The future of power generating as well as propulsion drives on board of passenger- and especially luxury cruise-ships seems to lie in Azimuthing Podded Electric Propulsion Drives (»Azipod«). What does this mean? The advantages of diesel-elec-tric power generation and consequently electric propulsion drives on board of passenger ships is known. Power, needed in all different departments of the vessel, is generated by diesel engines via gensets in the form of electric power/current which via cables is led to locations where it is needed. Propulsion is arranged via electric motors over a short shaft-line to the propellers. The whole hotel complex is served by different current lines. To bring the propeller further down into free water, away from the hull, and to make it freely rotating could be a big advantage in manoeuvrability.
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