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Phoenicia Plaza retains the original design features
that respects the environment in a serious way.” And Domenico Pellegrino, managing director of MSC Cruises, commented: “This award shows a very high quality standard of energy saving systems. These standards are taking the shipbuilding sector to a new frontier.” BV’s award is a voluntary scheme that certifies corporate compliance with the four highest international standards in the areas of environment (ISO 14001), health and safety (OHSAS 180n01), food safety (ISO 22000) and energy efficiency (ISO 50001), together with the additional notation Cleanship-2-AWT, which covers the three aspects of ‘potential pollution’, of the air, of water and from waste material. Philippe Donche-Gay, executive vice
president and head of Bureau Veritas’ Marine & Offshore Division, said: “The ‘7 Golden Pearls’ we are awarding to MSC Preziosa are a demonstration that MSC Cruises is committed to the environment, to food safety and to the health and safety of its workforce. MSC Cruises takes a holistic view of its responsibilities in all these areas and invests to go well beyond the basic requirements of regulation. It is a great pleasure to be able to verify and recognise these achievements, which set a new and higher integrated standard for the entire cruise industry.” Michele Mareska, chief engineer,
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explained that the propulsion on MSC Preziosa and MSC Divina is asynchronous as compared with the synchronous on sisters MSC Fantasia and MSC Splendida. He said: “The technology is always updating and asynchronous is a more easy system and in the same volume and weight you can have more power.”
The two electrical motors, each with
a power of 21.85MW, are from General Electric, which acquired Converteam. The synchronous motors on MSC Fantasia and MSC Splendida, with the same volume and weight, each have power of 20.2MW. Mr Mareska, who started life on
tankers but has been with MSC for 21 years, has followed each class of the
MSC ships during construction and so is familiar with all three classes – Fantasia, Musica (90,000gt) and Lirica (60,000gt). “I can say that this class for me is the best,” he said, “because all the systems are new and better.” When it comes to the environment, the advanced wastewater treatment system is from Scanship. All the grey and black water is mixed and at the end of the treatment “we have water that is completely biologically clean,” he said, suggesting that, in the future, treated wastewater could be used in the laundry. The system can treat about 2,000m3 per day and there is capacity to hold wastewater for three days without discharging. Based on the anticipated water usage per person, including the laundry and galley, with a compliment of 5,500 passenger and crew, the total comes to 1,800m3 per day. This is more than met by two reverse osmosis plants on board from NSCL of Germany and two evaporators from Wärtsilä (which bought Serck Como), which produce 2,400m3 per day. All the garbage except plastic, glass, aluminium, steel and seafood shells, is treated and burnt in a Scanship incinerator outside 12 miles from shore. The ash and the other waste are discharged ashore. When it comes to fuel, MSC
Mr Pellegrino: “...Taking the shipbuilding sector to a new frontier”
burns marine gas oil (MGO) in port, fuel of less than 1 per cent sulphur inside 12 miles and heavy fuel oil
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