Peace Boat’s Ecoship Project will be one of the members showcasing their initiatives in the International Windship Association (IWSA) booth, A301 at the SMM trade fair next month. The Ecoship team will announce the latest developments in the project, as well as organise a special event to call for suppliers for its varied technological needs.
With architectural naval design by Spanish company Oliver Design, the Ecoship Project is the brainchild of Peace Boat, which has grown from its foundation in 1983. Working on social business lines, it runs three around the world cruises out of Japan per year with over 300,000passenger nights annually. The Ecoship Project will create a ship for Peace Boat’s educational voyages, while sailing as a flagship for climate action and developing sustainable energy solutions for the cruise and shipping industry. The Ecoship’s design was publicly announced at COP21 in December 2015.
Planned to sail in 2020, this whole-system, future-ready 55,000 ton cruise ship has been developed by a team of over 30 engineers, scientists and thinkers from the fields of ship-building and cutting-edge eco-technology.
On September 7, Peace Boat will lead a three-hour event at the IWSA Innovation Forum, located in the new A5 Hall, which is specialising in sustainable and alternative propulsion solutions. The event will begin with a general presentation of the project, its main environmental features and innovations. It will concentrate on five aspects for which further technological inputs and elaboration is needed:
10:30 to 11:00 LNG propulsion and LNG tank makers
11:00 to 11:30 Waste Energy recovery
11:30 to 12:00 Waste and Water recycling
12:00 to 12:30 Solar panels-solar energy
12:30 to 13:00 HVAC systems
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