Cruise and Ferry Review - Summer/Spring 2020

1 7 Carnival Corporation is piloting fuel cell systems on AIDAnova to enable her to operate with lower levels of emissions than she does currently with her LNG-powered engines Carnival Corporation is also an environmental technology trailblazer. It pioneered the use of both cold ironing capabilities for connecting ships to shore power in ports, and advanced air quality systems for significantly reducing sulphur and diesel particulate emissions. Today, almost 40% of the fleet can plug into shore power, while more than 70 ships have advanced air quality systems. In addition, the company expects to have installed scrubbers on over 85 vessels across its brands by 2020. The corporation also made history when it debuted AIDA Cruises’ AIDAnova, the first cruise ship powered by LNG at port and at sea, in December 2018. A second, Costa Smeralda, entered service with Costa Cruises’ fleet in December 2019, a third will launch as P&O Cruises’ Iona this May and a fourth will enter service as Carnival Cruise Line’s Mardi Gras this November. There are seven additional LNG-fuelled ships on order, which will be distributed between the AIDA, Carnival, Costa, Princess and P&O Cruises UK fleets and be delivered by 2025. “These pioneering technologies helped us to achieve our 2020 emission reduction targets a couple of years ahead of schedule and we’ve lowered our unit fuel consumption by almost 37% since our baseline year [2006],” comments Donald. “LNG has a much lower carbon footprint than that of other fossil fuels, but we’ll keep tracking the data to confirm whether it truly is the cleanest way to go. In addition, we’ll continue to explore the potential of alternative energy sources, such as fuel cells and hydrogen, as well as the lithium-ion batteries that we’ll begin piloting on AIDAperla in 2020.” All nine brands have also pledged to significantly reduce or eliminate single- use plastic items that are not used for sanitary or public health-related purposes by the end of 2021. And they will be minimising food waste too. “Research suggests that one third of the food produced worldwide is wasted and that if everyone were to stop doing that, we’d be able to eliminate around 8% of our total global greenhouse gas emissions,” he says. “Carnival Corporation’s brands serve millions “Excelling in safety and environmental protection and compliance has always been our highest priority” KEYNOTE