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MSC is part of a global effort to reduce carbon emissions and make cruising more sustainable

MSC’s commitment to the future is outlined in our latest Sustainability Action Plan. We’re working on several fronts: reducing our greenhouse-gas emissions from our marine operations to net-zero, using resources wisely, supporting the places we visit, taking care of our team and guests, and choosing our suppliers carefully. These efforts organised into our main areas of action – reducing emissions, protecting the ocean and using resources efficiently to show our dedication to protecting the environment, supporting our communities, and ensuring a sustainable future for cruising.

MSC Initiatives

Improving Air Emissions

As part of a broader approach to limit Sulphur and other emissions in ports and in specific operating areas, we are taking various steps to improve our performance.
• Today: 11 of 17 MSC Cruises ships will be equipped with exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) to reduce Sulphur from ship emissions by 97 per cent through a system which can be operated in closed-loop, representing 74% of our total berths.

• By the end of 2023: 100 per cent of the MSC Cruises fleet ships will be equipped with EGCS.

• MSC Grandiosa is also our first to have a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system, which helps reducing nitrogen oxide (NOx) from the ship exhaust and transforms it into harmless nitrogen (N2) and water, through advanced active emissions control technology. SCR will be on all future ships. And will be retrofitted where possible on our longer-serving ships.

• All MSC Cruises ships which have come into service since 2017 are fitted with shore-to-ship power so they are fully ready to connect to a local electrical power grid in order to reduce emissions while at berth in port.

Water Production & Preservation

As a general rule, we do not take away water from ports and coastal communities
Virtually all of the fresh water that we use on board – to drink, prepare food, do the laundry or operate the shop – is self-produced.

Fresh Water Production Plants are present across our entire fleet and can transform up to three million liters of seawater into drinking water in one day

Purifying Wastewater Into Clean Water

Purifying wastewater into clean water All black wastewater, sewage, is treated on board ships and our practices go above regulatory requirements. No black wastewater leaves any ship without proper treatment and purification
• MSC Cruises in 2008 started to equip ships with state-of-the-art Advanced Wastewater Treatment Systems (AWTS) that purify used wastewater to near tap-water quality before releasing it in the sea.

• Cooking oil, oily water and cleaning products are never discharged into the sea but offloaded ashore.

Exploring New Technologies and Solutions

We will keep exploring and developing new solutions for our future ships as well as existing ships and will equip our fleet with even more innovative solutions for a lower environmental impact. .
• We will power some of our future ships with Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Compared to standard marine diesel using conventional fuel, LNG reduces Sulphur oxide emissions by more than 99 per cent and nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 85 per cent. It also largely eliminates particulate matter in the exhaust systems and further reduces CO2 emissions by 20% versus existing maritime fuel.

• Our first LNG-powered ship, MSC Europa, will enter into service in 2022. Others will follow in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2027. We are on a continuous path to explore all possible future clean and leading-edge technologies and are actively studying their viability with our potential suppliers.

Energy Efficiency

From the first line we draw on paper when we design a new ship, to the final light bulb we install, energy efficiency is always the first element we take into consideration.

We have one of the most modern fleets of cruise ships at sea and have designed and developed six different ship classes. Every class always pushes the level of excellence of the earlier ship.
• The hulls of our ships are coated with special environmentally-friendly paints which impedes the growth of barnacles, algae and marine organisms to reduce drag significantly.

• A software application to monitor and optimize trim, the ship’s stability keeping the vessel’s trim optimized to reduce fuel consumption.

• All ships have smart heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems (HVAC). Two high and low-heat recovery loops to redistribute heat and cold intelligently from the laundry room and machinery spaces to warm up the swimming pools and other parts of the ship.

• Ships only use energy efficient LED and florescent lighting.

• Compared to our earlier Fantasia ship class which entered service between 2008-2013, our latest ship MSC Grandiosa requires 28 per cent less fuel per passenger, which represents a reduction of 255kg less carbon dioxide per passenger, per cruise.

Learn about MSC's preservation of an abandoned industrial island

Watch this 3 episode documentary by National Geographic on how MSC transformed Salt Cay, an industrial wasteland south of Bimini, into Ocean Cay.  Click anywhere on this box to watch! (this will direct you to TUBI)

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