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30Maritime Reporter & Engineering News Great Shipsof 2012MV Cellus A simple German freighter is abonafide trendsetter for clean ships op- eration, becoming the first seagoing ship to earn the ?Blue Angel? eco-label, the oldest eco-labeling of Europe. The UN forwarded the eco-label into the hands of the German Ministry for the Environ- ment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety ? for the award of environmental products and services. When climbing aboard the MV Cellusthe first thing that you see on the super- structure is a big sign ? the ?Blue Angel? mark ? which is a sign that is most fre-quently seen on toilet paper or milk car- tons, as the Blue Angel is most closely associated with and conferred upon con-sumer products.It?s not new, but is MV Cellus one of the cleanest ship in the world? MV Cellus loads cellulose at the Södra papermill in Karlshamn, Sweden.Quick question: When the words ?Green Shipping? and ?German Maritime? are put together, is the first thought in your mind modern cruise ships? If you answered yes, it would be understandable; but partially right, partially wrong. Recently Maritime Reporter & Engi- neering News German-based contributing editor Dipl.-Ing. Peter Pospiech climbed on board the MV CELLUS ? a Ger- man freighter ? to uncover some of the secrets that make it a clean operating ship, in fact so clean that it fulfills the strin- gent requirements of the Blue Angel Award, and warrants fea- ture in Maritime Reporter & Engineering News? ?Great Ships of 2012.? By Dipl.-Ing. Peter Pospiech, Germany MR#12 (26-33):MR Template 12/3/2012 2:27 PM Page 30