Two Vista-class cruise ships, the ‘Westerdam’ and ‘Oosterdam’ have been retrofitted to use shore power at the Port of Seattle to reduce both fuel consumption and emissions.<\/p>\n
These two cruise ships will buy and use electricity provided by Seattle City Light, instead of diesel fuel, for power while docked in Seattle.<\/p>\n
“We are pleased to introduce shore power in Holland America Line’s hometown of Seattle,” said Stein Kruse, president and chief executive officer. “We are very supportive of Mayor Nickel’s and the Port of Seattle’s initiatives to reduce air emissions, which was certainly a driver in making Seattle the test port for this project. The success of this project was made possible by working in collaboration with the Port of Seattle, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, Seattle City Light, Cochran Electric and other engineering consultants.”<\/p>\n
The total cost to retrofit is nearly $1 million per ship. In addition, approximately $1.5 million has been spent dockside to establish hook-ups and install a transformer.
Other than a $25,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, HAL has assumed all of these costs.<\/p>\n
The approximate cost for shore power each time a ship plugs in is $5,000. Seattle City Light will pay up to $10,000 annually to purchase greenhouse gas offsets resulting from the use of shore power as part of the City’s program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n
To determine the feasibility of new technology designed to dramatically reduce air emissions on seagoing vessels, HAL plans on conducting a seawater scrubber feasibility project aboard one of its cruise ships. The current plan is to install the scrubber on the ?Zaandam? in Spring, 2007 and, following installation, the effectiveness of the scrubber will be analyzed and a final report submitted by June 2008. The total cost of the installation is more than $1.2 million and the project is intended to demonstrate how advanced seawater scrubbing reduces air emissions on large ocean-going vessels. The results will determine whether this technology could be rolled out to new ocean-going vessels, as well as retrofitting existing vessels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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