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Rotten Fish to Help Power Hurtigruten Expedition Ships After Refit

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October 24, 2022
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Rotten Fish to Help Power Hurtigruten Expedition Ships After Refit

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By Ole Petter Skonnord OSLO, Nov 16 (Reuters)– The Nordic area’s most prominent cruise ship fleet driver is renovating its ships to make them much less contaminating, as well as prepares to utilize a by-product of rotten fish to assist power their brand-new, leaner engines.

Norway’s Hurtigruten, best understood for the ships that shuttle travelers along the nation’s arms as well as shoreline as well as up right into the Arctic, is spending 7 billion crowns ($ 826 million) over 3 years to adjust its 17-strong fleet.

Six of its older vessels will certainly be retrofitted to operate on a mix of dissolved gas (LNG), electrical batteries as well as dissolved biography gas (LBG).

“We are talking about an energy source (LBG) from organic waste, which would otherwise have gone up in the air. This is waste material from dead fish, from agriculture and forestry,” Hurtigruten CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Daniel Skjeldam informed Reuters in a meeting.

“Our main aim is to improve and cut emissions,” he claimed.

Hurtigruten, likewise the globe’s most significant exploration cruise ship driver to locations consisting of Antarctica, Svalbard as well as Greenland, is likewise getting 3 brand-new ships that will certainly operate on electrical power, with a diesel motor just as back-up.

The delivery industry is dealing with harder global laws, consisting of cuts in carbon dioxide discharges by at the very least half by 2050 compared to 2008 degrees, as well as a restriction on gas with sulfur material over 0.5 percent from 2020 versus 3.5 percent currently.

Hurtigruten wishes to be carbon neutral by 2050.

“We definitely have to be there in 2050 as a company and the cruise industry must definitely have to come a long way as well,” claimed Skjeldam.

Two of the electrical battery-powered ships, setting you back over 150 million euros each, are currently unfinished while Hurtigruten has a letter of intent for a 3rd.

That will certainly assist Hurtigruten market itself as an environment-friendly cruise ship business– particularly beneficial provided the at risk eco-systems its ships cruise via.

“The changes in the Arctic over the past 20-30 years are not caused by carbon dioxide emissions in the Arctic, but you can see the effects of the emissions elsewhere in the world first in the Arctic,” Skjeldam claimed.

“Our crews have seen glaciers retreat and plastic waste on beaches where they land.”

($ 1 = 8.4756 Norwegian crowns) (Editing by Gwladys Fouche as well as John Stonestreet)

( c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2018.

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