Plugged-In: Electricity To Play Bigger Role In Powering Cruise Ships
Published 3 months ago
Under constant pressure to reduce their carbon footprint, cruise lines have been exploring alternative energy sources for a long time now. The move toward a more sustainable product has accelerated in recent years, and is now starting to bear some real fruit.
AIDAnova (Photo courtesy of AIDA Cruises/CHLietzmann)
One of the biggest trends is the use of liquefied natural gas to power cruise ships. The first passenger ship to employ LNG was Carnival Corporation’s
AIDAnova, which debuted in 2018.
Since then, more than 20 additional LNG ships have been announced. One of those, Carnival Cruise Line’s first mega-ship, the 5,282-passenger
Huntley Mitchell 16 Dec 2020
Several key Hurtigruten systems remain down after the cruise line was hit by an extensive cyberattack late on Sunday.
According to Hurtigruten, the attack appears to be a so-called ransomware virus, which has affected its website email communications.
The company has been cooperating with relevant Norwegian authorities and partners to obtain an overview of the situation and to limit the spread and damage of the attack.
Hurtigruten chief digital officer Ole-Marius Moe-Helgesen described the incident as “a serious attack” on the cruise line’s global IT infrastructure.
“We have implemented comprehensive measures to limit the extent of the damage from the attack,” he said in a statement.
By Lars Erik Taraldsen and Michael Smith (Bloomberg)
The Norwegian cruise line Hurtigruten Group was ready to show the world that ships could be made safe from Covid-19. It outfitted its newest vessel, the MS Roald Amundsen, with a suite of prevention measures for cruises among the glaciers, fjords and polar bear breeding grounds of Svalbard Island, far above the Arctic Circle.
And yet sometime after the Amundsen left Tromso, a port in northern Norway flanked by snow-capped mountains, on July 17, the virus found its way on board. Eventually, 71 passengers and crew members from two back-to-back cruises to Svalbard were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, outbreaks that were traced back to the ship. The Amundsen, named for the Norwegian man who became the first explorer to reach the South Pole, had become one of the worst Covid super-spreader events to strike Norway, according to a tabulation compiled by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
By Lars Erik Taraldsen /p p and Michael Smith Bloomberg News
The Norwegian cruise line Hurtigruten Group was ready to show the world that ships could be made safe from COVID-19. It outfitted its newest vessel, the MS Roald Amundsen, with a suite of prevention measures for cruises among the glaciers, fjords and polar bear breeding grounds of Svalbard Island, far above the Arctic Circle.
And yet sometime after the Amundsen left Tromso, a port in northern Norway flanked by snow-capped mountains, on July 17, the virus found its way on board. Eventually, 71 passengers and crew members from two back-to-back cruises to Svalbard were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, outbreaks that were traced back to the ship. The Amundsen, named for the Norwegian man who became the first explorer to reach the South Pole, had become one of the worst COVID-19 superspreader events to strike Norway.
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