Last year the carbon emissions of MSC's fleet Cruises, if they increased in absolute terms in line with the Fleet growth amounting to 2.08 million tonnes of CO2 compared to 1.06 million in 2021 when activity still had not fully recovered due to the impact on business of the COVID-19 pandemic and compared to 1.98 million tonnes of C02 in 2019 before the onset of the health crisis, are instead decreased in terms of Available Lower Berth-Kilometers, parameter which takes into account the kilometres travelled by the fleet and the beds low available ships as well as days of operation of ships, the latter being 220 grams CO2/ALB-Km compared to 235 grams CO2/ALB-Km in 2021 and 231 grams CO2/ALB-Km in 2019.

This was announced in the Sustainability Report on the 2022 published today by the cruise company that at such Purpose highlights how the carbon intensity of the fleet is decreased of -33,5% since 2008, when MSC Cruises operated eight ships compared to 21 ships at the end of 2022, with the aim of a reduction of -40% by 2030 to achieve zero emissions in 2050 compared to 2008.

The report specifies the fuel mix used by ships of the fleet in 2022 and previous years, recalling that the last year the cruise passengers hosted on the ships were 14.38 million compared to 4.47 million in 2021 and 19.50 million in the year pre-pandemic of 2019. Last year the total volume of fuel consumed by ships was 664 thousand tons, with increases of +96.6% on 2021 and +4.8% on 2019. In 2022 the share of HFSO bunkers at high sulfur content was 498 thousand tons (+119.7% on 2021 and -13.5% on 2019), that of LSFO bunker with low sulfur content of 59 thousand tons (+148.0% on 2021; fuel not used in 2019), that of marine diesel MGO of 105 thousand tons (+20.6% on 2021 and +83.0% on 2019) to which Over a thousand tons of natural gas will be added in 2022 liquefied, fuel not used in previous years.