Finishing not up to two years of development, TUI Cruises has formally expanded its fleet with the addition of the Mein Schiff 7. The vessel was once formally passed over in a rite on the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland on June 10, 2024.
“On June 14, 2022, the metal chopping for Mein Schiff 7 happened at our shipyard. We’re very proud that lately, not up to two years later, we will be able to give up the Mein Schiff 7 to TUI Cruises,” mentioned Meyer Turku’s CEO Tim Meyer because the handover happened.
TUI Cruises’ CEO Wybcke Meier approved the handover, announcing, “Ten years in the past, we picked up our first send of the Blu Movement magnificence right here in Turku. Mein Schiff 3 was once the primary new construct for TUI Cruises, and via 2019, we had constructed a complete of six ships. We thank the Meyer Turku shipyard for the very good cooperation and the improvement of our ‘feel-good’ fleet.”
Mein Schiff 7, which will probably be based totally in Kiel, Germany, is about to go away on a 2-night roundtrip christening voyage within the Bay of Kiel within the Danish Sea on June 12.
It is going to then sail on a 5-night “anticipation” adventure from Kiel to Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark, and Oslo, Norway, on June 16 ahead of launching absolutely into its inaugural season.
Cruises for the two,896-passenger and 1,000-crew send will vary from 8 to 17 days and discover Northern Europe, visiting Norway, Lithuania, Sweden, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Denmark, and different ports in Germany.
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The 7th send within the Mein Schiff fleet and the primary built for TUI Cruises since 2019, Mein Schiff 7 is a sister send to Mein Schiff 1 and Mein Schiff 2. “It gives many options that our visitors respect, together with a large number of new highlights in keeping with visitor comments,” mentioned Meier.
The brand new highlights come with a brand new design, further cabin classes, and 12 eating places and bistros throughout its 16 decks.
TUI Cruises Expands Fleet with Center of attention on Sustainability
Mein Schiff 7 would be the first send within the fleet to be operated completely with low-emission marine diesel and is provided with catalysts and a shore energy connection. The send was once constructed to run on methanol, together with inexperienced methanol one day, which is able to make the send’s propulsion nearly carbon impartial.
TUI Cruises is these days creating the methanol propulsion of four-stroke engines, because it but exists, and plans to equip the brand new send with them via 2026. It will be the first cruise send powered via methanol propulsion.
Designed to satisfy calls for for sustainability and potency, Mein Schiff 7 has additionally been provided with an leading edge waste processing gadget that thermally treats natural waste, shredding it and getting ready it for additional use on land.
Referred to as “HydroTreat,” the method makes use of warmth and force to split the liquid portions of the waste, that are then directed to the send’s personal wastewater remedy gadget. The forged waste portions are transformed into so-called BioChar, which is regarded as flexible in agriculture for soil development or as a feed additive.
TUI Cruises is additional increasing its Mein Schiff fleet with the addition of 2 new ships: the 160,000-gross-ton Mein Schiff Loosen up and Mein Schiff 9. Those vessels are these days beneath development on the Fincantieri shipyard in Italy and are scheduled to debut in 2025 and 2026, respectively.
