Concrete progress has been made by the cruise industry to advance its environmental and sustainability agenda. Data from the 2023 orderbook also illustrated that cruise lines continued to invest in new vessels with 44 new ships on order during the next five years, representing an [Read more...]

What is claimed to be the world’s first net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cruise ship voyage, undertaken on board MSC Cruises latest LNG-powered ’MSC Euribia’, marks a paradigm shift for cruising, the company said. This proves that net-zero emissions cruising is possible already today, significantly [Read more...]

For the second time in a row, Finnish passengers have ranked Viking Line as the most sustainable shipping company in operation between Finland and Sweden, according to the results of the Passenger Transport Ferries 2023 survey. Nearly 50% of those who completed the survey will choose even [Read more...]

A new pilot programme is introducing closed-loop packaging on board Carnival Cruise Line (CCL) ships through a collaboration with spirits company Bacardi and circular economy technology company ecoSPIRITS. The trials will determine if re-usable containers developed by ecoSPIRITS can be used to serve BACARDĺ® rum [Read more...]

Last June, the Port of Turku joined Turku’s city climate team, which has set the goal of being carbon neutral in 2029. Turku’s port has been undertaking systematic environmental work for a long time. Mitigation of climate change, as part of the carbon-neutral Turku urban [Read more...]

New stringent emission regulations (zero NOX and CO2 emissions) have recently been announced for cruise ships sailing in the Norwegian World Heritage Fjords.   They will be implemented from the 1st January, 2026.   Startup cruise company, Nice Green Ferries (NGF) claimed to have met [Read more...]

Cunard has fitted shore power connection equipment to its fleet of three ships. The cruise line’s fourth ship, ‘Queen Anne’, is set to undertake her maiden voyage in May, 2024, and will have the technology installed before she sails. Shore power technology enables berthed ships [Read more...]

Spanish energy company, Cepsa is to supply biofuels to ferry operator Naviera Armas Trasmediterránea at Algeciras. A total of 84 voyages are covered by the contract. The biofuels are produced at the San Roque Energy Park (Campo de Gibraltar, Cádiz) from agricultural waste that would [Read more...]

Danish bunker supplier, Bunker One has conducted the first bunkering of B30-blend fuel on TUI Cruises’ ‘Mein Schiff 4’, while the vessel was berthed at Aarhus, while she was on a cruise to the Svalbard islands. A gasoil blend containing 30% advanced second generation FAME was [Read more...]

MSC Cruises has published its 2022 Sustainability Report, highlighting its progress in sustainability practices through the year.   The sustainability strategy is based on the material assessment carried out in 2019 and revisited in 2021.   This process has ensured that MSC Cruises’ attention is [Read more...]