The Telegraph - Navigating a cleaner future for shipping industry

Rachel Millard - The Telegraph

At 337 metres, Carnival’s Aidanova cruise ship is longer than The Shard building is high. And with 5,200 rooms, it has more space to house guests than Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. When the ship was christened in 2018, more than 25,000 people attended its naming ceremony at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany.

Passengers who joined the maiden cruise around the Canary Islands may have been unaware of the ship’s other distinction. Aidanova was also the world’s first cruise ship powered by liquefied natural gas, in a shift away from the treacly bunker fuel and diesel that powers most of the world’s big ships, to try to cut sulphur, nitrogen and carbon emissions.