In Norway, stringent emission regulations (zero NOX and CO2 emissions) have recently been announced for cruise ships in the Norwegian World Heritage Fjords and will be implemented from January 1, 2026. New Green Ferries already meets the criteria with their hybrid cruise ship design and are therefore considering deploying these ships in Scandinavia/Norway and in the Mediterranean.
Unlike many of the large cruise ships on order/under construction with passenger capacities of up to 8,000 and little emphasis on low/zero emission, NGF has been working on ordering two smaller environmentally-friendly hybrid cruise ships.
Since many of the smaller ports do not offer shore power, the NGF cruise ships can use their own power plants, with batteries/fuel cells to provide sufficient shore power with ZERO emissions.
The special power plant on the ships will consist of several multi-fuel power systems, combining large batteries, windmills/solar cells, fuel cells (running on a fully enclosed ammonia cracking system), biodiesel/biofuels and also standard clean MDO, all as required and available.
