Cruise company, Carnival Corporation, announced that the second and last engine room module for AIDAnova, which was manufactured by the Neptun shipyard in Rostock Warnemünde, will be sent to the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg.
The second floating part, a Floating Engine Room Unit (FERU), is 120 meters long and 42 meters wide.
The four-deck-tall component contains the three LNG tanks for the LNG-powered AIDAnova. Two of the tanks are both just shy of 35 meters in length, have a diameter of eight meters and a volume capacity of 1,550 m3 each.
A third and smaller tank with a diameter of five meters is 28 meters in length and has a volume capacity of approx. 520 m³.
More than 500 shipyard workers and 500 external employees from other service providers are currently employed at the Neptun shipyard. In addition, there are 120 Caterpillar employees who assembled the engines, the company said.
Following the completion of the last engine room module, AIDA is set to start its premier season, which will begin on December 2, 2018.
AIDAnova is the world’s first cruise ship that, because of its four dual-fuel engines, can be operated both in port and at sea with LNG and will begin its first season as it leaves Hamburg and sets sail for the Canary Islands.
Its twin ship with over 180,000 GT and 2,600 staterooms is set to be commissioned in the spring of 2021.
In September, the first Floating Engine Room Unit for the LNG-powered AIDAnova has been released into the water for the first time, at the Neptun shipyard in Rostock.
