Meyer Turku CEO Tim Meyer and TUI Cruises CEO Wybcke Meier have a good time keel laying of Mein Schiff 7, which can be ready for operation on methanol.
In one other signal of the intense consideration methanol fueling is getting within the cruise trade, TUI Cruises’ newbuild Mein Schiff 7 can be methanol prepared.
The first metal block of Mein Schiff 7 was put in place earlier this week in a keel-laying ceremony on the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland. The 315.7 meter lengthy, 2,894-passenger vessel is structurally a sister ship to Mein Schiff 1 and Mein Schiff 2, which went into service in 2018 and 2019, and is scheduled to hitch the fleet within the coming 12 months.
There can be a variety of variations in passenger areas and facilities to the sister ships — and likewise within the equipment. While the sister ships are geared up with scrubbers Mein Schiff 7 will function on low sulfur gasoline oil (sulfur content material 0.1%). In additions, says TUI Cruises, “Mein Schiff 7 will be built in such a way that it can also run on methanol, potentially green methanol, which will make the ship’s propulsion system almost CO2-neutral.”
“We are very happy that the first block of the ship could be laid as planned and look forward to the further milestones that lie ahead of us,” stated Meyer Turku CEO Tim Meyer. “With the laying of the keel, a quarter of the shipbuilding is complete.”
“The decision to prepare the Mein Schiff 7 for a methanol drive is an important investment in the future for us and an important contribution to climate-neutral cruises,” says Wybcke Meier. Furthermore, the Mein Schiff 7 can be geared up with an progressive system that shreds natural waste by means of thermal therapy and prepares it for additional use on land to be able to obtain much more environment friendly waste processing.
TUI Cruises is a three way partnership between Royal Caribbean Group and German journey firm TUI.
This will not be the Meyer Group’s solely enterprise right into a cruise ship software of methanol fueling. As we reported earlier, a brand new operation, Meyer Wismar, is at present dealing with completion of the previous Global Dream into a brand new Disney Cruises vessel. That venture will embrace changing the ship’s engines for operation on methanol.
