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The Aida Nova is a cruise ship the Helios class of Carnival Corporation & plc . It entered service for the AIDA Cruises brand in December 2018 . In 2019, it was the first cruise ship to be awarded the Blue Angel for environmentally friendly ship design.
General
The AIDAnova is the first ship in the Helios class. These are cruise ships that are being built on behalf of Carnival Corporation & plc by Meyer Werft GmbH in Papenburg, Meyer Turku in Turku and Neptun Werft in Rostock .
The ship is the first cruise ship that can be operated entirely on liquid natural gas (LNG) . The supply of the ship with the lowest emission marine fuel is made for the Canaries Tour in Tenerife by the LNG - tanker cardissa by Shell.
history
After AIDA Cruises had seven Sphinx-class ships built at Meyer Werft between 2007 and 2013 , two Hyperion-class ships were built at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan between 2013 and 2017 . However, the next three ships for AIDA Cruises will again come from the German Meyer Werft. In March 2015, Carnival Corporation & plc and Meyer Werft agreed a letter of intent for four ships with delivery between 2019 and 2022, before this was converted into an order on June 15, 2015. Contrary to the original plan, the AIDAnova was not delivered at the beginning of 2019, but at the end of 2018.
The first steel cut, which marked the start of construction of the ship, took place at the Meyer shipyard on February 21, 2017. The keel laying of the AIDAnova took place on September 6, 2017.
Two midship sections were built at the Neptun shipyard in Rostock and transferred to the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg in September and December 2017 .
As part of Meyer Werft's construction strategy , a first 140 meter long section was undocked on December 11, 2017. A second section followed on February 16, 2018 to allow the Norwegian Bliss to undock . Both sections were then re-docked. On August 21, 2018, the ship left the construction dock.
The AIDAnova was christened on August 31, 2018 in Papenburg . The ship was transferred to Eemshaven from October 8 to 9, 2018 .
On the night of October 23 to 24, 2018, there was a fire on board in Eemshaven. The Dutch police are investigating whether the cause of the fire in two cabins was due to arson. The handover to the client, initially planned for November 15, 2018 in Bremerhaven, has been postponed, as have the first test drives. According to the shipyard, there are other reasons for the delay in addition to the fire. From November 6, 2018 to November 13, the ship went on the first test voyage from Eemshaven.
The maiden voyage was originally supposed to take place on December 2nd from Hamburg to the Canary Islands . On November 16, 2018 it was announced that the planned maiden voyage and the following voyages will not take place. The delivery of the ship was scheduled for the second week in December. According to the shipyard, the reason for the delayed completion is that the public areas of the ship, for example the theater, were not completed. The shipyard emphasized that the LNG drive was not the cause of the delays and that it worked.
On the evening of November 16, 2018, the AIDAnova left Eemshaven for the second test run, it ended there on November 24, 2018. On December 2, 2018, the ship completed its third test run, which ended again on December 4, 2018 in Eemshaven. The ship was delivered in Bremerhaven on December 12, 2018 . On the same day the ship left Bremerhaven and was transferred to Tenerife on December 16, 2018 in Lisbon with one interruption . There the ship was put into service on December 19, 2018 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife .
Furnishing
The AIDAnova houses 16 restaurants - in addition to the market restaurant , East Restaurant, Bella Donna Restaurant and brewery known for the AIDA fleet , it also includes other specialty restaurants for fish dishes, Asian cuisine and burgers. There are also 23 bars for various drinks and snacks. The entertainment program includes a climbing path, a water slide, the Theatrium, which is known for AIDA ships, the Studio X with 500 seats, in which TV shows can be produced, and an escape room (mystery room) . On deck 18 there is a sun deck with a pool. Similar to the AIDAprima, part of the pool area has a foil roof.
The hotel part of the Aida Nova total includes 21 cab variants of single cabins with balcony cabins to spacious penthouse - suites .
Sister ships
The AIDAnova is the lead ship of the Helios class. Nine of these ships are to be built for Carnival Corporation & plc by 2023 , including three for AIDA Cruises.
commitment
On 19 December 2018 22:00 The maiden journey which started Aida Nova from Santa Cruz de Tenerife , Canary Islands . In the premiere season, AIDAnova will be running weekly cruises around the Canary Islands from Gran Canaria and Tenerife in winter 2018/19 . Besides Gran Canaria and Tenerife, the ports of Madeira , Fuerteventura and Lanzarote are called.
In the 2019 summer season, the ship will be in service in the western Mediterranean from Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona . Civitavecchia near Rome, La Spezia and Marseille will also be called on a one-week trip . Then there will be another deployment around the Canaries in winter 2019/20.
The first central nave section on the Kiel Canal
Floating parts of the AIDAnova
Stern of the AIDAnova
Web links
- The website Aida Nova at aida.de
- AIDA Cruises awarded the German Gas Industry Innovation Prize on aida.de
- Presentation of Aida Nova at kreuzfahrt-praxis.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ AIDA Helios class. In: schiffe-und-kreuzfahrten.de. 2017, Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
- ^ Cruise Ship Orderbook. In: cruiseindustrynews.com. Cruise Industry News, accessed November 15, 2017 .
- ↑ AIDAnova is the name of the first ship in the Helios class. In: meyerwerft.de. Meyer Werft , accessed November 2, 2017 .
- ↑ a b The next one, please: Keel laying of the “AIDAnova”. In: ndr.de. Norddeutscher Rundfunk , September 6, 2017, archived from the original on September 6, 2017 ; accessed on November 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Sensational feedback for the AIDA Open Air with the christening of AIDAnova. In: digitaldaily.de. Presseportal.de , March 10, 2018, archived from the original on April 6, 2018 ; accessed on August 15, 2019 .
- ↑ AIDAnova starts the premiere season around the Canary Islands & Madeira. In: aida.de. AIDA Cruises , December 19, 2018, accessed on December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Highlights on AIDAnova. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ RINA: AIDAnova. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
- ↑ a b AIDA Cruises takes over AIDAnova. In: meyerwerft.de. Meyer Werft , December 12, 2018, accessed on August 13, 2019 .
- ↑ AIDAnova awarded the Blue Angel for environmentally friendly ship design. In: blau-engel.de. RAL German Institute for Quality Assurance and Labeling e. V., August 12, 2019, accessed on August 12, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Tobias Bruns: Meyer Werft: Construction of the new AIDA ship generation begins - the first cruise ship with LNG propulsion. In: schiffsjournal.de. Schiffsjournal, February 21, 2017, accessed November 2, 2017 .
- ↑ IMO 9765079
- ↑ AIDAnova starts the premiere season around the Canary Islands & Madeira. In: presseportal.de. news aktuell , December 19, 2018, accessed on December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Carnival Corporation forges strategic partnerships to add nine cruise ships to its fleet starting in 2019. In: meyerwerft.de. Meyer Werft , March 27, 2015, accessed on April 27, 2017 .
- ↑ AIDA Cruises awards billions in orders to Meyer Werft in Papenburg. In: meyerwerft.de. Meyer Werft , June 15, 2015, accessed on March 31, 2018 .
- ↑ AIDA Open Air with christening of AIDAnova and David Guetta concert on August 31, 2018 in Papenburg. In: aida.de. AIDA Cruises , March 6, 2018, accessed on March 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Brand aan boord van cruiseschip AidaNova is mogelijk aangestoken. In: eemskrant.nl. October 24, 2018, accessed August 15, 2019 (Dutch).
- ↑ Fire on "AIDAnova": Was it arson? In: ndr.de. Norddeutscher Rundfunk , November 2, 2018, accessed on August 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Deliver AIDAnova in the well-known Meyer quality. In: meyerwerft.de. Meyer Werft , October 25, 2018, accessed on November 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Delivery of the "AIDAnova" is delayed. In: ndr.de . Norddeutscher Rundfunk , October 25, 2018, accessed on November 25, 2018.
- ↑ Christoph Assies: AIDAnova test drive was successful. In: noz.de . Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , November 13, 2018, accessed on November 25, 2018.
- ↑ Christoph Assies and Karsten Grosser: Meyer ship “AIDAnova” set out for a test drive. In: noz.de . Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , November 7, 2018, accessed on November 25, 2018.
- ↑ Handover of AIDAnova is delayed. In: aida.de. AIDA Cruises , accessed on November 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Handover of the AIDAnova in December. In: meyerwerft.de. Meyer Werft , November 16, 2018, accessed on November 16, 2018 .
- ↑ The maiden voyage of the “AIDAnova” has been canceled. In: ndr.de. Norddeutscher Rundfunk , November 16, 2018, accessed on November 17, 2018 .
- ↑ AIDAnova deck plans. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: aida.de. AIDA Cruises , 2018, accessed on December 27, 2018 .
- ↑ AIDAnova brochure. (PDF; 3.9 MB) In: aida.de. AIDA Cruises , 2018, accessed on December 27, 2018 .
- ↑ AIDAnova: Canary Islands & Madeira Cruises. In: schiffe-und-kreuzfahrten.de. 2017, accessed November 2, 2017 .