Tag: cruise ships

Wärtsilä has signed a five-year Lifecycle Agreement with Royal Caribbean Group, covering 37 cruise ships, to optimise the performance, reliability and availability of the ships’ engines.

Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), released its annual Global Cruise Industry Environmental Technologies and Practices Report, showing continued progress by the sector in advancing its environmental and sustainability agenda, including investments in ships and technologies for the uptake of transitional and alternative fuels.

According to the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) the cruise ship fleet is growing both in terms of the number of ships and passenger capacity.

A coalition of NGOs, supported by 35,000 citizens, is taking legal action against the European Commission for including polluting planes and ships in the EU’s sustainable finance legislation, known as the EU Taxonomy.

According to news, Royal Caribbean International’s Odyssey of the Seas, a Quantum-Ultra class cruise ship, came to the aid of 77 migrants stranded on an overloaded sailboat in the Ionian Sea.

Today’s biggest cruise ships are twice as big as they were in 2000, a new Transport & Environment (T&E) report shows.

Malta has officially launched its shore power technology in the Grand Harbour, allowing cruise liners to connect to the local electric grid while docked, becoming the first port in the Mediterranean Sea to do so. 

The city of Amsterdam will limit the number of sea cruises that moor at the Passengers Terminal Amsterdam (PTA) from 190 to a maximum of one hundred per year from 2026 onwards.

Environmental NGOs have urged both cruise lines and ports along the Alaska cruise route to categorically reject fossil gas.

MSC Cruises has published its 2023 Sustainability Report with a performance review of the 12-month period in the areas of environment, social and governance (ESG).