Cruise Ship: Amenities and Jobs Cruise Ship Criticism History of Cruise Ships The Oceanic, the largest liner in the world when it was built by White Star Lines and launched in 1899, became beached in Scotland due to poor navigation. Getty Images Everyone likes to go on stea...
800. It has 6 multi-fuel Wartsila engines that can run on LNG and distillate fuel. The ship can also use fuel cells to generate electricity, becoming the first Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship to have this technology.
GHK, the bankrupt parent company that shutteredCrystal Cruisesaftertwo vessels (Serenity and Symphony) were seized for unpaid fuel bills, is now looking to sell what is being billed asthe world’s largest cruise shipbypassenger capacity.
The ship will feature an eco-friendly hybrid propulsion that substantially reduces fuel consumption and emissions, with an electric motor. In 2005, the PanStar group started a regular Busan-Osaka cruise with the PanStar Dream. It is Dae Sun Shipbuilding’s first cruise ship order, having focused...
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is becoming a viable, "green" alternative to marine fuel oil for ship propulsion. The present study investigates the expected impact on sustainability of innovative ship fuel systems based on the use of LNG. For the sake of comparison, conventional technologies for ...
Inside a Cruise Ship: Amenities and Jobs Cruise Ship Criticism History of Cruise Ships The Oceanic, the largest liner in the world when it was built by White Star Lines and launched in 1899, became beached in Scotland due to poor navigation. Getty Images Everyone likes to go on stea...
while further increase is expected in 2017. Cruise ship capacity grew by 18% from 2009 to 2013. Due to this rapid increase in growth, sustainability represents a major issue also for the cruise industry, which has moved towards the wholesale adoption of sustainable principles in its development,...
Looking at a massive cruise ship, it looks to be challenge to move the ships at almost any normal speed, so how do they do it? The secret in managing speed versus fuel efficiency is in the ship's engineering. Over the years, cruise ship design has seen improvements of the hull design...