UPDATED—We Are Just Hours Away From The Float-out Of The World's First LNG Powered Cruise Ship

Update: the soon to be cruise ship is (slowly) backing out of the construction hall. It is very large.

NDR livecam

Latest screengrab from Meyer Werft's webcam:

Original post: 

It's a pretty big deal.

As Manager Magazin put it earlier this morning: 

Abschied vom Stinker-Schiff - Aidanova fährt mit Flüssiggas

When the ship goes into service for Carnival-owned AIDA later this year the AIDAnova will rank in the top-10 largest cruise ships in the world.

Here's MusterStation with some stats:

World’s 5 Largest Cruise Ships in 2019

...AIDA is another dark horse coming through with a huge ship out of the blue. Among their 10 other ships, the average size measures roughly 50,000 gross tons. The AIDAnova is over 3x their normal vessel weight size weighing in at 180,000 gross tons. Let’s hope the company knows how to handle all of that ship!

We’ll find out whether this is the case when the ship launches in December 2018. She’ll be serving up itineraries in the Canary Islands.

The AIDAnova will be a favorite of our environmentally conscious cruisers, as the ship is powered solely by liquified natural gas (LNG). It’s the very first ship to feature this eco-friendly fuel source.

AIDAnova Statistics

• Cruise Line:  AIDA
• Cruise Ship:  AIDAnova
• Ship Class:  Helios
• Year Built:  2018
• Passengers:  6,600
• Crew: 2,500
• Total People: 9,100
• Ship Cost:  $950 Million
• Beam:  42 Meters
• Gross Tonnage:  180,000 tons
• Ship Length:  337 Meters (1,106 feet)
• Decks:  20
• Speed:  26 Knots
• IMO:  9781865
• MMSI:  TBD

The Manager Mag headline is (very) roughly: "Farewell to the stinker ships - Aidanova drives with LNG"

Here's a screencap from the live webcam at Meyer Werft's shipyard.

Float out of AIDAnova
August 21, 2018

And  from NDR:

Stand: 21.08.2018 16:01 Uhr - Lesezeit: ca.2 Min.

 "AIDAnova" wird heute ausgedockt 

 

Noch auf dem Trockenen, bald am Ausrüstungspier: die "AIDAnova".