EUROPA WORLD (W34 – World class ships)

Location:  FRANCE

Client: Chantiers de L’Atlantique

Final Client: MSC Cruises

Development: 2020-2021

Vessel Type: Cruise

Number of passengers: 6.762

Number of cabins: 2.634

Narrative description of the project:

This series will be the largest units ever built for an European owner and feature a large number of outstanding technologies for a renewed guest experience on board. MSC World Class series will be provided with a liquefied natural gas (LNG) propulsion system setting new milestones in the greenhouse gas emission being the less emissive one per passenger and per day. The use of LNG fuel will allow also to reduce by 99% the SOx emissions and by 85% the NOx ones. Another groundbreaking R&D project named PACBOAT will be tested on board the MSC Europa consisting in the integration of a new fuel cell technology demonstrator onboard.

GHENOVA scope of works:

Detailed Engineering

Detail engineering

Hull industrialization works for 46 blocks.

Outfitting detail design, 18 Lots among FZ3 and FZ6

Lifting calculations (248 blocks)

Double-walled cryogenic pipes flexibility calculations