12th December 2018

The Hamburg-based company Marine Service GmbH has successfully installed the LNG Fuel Gas Supply System on the “AIDAnova”.

This makes the recently delivered “AIDAnova” the first cruise ship in the world to be powered by LNG at sea and in port.

LNG is currently the most environmentally friendly ship fuel with the lowest emission values. The “AIDAnova” was built at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg for the cruise company Carnival Corporation.

Marine Service GmbH was commissioned with the design and supply the gas supply system. The main components of the gas system supplied by Marine Service GmbH are LNG pumps, gas compressors, evaporators, cryogenic valves and superheaters, as well as the glycol water modules that use the waste heat from the main engines and feed it to the evaporators and superheaters to treat the fuel. In addition, all electrical components including the pneumatic interfaces and the PLC-controlled automation system are part of the Marine Service GmbH scope of supply. The system is designed in such a way that in the event of a component failure, the redundancy is so high that gas operation is still possible and safe. Marine Service GmbH prepared the operating instructions and provided training for the ship’s crew and the shipyard employees who operated the LNG system during commissioning and testing.