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Flagship Cunard Cruise Ship Relaunched After Scrubber Installations
UK-based cruise line Cunard Line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc (Carnival), has relaunched its flagship 148,528 gross tonne vessel, Queen Mary 2, after it was fitted with four new scrubbers and corresponding exhaust gas filters, among a number of other improvements.
She joins Cunard Line's other two vessels, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth that have already been fitted with the exhaust gas cleaning systems, with the cruise line previously saying the move was "in line with Cunard's commitment to minimising the company's environmental impact."
Improvements to the vessel, which included the installation of new drives, maintenance of the three bow thrusters, a paint job, and new cabins, are said to have been conducted over 25 days at Germany's Blohm + Voss' Hamburg shipyard at a cost of about $132 million.
Following the refit and launch last month, Queen Mary 2 has now resumed its schedule of transatlantic crossings, arriving in itx U.S. home port of Brooklyn, New York on July 6.
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