{"id":5573,"date":"2017-12-13T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2017\/12\/13\/mediterranean-ports-provide-lng-to-aida\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:49:01","slug":"mediterranean-ports-provide-lng-to-aida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2017\/12\/13\/mediterranean-ports-provide-lng-to-aida\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediterranean ports provide LNG to AIDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AIDA Cruises has formed an agreement with the Ports of Barcelona (Spain), Marseille (France) and Civitavecchia (Italy), for its <em>AIDAperla<\/em> vessel to be supplied with LNG via a truck while docked. The company is also currently in discussion with authorities in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) for the same facility.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement could play an important role in helping the ports improve air quality and reduce emissions as part of their environmental initiatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reduced emissions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the use of LNG to supply onboard power, the emission of nitrogen oxides is reduced by up to 80% and carbon dioxide emissions are cut by a further 20%. Particulate matter and sulfur oxides are almost entirely eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>On average, a cruise ship spends 40% of its operating time docked in port and <em>AIDAperla\u2019s<\/em> dual-fuel engine means it is well placed to take advantage of the arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>The cruise company already tested the practical application of this technology in early 2016 with AIDAperla&#8217;s twin ship <em>AIDAprima<\/em>, which became the first cruise ship to routinely use LNG while in port.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LNG provision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>AIDAprima <\/em>was first fuelled with LNG at the Port of Hamburg. Following this, operations were also possible in the ports of Southampton (UK), Le Havre (France), Zeebrugge (Belgium) and Rotterdam (Netherlands). <\/p>\n<p>In <em>AIDAprima&#8217;s<\/em> current cruise region, around the Canaries and Madeira, AIDA Cruises is working with local partners to organize the ship&#8217;s LNG supply in Funchal (Madeira, Portugal).<\/p>\n<p>With the commissioning of <em>AIDAnova<\/em> in Autumn 2018, AIDA Cruises will be able to operate its new generation of ships entirely with LNG \u2013 both in port and at sea. A second, twin ship will reinforce the AIDA fleet from early 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Mediterranean ports are providing LNG refuelling opportunities for an AIDA Cruises vessel as part of an LNG initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5575,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions\/5575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}