EVAC offers a quieter toilet

Leading cruise and ferry vacuum toilet specialist EVAC, has launched its latest system, the EVAC 910, which the Helsinki-based company claims is the quietest vacuum toilet available in the cruise industry today, with a discharge noise of just 4 dB and a peak noise of around 8dB.

The EVAC 910 has already been fitted aboard two river cruise vessels built by Germany’s Neptun Werft for operator Arosa, and delivered at the end of 2008. Meanwhile, 4,000 of the new vacuum toilets will be supplied to RCCL’s new Allure of the Seas, currently building at Finland’s STX Europe, and due for delivery in 2010.

From now on, all of Evac’s cruise ship newbuilding contracts will be fitted with the new EVAC 910 system.

Phoenix Seereisen buys Albatros
Germany’s Phoenix Seereisen has bought Holland’s Cruise Club’s Albatros, following the collapse of the Dutch owner. Albatros has been on charter to Phoenix for a number of years. Phoenix is also looking to buy another Club Cruise vessel it has on charter, the Alexander von Humboldt.

V. Ships Leisure, meanwhile, will handle the management of Albatros for the ship’s new German owner. Sphere: Related Content

TEAM in major Spanish passenger boarding bridge contracts

One of the world’s leading designers and suppliers of passenger boarding bridges for cruise ships and ferries, Spain’s TEAM, has secured more contracts at domestic cruise ship ports.

The Barcelona-based company has just secured a contract from Malaga Cruceros SA to deliver in the spring of 2009 two of its Pegasus-type of passenger boarding bridges for the Estacion Maritima de Levante cruise terminal in the port of Malaga.

This new cruise terminal has been in operation for just under 12 months and handled 270 cruise calls and 335,000 passengers in 2008, and increase of 14.5% on figures for 2007.

Earlier this year TEAM delivered a single Pegasus passenger boarding bridge for the south berth of the new Malaga cruise terminal. Summer 2009 will see the completion of the construction of the north berth, where the two recently ordered bridges will be located.

Meanwhile, in a separate contract, TEAM is to design and supply a new type of passenger boarding bridge for Creuers del Port de Barcelona. Named the Creuers Barcelona-class of bridge, the two units will be delivered in the summer of 2009 and is designed to fit the largest cruise ship in the world, RCCL’s Oasis of the Seas. The large new passenger boarding bridges will operate at the A & B cruise terminals on the Adossado Quay in Barcelona.

One of the main design challenges for TEAM in the design of the Creuers Barcelona-class of bridge is the 6m clearance that needs to be provided for the overhanging lifeboats of Oasis of the Seas and her sisters. Sphere: Related Content