Photos: Boskalis Successfully Loads Carnival Cruise Ship On Top Of Boka Vanguard

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Image Credits: boskalis.com

‎Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) successfully loaded cruise ship Carnival Vista on its semi-submersible heavy lift vessel BOKA Vanguard and transported it to a shipyard facility in Freeport, Bahamas for a unique dry docking operation.

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Image Credits: boskalis.com

Commencing last Saturday 13 July at sunrise the BOKA Vanguard loaded and lifted cruise ship Carnival Vista in a successful operation a few miles off the coast of Freeport.

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Image Credits: boskalis.com

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Carnival Corporation To Significantly Reduce Single-Use Plastics By End Of 2021

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Carnival Corporation & plc, the world’s largest leisure travel company, announced that it will significantly eliminate its purchase and consumption of non-essential single-use plastics by the end of 2021. The effort to dramatically reduce single-use plastics across its nine global cruise line brands is part of an expansion of Operation Oceans Alive, the corporation’s program to further its ongoing commitment to achieve and sustain environmental...

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Power-cut Plunges Massive Cruise Ship into Darkness!

According to an article published in Newsweek, a power outage on a cruise ship plunged parts of the vessel into darkness and left passengers without air conditioning or elevators.

What happened?

The Carnival Vista, run by Carnival Cruise Line, lost power during a trip to the Caribbean on Wednesday evening, according to a brand ambassador for the firm.

John Heald wrote on Facebook: “At the moment the ship (Vista) has lost some of the power from the midship to the forward section of the vessel. This...

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Environmental Groups Call For International Moratorium On Ship Scrubbers Following Carnival’s Criminal Revelations

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As the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC74) meets this week in London, ten international non-governmental organisations have written to IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim to call for an immediate moratorium on the shipping industry’s use of scrubber technology, or Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS), as an alternative compliance mechanism for current Emissions Control Areas and the looming 2020 fuel sulphur standards. This follows the publication...

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Port Canaveral Authority and Carnival Cruise Line Executives Break Ground On $163M Complex

At a space-themed ceremony, the Canaveral Port Authority and longtime cruise partner Carnival Cruise Line officially broke ground for construction of Port Canaveral’s new Cruise Terminal 3 complex. The new terminal, dubbed the Launch Pad, will be the home of Mardi Gras, the cruise line’s newest and most innovative ship, beginning in 2020. Port Authority Commissioners and the Port’s leadership team joined Carnival Cruise Line executives for the ceremonial groundbreaking at the project site as...

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