Carnival spending big to reduce ship sulphur emissions

Thursday, 23 May, 2014 0

Carnival Corp. plans to invest up to $400 million installing exhaust-cleaning systems to over 70 ships to meet new stringent green standards.

In order to comply with rules limiting sulphur emissions in North American waters, the company will fit the ECO Exhaust Gas Cleaning (ECO-EGC) system on ships over the next few years.

It will begin with converting 22 Carnival Cruise Lines ships, nine Holland America Line ships, seven Princess Cruises and three Cunard ships.

The systems will also be installed on ships in its AIDA Cruises and Costa Cruises brands.

The new green tech will "drive significant benefits to our entire company and, of course, the environment," according to Carnival Corp. CEO Arnold Donald.

"The performance has been very good or clearly we wouldn’t be announcing the expansion," Donald said.

Regulations set by the International Maritime Organization call for sulphur emissions to be limited to 0.1% from 2015 and 0.5% worldwide from 2020.

Carnival’s system works by using seawater to scrub sulfur from the exhaust gases.

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