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Building the World's First LNG-Powered Cruise Ship

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AIDAnova is the largest cruise ship ever built in Germany.

It's the world’s first ever ocean liner with an liquid natural gas drive system, which prevents the release of particulate matter and sulphur oxides and significantly reduces the emission of nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide.

MEYERWERFT spent ten years developing the vessel.

It's the first gas-powered ship in the Helios Class — two structurally identical sister ships followed.

Three tanks in the belly of the ship can hold around 3,500 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas, enough to fuel a two-week cruise.

The gas is cooled to -162°C to turn it into a liquid.

AIDAnova has 2,626 staterooms on 20 decks.

The ship joined the AIDA fleet at the end of 2018.

In 1800, 1 in 3 people on earth were Chinese. Today, it's less than 1 in 5.

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Translucent File Tote — 'For those with nothing to hide'

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