NYK Cruises anticipates delivery of LNG-fuelled cruise ship in 2025

NYK Cruises, a unit of Japanese shipping company NYK Line, expects delivery of its LNG-powered cruise ship in 2025.

PHOTO: Company representatives at the steel cutting ceremony of NYK Cruises’ LNG-powered cruise ship Asuka III. Meyer Werft

NYK Cruises placed the order for the cruise vessel, Asuka III, in 2021. It is currently being built by German shipbuilder Meyer Werft.

The cruise vessel, which has a capacity to carry 744 passengers, will be powered by LNG.

LNG is “one of the cleanest fuels currently available for shipping. In addition to the reduction of CO2 emissions, the emission of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter can be almost completely eliminated, and sulphur oxides completely avoided,” Meyer Werft says.

LNG has been gaining popularity among shipowners. The global LNG-fuelled fleet is currently made up of 431 vessels, with another 110 expected to join this year, according to classification society DNV data.

LNG can curb carbon dioxide emissions by about a quarter compared to conventional bunker fuels. But its methane emissions can be 36 times more potent as a GHG compared to carbon dioxide over a century, according to a World Bank study.

By Tuhin Roy

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