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The LNG Push

With the laying of AIDAnova’s keel in Germany on September 6, 2017, Car- nival Corporation marked the of? cial start of construction for a total of seven cruise ships that will be fully powered by lique? ed natural gas (LNG). Meyer

Werft lowered the ? rst building block into place for AIDAnova, the ? rst cruise ship worldwide that can be operated both at sea and in port with LNG. In the presence of AIDA President Felix Eichhorn, Bernard Meyer, CEO of Meyer

Werft, and Tim Meyer, CEO of Meyer Werft, two trainees named Louisa Trö- bner (AIDA Cruises) and Martin de Boer (Meyer Werft) placed the traditional lucky coin under the ? rst of a total of 90 blocks.

Arnold Donald, president and CEO of Carnival Corporation, together with

Bernard Meyer, CEO Meyer Werft, Michael Thamm, CEO Costa Group and

Carnival Asia, David Dingle, Chairman Carnival UK (P&O Cruises UK), Neil

Palomba, President of Costa Cruises, and Felix Eichhorn, President of AIDA

Cruises, - gave the of? cial "full steam ahead" signal, ringing in a new era of the commercial use of low-emission LNG in cruise travel. The seven LNG ships for cruise brands Carnival Cruise Lines, Costa Cruises, Carnival UK, and AIDA Cruises will be built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg (Germany) and

Turku (Finland) and commissioned between 2018 and 2022.

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