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Le Havre ready supplier of LNG to massive cruise ship while docked
THE Port of Le Havre, the core of the Seine Bay HAROPA maritime complex serving Paris, took pride in its role of supplying low-emission LNG fuel to the docked 125,000-gross ton cruise ship AIDAprima.
"The Seine Bay is a study laboratory in the vanguard of this revolution," said the statement from the port authority.
"The challenge is at once technical, economic and environmental - and essential for ports on the English Channel and North Sea," said the HAROPA release.
On May 10 and for the first time HAROPA - Port of Le Havre - supplied the first cruise ship to be operated with LNG.
Calling at the Le Havre, the massive AIDAprima, the flagship from Germany's leading cruise line, AIDA Cruises, is the world's first cruise ship to feature a dual fuel generator that can be operated with low-emission liquefied natural gas (LNG) during mooring time at the port.
A dry run was conducted beforehand on May 3. "In ports in which a specific risk assessment has been managed, the ship can thus be operated with low emission liquid natural gas LNG while docked at port," said the release.
Cruise ships average 40 per cent of their operating time in port. By using LNG emissions will be reduced with sulphur oxide and particles eliminated while nitrogen oxide cut by up to 80 per cent and carbon dioxide by 20 per cent.
In all ports along the metropolitan route of the English Channel and the North Sea, the AIDAprima can be operated with LNG while docked.
The preparations and initial permit procedures for the ports of Hamburg, Southampton, Rotterdam and Zeebrugge are already well underway.
After finalising the preparations and initial permit procedures, the Port of Le Havre was able to welcome the ship and proceed to supply LNG.
The ports of the Seine Bay are at the cutting edge for the drawing up of a statutory framework for using alternative fuels with low emissions of sulphur, said HAROPA.
In March 2014 they launched the SAFE SECA project on the "development of alternative marine fuels". The objective of SAFE SECA is to contribute to the reduction of ship polluting emissions, offering competitive and reliable alternative solutions to using fuel oil for ship propulsion.
"The Seine Bay is a study laboratory in the vanguard of this revolution," said the statement from the port authority.
"The challenge is at once technical, economic and environmental - and essential for ports on the English Channel and North Sea," said the HAROPA release.
On May 10 and for the first time HAROPA - Port of Le Havre - supplied the first cruise ship to be operated with LNG.
Calling at the Le Havre, the massive AIDAprima, the flagship from Germany's leading cruise line, AIDA Cruises, is the world's first cruise ship to feature a dual fuel generator that can be operated with low-emission liquefied natural gas (LNG) during mooring time at the port.
A dry run was conducted beforehand on May 3. "In ports in which a specific risk assessment has been managed, the ship can thus be operated with low emission liquid natural gas LNG while docked at port," said the release.
Cruise ships average 40 per cent of their operating time in port. By using LNG emissions will be reduced with sulphur oxide and particles eliminated while nitrogen oxide cut by up to 80 per cent and carbon dioxide by 20 per cent.
In all ports along the metropolitan route of the English Channel and the North Sea, the AIDAprima can be operated with LNG while docked.
The preparations and initial permit procedures for the ports of Hamburg, Southampton, Rotterdam and Zeebrugge are already well underway.
After finalising the preparations and initial permit procedures, the Port of Le Havre was able to welcome the ship and proceed to supply LNG.
The ports of the Seine Bay are at the cutting edge for the drawing up of a statutory framework for using alternative fuels with low emissions of sulphur, said HAROPA.
In March 2014 they launched the SAFE SECA project on the "development of alternative marine fuels". The objective of SAFE SECA is to contribute to the reduction of ship polluting emissions, offering competitive and reliable alternative solutions to using fuel oil for ship propulsion.
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