Tag: cruise ships

NABU finds its criticism confirmed that cruise ships’ exhaust gases not only severely damage the environment but also harm human health. Undercover air tests on the passenger deck of a European cruise ship now unveiled high loads of health damaging ultra-fine particles in the ambient air.

Carnival Cruise Line has announced that it will reposition three of its newest and largest ships to new homeports in 2018. In September 2018 Carnival Vista will move to Galveston, Carnival Breeze will reposition to Port Canaveral and Carnival Magic will shift to Miami.

From December 2016, cruise vessels capable of accommodating more than 100 passengers and at berth in Sydney Harbour will be issued with a Direction by AMSA. The Direction will require the vessel to limit sulphur emissions by using low sulphur fuel or an alternative measure that achieves an equivalent outcome.

CLIA expects a steady pace of cruise travel interest and significant investment in the industry for 2017. CLIA also predicts the top eight cruise travel trends that will have an impact in the coming year in its recently published outlook for the cruise industry.

A new environmental awareness campaign on air pollution generated by cruise ships in the Med has been started by BirdLife Malta, NABU) and several other international partners with the ultimate goal of declaring the Mediterranean Sea as a Sulfur Emission Control Area.

The Norwegian Cruise Line has announced that it has received approval from the government of the Republic of Cuba to operate cruises to Cuba, beginning March 2017. All three of the company's brands will offer U.S. travelers the opportunity to visit the culturally and historically rich country on select sailings starting next year.

The keel laying ceremony of "Seabourn Ovation", the second of two ultra-luxury cruise ships that Fincantieri is building, took place at the Sestri Ponenteshipyard. "Seabourn Ovation”, as its sister ship, is a particularly innovative project, focused on energy optimisation and minimum environmental impact.

Wärtsilä has recently announced the development of a complete offering for handling dry waste in cruise ships, which complements the company’s portfolio for handling wet waste, thus providing a total waste management offering.

The Norwegian explorer cruise line, Hurtigruten, is to build two new expedition ships using a new and environmentally sustainable hybrid technology from Rolls-Royce making fully electric propulsion on a passenger ship possible.

Silverstream Technologies has signed a contract with a major cruise line to retrofit its air lubrication technology on one of its vessels in 2017. The cruise line that have signed the contract with Silvertream has not been revealed.