{"id":4375,"date":"2020-01-25T23:21:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T20:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2020-01-25T23:21:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T20:21:24","slug":"north-americas-1st-lng-fueled-cruise-ship-floated-out-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/north-americas-1st-lng-fueled-cruise-ship-floated-out-in-finland\/4375\/","title":{"rendered":"North America\u2019s 1st LNG-Fueled Cruise Ship Floated Out in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Carnival Cruise Line\u2019s newest cruise vessel, Mardi Gras, was floated out at Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland on January 24.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 180,000 GT newbuilding\u00a0will be the largest ship in the Carnival fleet after delivery later in 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, it will be North America\u2019s first LNG-powered cruise vessel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cI believe Mardi Gras will be a truly special ship. She will be the first to use our \u2026 LNG cruise ship propulsion system in North American markets and feature many other sophisticated technologies,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Jan Meyer, CEO of Meyer Turku, commented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In December 2019, Meyer Turku\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/288398\/delivery-of-north-americas-1st-lng-powered-cruise-ship-delayed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a>\u00a0it would move the delivery of Mardi Gras to late October. The 5,200-passenger ship was previously scheduled for delivery in August 2020.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Once completed, the 5,200-plus lower berth vessel will feature a length of 337 meters and a width of 42 meters. Expected to enter revenue service on November 14 this year, the newbuild\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/273428\/canaveral-port-carnival-break-ground-on-new-cruise-terminal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will be based<\/a>\u00a0in Port Canaveral\u2019s new cruise terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Image Courtesy: Meyer Turku<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post_share_buttons\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carnival Cruise Line\u2019s newest cruise vessel, Mardi Gras, was floated out at Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland on January 24. The 180,000 GT newbuilding\u00a0will be the largest ship in the Carnival fleet after delivery later in 2020. In addition, it will be North America\u2019s first LNG-powered cruise vessel. \u201cI believe Mardi Gras will be a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[348,1019,523,768],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-finland","tag-fueled-cruise","tag-lng","tag-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","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=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}