At over 46 million euros, the Helix terminal and the company’s existing terminal at the port represent Carnival Corporation’s largest combined terminal investment in Europe.<\/p>\n
“We have a long history of working with Carnival Corporation and its cruise line brands,” said Sixte Cambra, president of Port of Barcelona.<\/p>\n
“In every aspect, and particularly in its innovative and sustainable approach, this is a world-class cruise terminal that further enhances our reputation as one of the best ports in the world.”<\/p>\n
Green cruise ships<\/strong><\/p>\n Designed by Catalan architecture firm Batlle i Roig Arquitectura, the company’s newest cruise terminal aims to create a contemporary and comfortable guest environment enhancing the embarkation and disembarkation process for cruise guests.<\/p>\n Carnival Corporation’s deployment of LNG-fueled ships supports the pioneering Air Quality Improvement Plan proposed by the Port of Barcelona in November 2016 to effectively reduce emissions from the port.<\/p>\n In total, Carnival Corporation currently has agreements in place to build nine fully LNG-powered cruise ships across four of its nine global cruise brands in coming years.<\/p>\n In addition to its ships that will pioneer the use of LNG, the company has employed other environmental technology helping pioneer exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) in the small confines of a cruise ship.<\/p>\n Further, about 40% of its fleet was equipped with cold ironing capabilities by the end of 2017, enabling ships to use an alternative power source in port where available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carnival Corporation has opened a brand-new cruise terminal at the Port of Barcelona which will accommodate its next-generation green cruisers powered by LNG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}