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Caterpillar Marine Power Systems said that AIDA Cruises will equip the first two of its next generation of club cruise ships with MaK M 43 C engines, a breakthrough into the cruise shipping market for Caterpillar Marine as it seeks to become a larger player in the in the cruise shipping maret. The two AIDA newbuilds are on order at the Meyer

Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, scheduled for delivery in 2007 and 2009.

The two 68,500-gt cruise ships will have an overall length over 249 metres and a beam of 32.2 metres. These new

AIDA "club ships" represent the third generation of ships built and operated according to the AIDA "club" concept.

Each vessel will have a passenger capacity of 2,030, (up to 2,500) accom- modated in 1,015 cabins.

Each of the two new ships will be equipped with four MaK 9 M 43 C engines with a total power of 36 MW, providing the necessary power to oper- ate two single-propeller electric driving motors, two bow thrusters and two stern thrusters (per vessel). In addition, the installation produces the electricity for all other high-consumption units on board.

The engines are equipped with

Flexible Camshaft Technology, part of

Caterpillar's innovative emissions reduction ACERT technology. In this application, Flexible Camshaft

Technology will reduce soot particle emissions to below the visible limit, thereby satisfying the industry's highest environmental standards.

In addition, the engines are equipped with safety features such as a slow turn- ing device, a system which enables engi- neers to check for the presence of water or fuel in the cylinder before start, a splash-oil temperature monitoring alarm system designed to prevent bearing seizures, an oil mist detector and locator with individual display, and the

DICARE engine monitoring program, which allows users to monitor all the engine components. The complete sys- tem operates on?line so that the current data can be called up at any time.

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Conference, scheduled for June 8, 2005. • Andreas Sohmen-Pao Director of

World-Wide Shipping. World-Wide was founded in 1955 by Sir Y K Pao, the

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AIDA Cruises Chooses MaK Engines

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