{"id":3750,"date":"2019-11-10T00:17:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T21:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2019-11-10T00:17:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T21:17:32","slug":"hurtigruten-worlds-1st-hybrid-electric-powered-cruise-ship-named-in-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/hurtigruten-worlds-1st-hybrid-electric-powered-cruise-ship-named-in-antarctica\/3750\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurtigruten: World\u2019s 1st Hybrid Electric-Powered Cruise Ship Named in Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MS Roald Amundsen, the world\u2019s first hybrid electric-powered expedition ship, has been named in Chiriguano Bay on Brabant Island, Antarctica.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cWe could not think of a better location than Antarctica to name MS Roald Amundsen,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Daniel Skjeldam, chief executive officer of Hurtigruten, commented, adding that the ship is the symbol of a new era in the cruise industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MS Roald Amundsen is one of three 15,000-ton hybrid-powered vessels ordered by Norwegian cruise operator Hurtigruten.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Accommodating 530 passengers, the ships are custom built for the Arctic\u2019s extreme conditions, with specially designed, ice-strengthened hulls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Equipped with green technology, MS Roald Amundsen uses large battery packs to support its low-emission engines, reducing CO2 emissions by more than 20 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MS Roald Amundsen made history this summer as the first cruise ship to sail on battery power and became the first hybrid electric-powered ship\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/283047\/ms-roald-amundsen-first-hybrid-powered-ship-to-complete-northwest-passage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to transit the Northwest Passage.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After completing the 2019-20 Antarctica season, the newbuild will spend the 2020 summer season in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second hybrid electric-powered expedition ship, MS Fridtjof Nansen, is expected to join the fleet in 2020, while the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/263742\/hurtigruten-orders-another-hybrid-cruise-ship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">yet-to-be-named third ship<\/a>\u00a0is planned to be delivered in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post_share_buttons\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MS Roald Amundsen, the world\u2019s first hybrid electric-powered expedition ship, has been named in Chiriguano Bay on Brabant Island, Antarctica. \u201cWe could not think of a better location than Antarctica to name MS Roald Amundsen,\u201d\u00a0Daniel Skjeldam, chief executive officer of Hurtigruten, commented, adding that the ship is the symbol of a new era in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,57],"tags":[840,615],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-shipping-news","tag-antractica","tag-hurtigruten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}