Refuelling, Costa Cruises heads for Barcelona

Genoa - “For a group that carries more than five million cruise passengers,” Beniamino Maltese, a Costa Cruises (Carnival Group) Senior Vice President, explained, “it is natural to invest in sustainable transportation.” Maltese spoke yesterday in Genoa at the second “Passenger Ships and Environment” Forum. The Costa manager emphasised that currently two of the Genoa-based company’s twenty-seven cruise ships are dual fuel powered. He added, “We have installed scrubbers on the others to lower emissions, it is an important investment we have made in recent years to support the development of increasingly eco-sustainable technologies. Every scrubber in fact costs from four to six million euros.” A revealing fact about the Italian situation is that Costa was forced to choose Barcelona as an LNG refuelling port.