ALSTOM to Supply Electric Propulsion Systems for Carnival Corp’s Two New Cruise Ships
19 May 2005
The power conversion business of ALSTOM has just been awarded a multi-million euro contract by Fincantieri to supply electric propulsion systems for two new cruise ships, one for Carnival Cruises to be built at the Marghera yard and one for Costa Crociere to be built at the Sestri Ponente yard in Genoa.
Both ships are to be delivered in the first half of 2007 and are the sister ships of Carnival Liberty and Costa Concordia, currently being built at Fincantieri with an ALSTOM electric propulsion system, and are expected to be delivered in summer 2005 and summer 2006 respectively.
The new ships will be used for year-round worldwide cruising. The Carnival Cruises ship will carry 3,710 passengers and the Costa will carry 3,800 passengers. For each vessel, ALSTOM will supply two synchronous propulsion motors: 20MW for Carnival and 21MW for Costa, and the associated electric drives. ALSTOM will also provide the propulsion control systems including remote control as well as the harmonic filtering and 11kV distribution systems.
Pierre Simon, Director of the Sales and Projects department within ALSTOM Power Conversion France said: "Our customers appreciate working with us and the trust they put in ALSTOM leads them to award us new orders. Our orderbook includes major references and confirms our marketleading position for electrical propulsion and control systems in mainly, but not only, cruise ships. We're always striving to optimise our technologies, our project management and our services and to deploy all our skills for the success of our customers. This new order seems to say that we are proceeding in the right way!"
