Carnival’s Fuel Conservation Drive Pay Dividends

Carnival Corporation cruise company has projected that by the end of 2014 it will have saved more than one billion gallons of fuel, and have reduced fleet carbon emissions by 12 billion kilograms through its Fleet Fuel Conservation Program started in 2007.

By the end of 2014, Carnival Corporation’s Fleet Fuel Conservation Program will have improved the fleet’s overall fuel efficiency by 24 percent compared to 2007, while saving approximately USD 2.5 billion in fuel costs, the company’s single biggest expense, according to a press release by Carnival.

Carnival is currently investing as much as USD 400 million to design, build and install an exhaust gas cleaning technology, called ECO-EGC, to more than 70 percent of its fleet. Carnival claims the system uses filters and seawater to remove pollutants from exhaust gases, advancing cleaner air quality for oceangoing vessels.
Source: Fathom-Ctech