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With eight years of close collaboration in the books, Norwegian Cruise Line and Yara Marine Technologies can celebrate the finalisation of scrubber installations onboard eight NCL ships. The program kicked off in 2012, with the first installation on the Pride of America completed in early 2014. Exhaust gas cleaning was still uncharted territory for most..

Nippon Paint Marine has signed a long-term supply contract with Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (Norwegian) to provide antifouling systems to 13 cruise ships operating under the Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises, and Regent Seven Seas Cruises brands. The agreement, signed late last year, will see the coatings specialist apply its market-leading low-friction SPC antifouling, A-LF-Sea,..

Wärtsilä will supply Hybrid Scrubber system packages, specially customised to meet the specific needs of two cruise vessels. The ships are owned and operated by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). The 325m long Norwegian Breakaway and Norwegian Getaway will be fitted with Wärtsilä scrubber systems, enabling them to be in compliance with the International Maritime Organisation’s..

  Norwegian Cruise Line’s  Norwegian Epic, entered Damen Shiprepair Brest on 27 September for scheduled refit and maintenance. The vessel will remain in Brest’s largest drydock until 18 October. Besides executing the repair and maintenance works, the yard will provide all necessary logistic services to Norwegian Cruise Line’s arranged contractors.  Norwegian Epic is cruising reimagined..

Maritime ropes producer and supplier, Lankhorst Ropes has supplied mooring lines to Norwegian Cruise Lines’ (NCL) newest vessel the Norwegian Getaway. The cruise ship uses Tipto Winchline and Euroflex ropes which, once retired, will be recycled as part of Lankhorst’s environmentally friendly approach to rope supply. Norwegian Getaway is NCL’s second Breakaway Class vessel with..

Norwegian Cruise Line is sending its newest ship Norwegian Escape to Hamburg. TUI Cruises just christened its newest ship Mein Schiff 3 in Hamburg and last Friday, the Azamara Journey visited the port for the first time. The latest news for the cruise port Hamburg is spectacular: The new vessel Norwegian Escape”will visit Hamburg on..

In the marine industry, it is almost unheard of for a new application to penetrate the market quickly, especially when it builds entirely on a new technology. Yet judging by major orders for Alfa Laval’s PureDry – placed by the leading ship owners in nearly every vessel category – this is exactly what has happened…

L-3 Marine Systems International (L-3 MSI) announced today that it has supplied its NACOS Platinum series aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s new 324m, 145,500gt cruise liner, Norwegian Getaway. Built by Meyer Werft at its Papenburg shipyard in northern Germany, the vessel entered service in February of this year from its home port of Miami and accommodates..

ABB won orders worth USD 180 million in 2013 to deliver complete electrical power plants and propulsion systems for six new cruise liners that include its latest-generation Azipod XO units. The orders make 2013 the best-ever year for ABB in cruise liners with the Azipod system. The six ships include two for Norwegian Cruise Line..

Last week Meyer Werft celebrated the keel laying of the cruise ship with the yard number S.678 – the first of two new ships the yard is building for Norwegian Cruise Line. The Norwegian Breakaway Class cruise ship, which will accommodate 4,000 passengers and more than 1,500 crew members, is scheduled for delivery in spring..

As part of their commitment to the environment, Norwegian Cruise Line applied biocide free, Intersleek foul release coatings to the 78,309GRT Norwegian Sun when it was built in Germany in 2001. Ten years later, it has only needed touch-up repairs, significantly reducing overall paint volume, packaging, waste and VOC emissions. Because full coats were not necessary,..

Imtech has received a major order from the German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg for the energy efficient heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) technology on board of two new Norwegian Cruise Line cruise ships planned a spring 2013 and 2014 delivery. The vessels will be the largest cruise ships ever built in Germany. An option..

Powered by Converteam, the Norwegian Epic cruise ship successfully achieved its first series of sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean from 12 to 14 February 2010. As a world premiere, Norwegian Epic implements a first innovative high power propulsion system with induction motors fed by PWM converters. The vessel is powered by two 24MW slow-speed..