Cruiseship giant Carnival is working to speed up its LNG bunkering operations as it gains experience with its first LNG-fuelled vessel in Tenerife.
Carnival is supplying about 900 tonnes of LNG as bunkers to the 183,900-gt AIDAnova (built 2018) every two weeks in an operation that takes about 10 hours, company LNG project director Stuart Carpenter said.
He explained that the cruiseship owner needs to cut this time down to eight hours, which he believes can be done with the use of technology, but stressed that the operation also needs to be completed safely.
