As for Hurtigruten, the company hopes to finalize the design by 2026, start building in 2027, and hopefully set sail by 2030. Although visual striking, wing sails as a concept aren’t new-other eco-conscious shipping companies have proposed wind-powered cargo carriers using similar technology. The ship’s wing sails are also designed to be retractable, so that the cruise liner can easily pass under necessary bridges. Although solar can be unreliable (to say the least) in Norwegian winters, in the summer, the ship could receive 24/7 sunlight (at least, in its more northern routesm near the arctic). Hurtigrutenīut the most striking features of the zero-emissions ship are the 164-foot-tall retractable “wing sails.” These sails rotate to leverage wind power, and are bedecked with 16,000 square feet of solar panels. Well, one Norwegian cruise company is going to give it a try.Ī view of the proposed ship’s wing sailed extended. Can cruise ships ever kick their fossil fuel habit? Similar to the airline industry, the cruise industry is facing immense engineering challenges to overcome its dirty dependencies. Those engines require a lot of fuel-250 tons a day, according to one estimate -which is more gas than you’ll ever use in your car in your entire lifetime. With thousands of passengers and crew onboard, cruise ships are essentially floating cities that require immense amounts of power, usually generated from diesel-electric engines. The report was nothing new for environmentalists, who’ve been highlighting cruise lines’ abysmal environmental records since at least the 1990s. According to a 2019 report by a sustainable transport group Transport & Environment, the world’s largest cruise operator, Carnival, emitted 10 times as much sulfur oxide (SO x) in 2017 than all of Europe’s cars combined.
The company hopes to have this new species of cruise liner traveling the Norwegian coast by 2030.Ĭruise ships have a dirty secret: they pollute…a lot.Hurtigruten, a Norwegian transport and cruise company, revealed an ambitious design for a zero-emissions cruise liner with retractable "wing sails," 16,000 square feet of solar panels, and 60 megawatt batteries.Cruise ships are notorious greenhouse gas emitters, producing high levels of sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and carbon dioxide.
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