Carnival Corporation’s AIDAnova, run by its Germany- based AIDA Cruises brand name, today ended up being the initial LNG sustained cruise ship to go to Barcelona, Spain– and also the initial to be sustained with LNG in the Mediterranean.
On arrival in Barcelona, Europe’s largest cruise ship port, AIDAnova was sustained with LNG by Anthony Veder‘s LNG bunkering vessel Coral Methane.
Barcelona is the 2nd start-and-end location for AIDAnova’s seven-day cruise ships in theMediterranean With Carnival Corporation’s collaboration with Shell Western LNG B.V. (Shell), the cruise liner will certainly currently be routinely provided with LNG at the Spanish port.
Commissioned onDec 12, 2008, AIDAnova is powered by 4 Caterpillar MaK M 46 DF dual-fuel engines and also has 3 gas containers aboard. Two of the containers each have a size of around 35 meters, a size of 8 meters and also an ability of 1,550 cubic meters. A 3rd, smaller sized container with a size of 5 meters, is 28 meters long and also has an ability of around 520 cubic meters.