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Begun the construction of the first cruise ship to the world that will be able to employ the GNL as single fuel
Cut of the first sheet in the ship yard of Papenburg
February 21, 2017
Today in the ship yard of Papenburg of Meyer Werft, with the cut of the first sheet, the construction is begun of before two cruise ships that the group American Carnival Corporation has ordered for own AIDA Cruises brand and that they will be the first cruise ships to the world that will be able to navigate with the single which liquified natural gas employment as fuel ( on 15 June 2015).
The two ships will have a tonnage of 180 thousand tons and will have of about 2.500 cabins. The first unit will be delivered in the autumn of the 2018 and second one in the spring of 2021.
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