TUI Cruises Takes Supply of New Ship From Meyer Turku
Ending lower than two years of building, TUI Cruises has formally expanded its fleet with the addition of the Mein Schiff 7. The vessel was formally handed over in a ceremony on the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland on June 10, 2024.
“On June 14, 2022, the metal reducing for Mein Schiff 7 passed off at our shipyard. We’re very proud that at the moment, lower than two years later, we will hand over the Mein Schiff 7 to TUI Cruises,” mentioned Meyer Turku’s CEO Tim Meyer because the handover passed off.
TUI Cruises’ CEO Wybcke Meier accepted the handover, saying, “Ten years in the past, we picked up our first ship of the Blu Movement class right here in Turku. Mein Schiff 3 was the primary new construct for TUI Cruises, and by 2019, we had constructed a complete of six ships. We thank the Meyer Turku shipyard for the superb cooperation and the event of our ‘feel-good’ fleet.”
Mein Schiff 7, which shall be based mostly in Kiel, Germany, is ready to depart on a 2-night roundtrip christening voyage within the Bay of Kiel within the Danish Sea on June 12.
It’ll then sail on a 5-night “anticipation” journey from Kiel to Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark, and Oslo, Norway, on June 16 earlier than launching totally into its inaugural season.
Cruises for the two,896-passenger and 1,000-crew ship will vary from 8 to 17 days and discover Northern Europe, visiting Norway, Lithuania, Sweden, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Denmark, and different ports in Germany.
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The seventh ship within the Mein Schiff fleet and the primary constructed for TUI Cruises since 2019, Mein Schiff 7 is a sister ship to Mein Schiff 1 and Mein Schiff 2. “It affords many options that our visitors admire, together with quite a few new highlights based mostly on visitor suggestions,” mentioned Meier.
The brand new highlights embrace a brand new design, further cabin classes, and 12 eating places and bistros throughout its 16 decks.
TUI Cruises Expands Fleet with Deal with Sustainability
Mein Schiff 7 would be the first ship within the fleet to be operated completely with low-emission marine diesel and is supplied with catalysts and a shore energy connection. The ship was constructed to run on methanol, together with inexperienced methanol sooner or later, which is able to make the ship’s propulsion nearly carbon impartial.
TUI Cruises is at the moment creating the methanol propulsion of four-stroke engines, because it but exists, and plans to equip the brand new ship with them by 2026. It could be the primary cruise ship powered by methanol propulsion.
Designed to satisfy calls for for sustainability and effectivity, Mein Schiff 7 has additionally been geared up with an revolutionary waste processing system that thermally treats natural waste, shredding it and making ready it for additional use on land.
Referred to as “HydroTreat,” the method makes use of warmth and stress to separate the liquid components of the waste, that are then directed to the ship’s personal wastewater remedy system. The stable waste components are transformed into so-called BioChar, which is taken into account versatile in agriculture for soil enchancment or as a feed additive.
TUI Cruises is additional increasing its Mein Schiff fleet with the addition of two new ships: the 160,000-gross-ton Mein Schiff Calm down and Mein Schiff 9. These vessels are at the moment below building on the Fincantieri shipyard in Italy and are scheduled to debut in 2025 and 2026, respectively.