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AIDAnova cruise vessel

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Built as a cruise passenger ship under yard No 696 by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany for Costa Crociere Spa, Italy.
06 September 2017 laid down.
21 August 2018 launched as the AIDAnova.
31 August 2018 christened
Tonnage 183.858 grt, 17,986 dwt, dim. 337.0 x 42.0 x 11.80m., length bpp. 324.95m, draught 8.60m.
Powered, diesel-electric by 4 Caterpillar-MaK 16VM446DF (each 15,440 kW), Two electro motors, total power 61,760 kW (83,970 hp), two Azimuth pods, speed 17 knots.
Accommodation for 6,654 passengers in 2,626 cabins, crew 1645.
12 December 2018 completed.
19 December 2018 in service, managed by Carnival Maritime GMBH, Hamburg.
Homeport Genova, Italy, IMO No 9781865.

The Aida Nova is a cruise ship the Helios class of Carnival Corporation & plc. It entered service for the AIDA Cruises brand in December 2018. In 2019, it was the first cruise ship to be awarded the Blue Angel for environmentally friendly ship design.

General
The AIDAnova is the first ship in the Helios class. These are cruise ships that are being built on behalf of Carnival Corporation & plc by Meyer Werft GmbH in Papenburg, Meyer Turku in Turku, Finland, and Neptun Werft in Rostock.
The ship is the first cruise ship that can be operated entirely on liquefied natural gas (LNG) . The supply of the ship with the lowest emission marine fuel is carried out for the Canary Islands tour in Tenerife by the LNG - tanker CARDISSA from Shell.
The Aida Nova was commissioned in 2018 with 183,858 gross tonnage, the fifth largest cruise ship and is currently the seventh-largest cruise ship in the world (as of October 2021).

History
After AIDA Cruises had seven Sphinx-class ships built at Meyer-Werft between 2007 and 2013, two Hyperion-class ships were built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan between 2013 and 2017. However, the next three ships for AIDA Cruises will again come from the German Meyer Werft. In March 2015, Carnival Corporation & plc and Meyer Werft initially agreed on a letter of intent for four ships with delivery between 2019 and 2022, before this was converted into order on June 15, 2015. Contrary to the original plan, the AIDAnova however was not delivered in early 2019 but delivered in late 2018.
The ship was ordered on February 21, 2017. The keel of the AIDAnova was laid in September 2017.
Two midship sections were built at the Neptun shipyard in Rostock and transferred to the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg in September and December 2017, respectively.
As part of Meyer Werft's construction strategy, the first 140-meter-long section was undocked on December 11, 2017. A second section followed on February 16, 2018 to allow the NORWEGIAN BLISS to undock. Both sections were then re-docked. The ship left the construction dock on August 21, 2018.
An open-air concert with David Guetta took place on August 31, 2018, for the christening of AIDAnova in Papenburg. The baptism itself was carried out by a Hessian family who had previously been selected by a jury. From October 8 to 9, 2018, the ship was transferred to Eemshaven.

On the night of October 23 to 24, 2018, there was a fire on board in Eemshaven. The Dutch police are investigating whether the cause of the fire in two cabins was arson. On the first of 15 November, 2018 Bremerhaven planned handover to the client as well as postponed the first sea trials. According to the shipyard, there is next to the fire further reasons for the delay. from 6 November 2018 through November 13, the ship went from Eemshaven on her first sea trial.
The maiden voyage was originally supposed to take place on December 2nd from Hamburg to the Canary Islands. On November 16, 2018, it was announced that the planned maiden voyage and the subsequent trips will not take place. The delivery of the ship was scheduled for the second week in December. According to the shipyard, the reason for the delayed completion is that the public areas of the ship, for example, the theater, were not completed. The shipyard emphasized that the LNG drive was not the cause of the delays and that it worked in order.
On the evening of November 16, 2018, the AIDAnova left Eemshaven for the second sea trial, it ended there on November 24, 2018. On December 2, 2018, the ship completed its third sea trial, which ended again on December 4, 2018, in Eemshaven. The ship was delivered in Bremerhaven on December 12, 2018. On the same day, the ship left Bremerhaven and was with a call on December 16, 2018, at Lisbon to Tenerife transferred. There the ship was put into service on December 19, 2018, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Equipment
The AIDAnova houses 16 restaurants - in addition to the market restaurant, East Restaurant, Bella Donna Restaurant, and Brauhaus, which are known for the AIDA fleet, it also includes other specialty restaurants for fish dishes, Asian cuisine, and burgers, among other things. There are also 23 bars for various drinks and snacks. The entertainment program includes a climbing path, a water slide, the Theatrium known for AIDA ships, the Studio X with 500 seats, in which TV shows can be produced, and an escape room (mystery room). On deck 18 there is a sundeck with a pool. Part of the pool area is similar to that of the AIDAprima is provided with a foil roof.
The hotel part of the Aidanova total includes 21 cab variants of single cabins with balcony cabins to the spacious penthouse - suites.
Sister ships Helios class
The AIDAnova is the lead ship of the Helios class. Nine of these ships are to be built for Carnival Corporation & plc by 2023, including three for AIDA Cruises.

Use
On 19 December 2018 22:00, The maiden voyage started AIDAnova from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands. In the premiere season, AIDAnova will be running weekly cruises around the Canary Islands from Gran Canaria and Tenerife in winter 2018/19. Besides Gran Canaria and Tenerife, the ports of the islands Madeira, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote are called.
In the 2019 summer season, the ship was in service in the western Mediterranean from Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona, Civitavecchia near Rome, La Spezia, and Marseille will also be called on a one-week trip Then there was another deployment around the Canary Islands in winter 2019/20.

December 2021 at anchor at the Scheveningen anchorage off the coast of the Netherlands, An anchor position for cruise vessels during the Covid epidemic.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDAnova (Google translated)
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