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John Hae? inger, Carnival Corp.

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Arnold Donald, President and CEO of Carnival Corporation is clearly important, and we recognize that a good partner who shares goals, vision (and shares in the investment) is worth far more than one who doesn’t and is only in for themselves in the short term,” said Hae? inger. “Our recently announced partnerships with Shell (for

LNG supply) and Wärtsilä (for engine maintenance and energy ef? ciency) il- lustrate our interest in and commitment to establishing mutually bene? cial part- nerships in this space. Equally if not more important has been our relation- ship with Ecospray, who has been an absolutely instrumental partner in the development of our EGCS program.”

Perhaps the biggest challenge for

Hae? inger and his team are designing tomorrow’s ? eet, ships that must enter- tain and return investment for 30 years or more, all the while meeting ever stricter environmental rules. Hae? inger believes that size and scale will remain important trends, though he does con- cede the smaller, specialty vessel trend can be pro? table in certain segments.

And while he and the Carnival team are eager to engage new technologies, they are selective. “From a technical perspective, after scale comes ef? cien- cy not only in terms of energy use, but also in terms of environmental impact.

However, “low emission” ships are clearly not a silver bullet concept, and “gadget” solutions like small scale so- lar panels will not move the needle,” he said. “Future designs will need to incor- porate a broad suite of technologies to further reduce the environmental foot- print of ships and will need to address all airborne and waterborne emissions, not just those currently regulated.”

With all of the investment in making ships more environmentally benign, si- multaneously addressing other areas of technology on the ship could be lost. But not on Carnival.

“I also see further (and likely a step- dards are extremely dif? cult to achieve siderable investment in LNG, the big- more energy ef? cient and reducing our change) integration and use of new tech- using available on board equipment and gest short to medium term challenge is GHG rate, which is our lead 2020 sus- nologies, including remote key system the Baltic ports are not all capable of re- GHG reduction. “Renewable sources of tainability goal.” ceiving ashore the waste water volumes energy are simply not yet available to us “Over the next 10-15 years, it is clear performance monitoring software, in- we will need to of? oad.” Wastewater is in a way that will allow us to radically that we as an industry will need to ? nd telligent condition-based maintenance programs, and automated decision aids/ just one challenge, and when consider- reduce our GHG footprint over night,” a carbon neutral fuel – it is unclear ex- ing the breadth of environmental invest- said Hae? inger. “Our investments to re- actly what that will be, but we have a tools for the crew to drive further ef? - ciencies and lower impacts. I also see ment it is important to ? rst realize that duce hull friction, improve air condition- number of initiatives in place to evalu- developments in the area of better in- cruise ships are 30+ year assets, with ing system ef? ciencies, recapture and re- ate potential options.” tegrating the human element into new many of the ships in the ? eet are operat- use waste heat, install LED lighting, and ship designs. Optimized bridge and en-

The Power of Partnership ing on older technology. Simultaneously even the recent inking of our long-term

Even a corporation with Carnival’s gine control room designs will be sup- the company must investigate and in- performance-based maintenance agree- ported by training, in our case, through vest in technologies for the existing ? eet ment with Wärtsilä which is designed heft is best served by not ‘going it alone,’ counting on key partnerships to help our global, state-of-the-art training fa- while “at the same time we seek radical to further improve our main engine ef- improvements in the ef? ciencies of our ? ciency, illustrate the focus we have had develop and deliver new technologies cility in Almere, outside of Amsterdam, new ships.” Despite the company’s con- and continue to have on making our ? eet onboard. “Choosing partners carefully in the Netherlands.” 38 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • OCTOBER 2017

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