VIDEO: The Azipods Used to Propel the World’s Largest Cruise Ships

Here’s a have a look at the ABB Azipod’s used to propel the most recent and largest ships in Royal Caribbean’s fleet and plenty of different vessels – each cruise ships and others – all over the world.

On Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ships, the vessels are outfitted with a tailored electrical propulsion system comprising three stern-mounted 20-megawatt (MW) Azipod propulsion items. The newer Quantum of the Seas makes use of two 20.5 MW Azipod XO2300 items, a part of ABB’s new XO line.

Azipod is definitely the registered trademark for ABB’s model of azimuth thrusters that was first launched in 1987. Today, ABB’s Azipod propulsion techniques are used on a variety of vessels corresponding to cruise ships, icebreakers, ice-going cargo vessels and offshore lodging ships.