AIDAbella
 The AIDAbella at the pier in Ísafjörður
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The AIDAbella is a cruise ship from Carnival Corporation & plc . It is used for trips under the AIDA Cruises group brand , which is specially geared towards the German market . It is operated under the Italian flag by Costa Crociere in Genoa .
The AIDAbella is the fifth “club ship” of the AIDA fleet and, apart from minor differences, is identical in construction to its seven sister ships in the Sphinx class , especially the AIDAdiva and AIDAluna, which were commissioned a year before or after it .
history
The Aida Bella as her sister ships from the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg built. It was the second new building completed for Costa Crociere and an extension of the contract signed with the shipyard in October 2004. Their project name was therefore AIDA SPHINX III . The AIDAluna , which was only commissioned in 2009 after the original order, was counted as the SPHINX II . The keel was laid on March 10, 2007. On March 27, 2008, the ship was transferred across the Ems from Papenburg to Emden . On April 14, 2008, the shipyard delivered the 69,200 GT club ship in Emden to the shipping company AIDA Cruises (Rostock). The German model Eva Padberg was the godmother at the christening ceremony on April 23, 2008 on the Warnow in Warnemünde . On April 24th the maiden voyage started from Warnemünde and took seven days back to Warnemünde via Bergen , Oslo , Gothenburg and Copenhagen .
The AIDAbella was included in the Guinness Book of Records for a campaign in autumn 2010 : It was noted as the cruise ship that could drag a water-ski driver behind it the longest . TV reporter Jan Schwiderek skied six minutes and 25 seconds in Alicante Bay at a speed of 14 knots.
Technical data and equipment
The ship is powered by diesel-electric technology . The four main engines from Caterpillar MaK (type: 9M43C) afford 9.000 kW . The two drive motors from Siemens (type: 1DM5650-8DS06-Z) have a total output of 25,000 kW. The drive motors act on two fixed propellers. The rudder is a "full balanced twisted rudder".
The ship has several transverse thruster systems , two with an output of 2,300 kW each in the bow and two with an output of 1,500 kW each in the stern.
There are 1,025 passenger cabins on board. For the passengers are u. a. seven restaurants with a total area of 3,985 m², eleven bars as well as “Body & Soul” areas with an area of 2,300 m² and a total of 6,400 m² sun decks are available.
Routes
In the summer of 2016, the AIDAbella will sail the Adriatic from Venice with calls in Corfu , Bari , Dubrovnik and Zadar . After three transfer trips with the exchange ports of Limassol and Cochin , AIDAbella will be driving a 14-day route in Southeast Asia with stops in Malaysia , Thailand , Singapore , Vietnam and Cambodia, as in the previous year . The port of entry is Laem Chabang near Bangkok .
It was planned to outsource the AIDAbella from the German cruise market from spring 2017 and to market it exclusively on the Chinese market for cruises from Shanghai . Therefore, the last Southeast Asia route was canceled and replaced by a one-time, two-week transfer trip from Laem Chabang to Shanghai, their new base port. For the first time in the history of the shipping company, Da Nang , Sanya , Hong Kong , Taipei and Ishigaki will also be called . Shortly after the marketing of AIDAbella on the Chinese market began on August 9, the shipping company announced in September 2016 that AIDAbella would not be used on the Chinese market as planned. The trip to Shanghai should go ahead as planned. Subsequently entering Aidabella drive in three stages back to the western Mediterranean.
At the end of April 2018, there will be a transfer trip from the Mediterranean Sea to the Baltic Sea, stations are: Palma de Mallorca, Valencia, Sevilla / Cadiz, Porto / Leixoes, La Coruna, Paris / Le Havre to the destination in Kiel.
The route Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore will be offered again from January to March 2019.
literature
- New club ship in the market . In: HANSA . Schiffahrts-Verlag Hansa C. Schroedter & Co, Hamburg, 2008,5, pp. 38-45. ISSN 0017-7504
- Stefanie Widmann: Long-distance travel light? - The “Aida Bella” drives its passengers through the tropical warmth of Southeast Asia in winter: a broad program on board and a few hours ashore ; Wiesbaden Courier ( VRM ); Saturday March 10, 2018; P. 10
Web links
- AIDAbella on the AIDA Cruises website
- Tour plan up to 2015 (PDF file; 290 kB)
- Position / bow camera
- Photos from a trip to the Canary Islands
Individual evidence
- ↑ AIDA Cruises orders another club ship. July 13, 2005, accessed October 30, 2015 .
- ↑ history. Retrieved December 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Keel laying of the second club ship. March 10, 2007, accessed October 30, 2015 .
- ↑ AIDAbella breaks Guinness Book record: cruise ship pulls water skiers through the Mediterranean. Press release. In: AIDA Cruises. October 4, 2010, accessed August 5, 2015 .
- ↑ Aida Cruises sends “Aidabella” to China. In: Ostsee Zeitung. November 5, 2015, accessed March 22, 2016 .
- ↑ AIDA starts marketing AIDAbella in China. In: AIDA Cruises. August 9, 2016. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
- ↑ AIDA Cruises presents the largest variety of holiday options in the 2017/2018 catalog. In: AIDA Cruises. September 15, 2016, accessed September 20, 2016 .