Industry News
Carnival Corp invests in waste digesters
Carnival Corp has contracted BioHiTech Global to install digesters and data analytics on several ships, with an option to fit several more. BioHiTech will provide each ship with multiple revolution series digesters, as well as ongoing cloud-based data [Read more...]
Lindblad claims first self-disinfecting fleet
Lindblad Expeditions now operates the first self-disenfecting fleet in the cruise industry, the company claimed. The cruise and tour company is implementing Premium Purity fleetwide, a cleaning system, which creates a cleaner, healthier ship while drastically reducing the [Read more...]
Princess strengthens satcoms tie-up
Princess Cruises is to host a series of events this year to demonstrate its global connectivity. The company will become the first cruise ship fleet with early access to SES’ O3b mPOWER network augmenting the proprietary Princess MedallionClass [Read more...]
Batteries and fuel cells for Norwegian coastal cruise route ship
Norwegian Electric Systems (NES) is involved in a project to bring zero emissions in the Norwegian World Heritage Fjords and along parts of the Norwegian coastal route. NES is looking at combining batteries and hydrogen fuel cells on [Read more...]
Report slams LNG as a fuel
A report from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) claimed that the LNG fuelled ships engines, particularly in cruise ships, emit between 70% and 82% more life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the short-term compared to clean [Read more...]
GPH buys remaining Malaga concession
Global Ports Holding’s (GPH) joint venture, Creuers Del Port de Barcelona (Creuers), has bought the remaining shares of Malaga Cruise Port concession for €1.5 mill. GPH holds a 62% stake in Creuers, with the remaining share owned by [Read more...]
Aranui reveals new cruise ship project
Aranui Cruises (Compagnie Polynesienne de Transport Maritime (CPTM)) revealed details of a new 280-pax cruise ship to Tahitian media recently. She will be the company’s first dedicated leisure cruise vessel and will join the pax/cargo vessel ‘Aranui 5’ [Read more...]
Three CMV ships dock at Amsterdam repair facilities
In five weeks during November and into December, Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam (DSAm) completed extensive annual repair and maintenance programmes on three cruises ships ahead of their winter season. These were the Cruise and Maritime Voyages (CMV) operated ‘Magellan’, [Read more...]
Ropax contracts bring success to Lean Marine
The ropax sector has driven Lean Marine’s increase in sales of its proprietary FuelOpt system last year. Sales surpassed those achieved in previous years, indicating a sharp uptake in demand for the propulsion optimization technology based on repeat [Read more...]
Hapag-Lloyd moves in with RCCL
TUI’s Hapag-Lloyd Cruises brand is to be integrated into the TUI Cruises joint venture with Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCCL), a structure that was established in 2008. By adopting this strategy, TUI Group and RCCL will further develop their [Read more...]