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Cruise ship ranking 2022

Overview of the results of the ranked cruise lines

The cruise market is speedy recovering after the corona restrictions. The following overview depict the detailed results of the cruise lines evaluated for the NABU cruise ship ranking 2022.

To align their business model with the interests of nature, environment and climate protection, the switch to emission-free drive technologies by 2040 at the latest is decisive. In a roadmap, NABU has summarized the requirements for a climate- and environmentally friendly cruise until 2040. The shipping companies below were evaluated according to the extent to which they are already planning and implementing the short-term and medium-term climate protection measures up to 2030.

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Cruise line
Stop of the use of heavy fuel oil
Paris Agreement
Climate strategy
Current climate neutral new ships
Efficiency measures
Climate protection measures*
Shore power
Nitrogen oxide catalysts
Future climate neutral new ships
Climate neutral retrofit-ships
Soot particle filters
Hurtigruten Norway
✔
✔
✔
✔
✖
✔
✔
✔
✔
♦
✖
Aida Cruises
✖
✔
✔
✔
♦
✔✔
✔
♦
✔
✖
✖
Hapag-Lloyd Cruises
✔
✔
✔
✔
✖
✖
✔
♦
✔
✔
✖
Ponant
✔
✔
✔
✖
✖
✔♦
♦
✔
✔
♦
✖
TUI Cruises
✖
✔
✔
♦
♦
✔
♦
♦
✔
✔
✖
Hurtigruten Expeditions
✔
✔
✔
✖
✖
✔
✔
♦
✔
✖
✖
Viking Ocean Cruises
✖
✖
✖
✔
✖
✔
✔
✖
✔
✔
✖
Carnival Cruise Line**
✖
✔
♦
✖
✔
✔
♦
✖
✖
✖
✖
MSC
✖
✔
✔
✖
✖
✔
♦
♦
✖
✖
✖
Norwegian Cruise Lines
✖
✔
✔
✖
✖
♦
♦
♦
✖
✖
✖
Royal Caribbean***
✖
✔
✔
✖
✖
✖
♦
♦
♦
✖
✖
Costa Cruises
✖
✔
✔
✖
✖
✖
♦
✖
✖
✖
✖
Phönix Reisen
✔
♦
✖
✖
✖
✖
♦
♦
✖
✖
✖
Marella
✖
✖
✖
✖
✖
✖
✖
✖
✖
✖
✖

Captions

NABU has used the following marking to analyse the cruise lines:

✔ = 1 point
♦ = 0,5 points
✖ = 0 points

*Up to five points could be achieved with climate protection measures. Among other things, with the use of fuel cells, batteries, e-fuels, wind support or other measures such as the development of climate-neutral drives.
**the rating includes the following subcompanies: Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises, Cunard
***the rating includes the following subcompany: Celebrity Cruises


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