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AIDA cares 2018: Growth with Responsibility

In its Sustainability Report AIDA cares 2018,the cruise company publishes current facts and figures on the status of itsenvironmental and sustainability commitment and provides an outlook on furtherprojects

"It is AIDA Cruises' declared goal to reduce theentire fleet's emissions to the minimum. We support the Paris and InternationalMaritime Organisation climate targets and invest millions of euros every yearin the development and practical implementation of new and efficientenvironmental technologies aboard our ships," said Felix Eichhorn, PresidentAIDA Cruises, on the occasion of the presentation of the current SustainabilityReport AIDA cares 2018.

AIDA Cruises is conscious of its responsibilitiesand has been doing pioneering work for years in the areas of developingalternative methods of propulsion. The company invested in liquefied naturalgas (LNG) as a propulsion technology before it ever became a major issue in theindustry. This strategy is paying off: In 2023 more than half of all AIDACruises' guests will be traveling on cruise ships that are powered eitherpartially or entirely with low-emission LNG.

New methods of generating energy such aspower-to-gas have the potential to enable LNG production entirely without CO₂,bringing us another step closer to climate-neutral cruising. AIDA Cruises supportsvarious projects conducting research in these areas. In 2022 AIDA Cruises plansto test the use of batteries as an energy source in ship operation for thefirst time on a ship in its fleet.

LNGcurrently in use during port operations with dual-fuel engines

In 2011, AIDA Cruises was the first cruise companyto opt for low-emission LNG as it commissioned the building of AIDAprima andAIDAperla. Thanks to a dual-fuel engine on board, both of these ships canproduce low-emission power from LNG while in port – an average of 40 percent oftheir operating time. To achieve this, shoreside provision of LNG is requiredin the respective port. The emission ofparticulates and sulfur oxides is almost entirely avoided and emissions ofnitrous oxides and CO₂ are decreased sustainably.

In early 2016 AIDA Cruises first proved thepracticability of this innovative technology with AIDAprima. On May 7, 2016,the world's first LNG operation of a cruise ship took place on the occasion ofthe christening in Hamburg.

At present LNG can be made available in the portsof Hamburg (Germany), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Le Havre (France), Southampton(UK), Zeebrugge (Belgium), Funchal (Madeira/Portugal), and Barcelona (Spain). Inother ports of the Mediterranean, such as Marseille (France) or Civitavecchia(Italy), LNG operation is scheduled to open in 2018.

Talks are also being held with the ports of Palmade Mallorca (Spain) and Kiel (Germany).

Firstfully LNG-operated cruise ship in 2018

In November 2018, AIDA Cruises will commissionAIDAnova – the world's first cruise ship that can be powered entirely with low-emissionLNG both in port and at sea. By 2023, two more AIDA ships of this newgeneration will follow, which will be built at the Meyer Werft shipyard inPapenburg (Germany).

Of all the fossil fuels available, LNG is currentlythe most environmentally-friendly option for reducing emissions that can beused in practice. Together with partners from the worlds of research, scienceand business, the company has been doing pioneering work for many years in thearea of research into and the use of alternative propulsion technologies andstate-of-the-art environmental technology and continues to pursue this pathconsistently. Apart from researching the possibilities of CO₂-freeproduction of LNG from renewable sources we are, for example, currentlyexploring the use of fuel cells or batteries.

2020every AIDA ship fitted for shoreside power /

9out of 12 ships in the AIDA fleet currently fitted with shoreside powerconnection

Today, nine out of the AIDA fleet's 12 ships arealready fitted with or are technically prepared for a shoreside powerconnection.

At present, Hamburg is the only port in Germanythat can provide shoreside power. Following the successful conclusion of thetrial phase in 2016, since April 2017 AIDAsol has been supplied inHamburg-Altona with green power via a shoreside power plant. Shutting down themain engines of the ship during docking times (about 40 percent of theoperating time of a cruise ship) reduces emissions to virtually zero. In 2018AIDAsol is due to make 22 calls at the Port of Hamburg-Altona.

Apart from AIDAsol, AIDAprima and AIDAperla arealso fitted with shoreside power connections. Two more ships (AIDAbella andAIDAluna) will be fully equipped by the end of 2018 and four vessels of theAIDA fleet are already technically prepared for shoreside power (AIDAdiva,AIDAblu, AIDAmar, AIDAstella).

In April 2018, AIDA Cruises entered into amodernization partnership with the Port of Kiel, the City of Kiel and the stategovernment of Schleswig-Holstein to build up a shoreside power infrastructurein the Port of Kiel from 2019. Corresponding talks are also being held with thePort of Rostock with the aim of making shoreside power and LNG supply availablethere.

AIDA Cruises' declared goal is to fully equip allships with a shoreside power connection by 2020.

The decisive factor for the use of shoreside poweris that it is produced in a more environmentally friendly manner on land.Shoreside power makes a contribution to environmental protection if it is greenelectricity from renewable energies.

8out of 12 ships of the AIDA fleet are fitted with an exhaust gas cleaningsystem today – planned completion of retrofitting program by 2020

For all AIDA ships that cannot be fully operatedwith LNG, exhaust gas cleaning systems are currently the mostenvironmentally-friendly alternative that can be used in ship operations. In2013, as part of a comprehensive investment program, the company beganretrofitting exhaust gas cleaning systems on the ships of its existing fleet.

8 of the AIDA fleet's 12 ships are currently fittedwith modern exhaust gas cleaning technology: AIDAprima, AIDAperla, AIDAdiva,AIDAluna, AIDAmar and AIDAvita, as well as AIDAblu and AIDAbella (commissioningin 2018).

Apart from an exhaust desulfurization unit, theexhaust gas cleaning systems on board our two new-builds, AIDAprima andAIDAperla, also feature an SCR catalytic converter and a particulate filter.These are test systems currently in trial operation.

AIDA Cruises is successfully deploying it exhaustgas cleaning technology in its global travel destinations, with the exceptionof a few ports where the permission to operate is still pending.

AIDAsol will be the next ship in the AIDA fleet tobe fitted with an exhaust gas cleaning system at the end of 2018. AIDA Cruiseshas set itself the goal of fitting all ships of the existing fleet built after2000, which cannot be fully operated with LNG, with appropriate systems by2020.

Further measures toincrease energy efficiency (examples)

For AIDA Cruises, the best ton of fuel is the onethat is not consumed at all.

Today, the fleet's consumption is alreadysignificantly below the industry average. Thanks to numerous measures toincrease energy efficiency, in recent years AIDA Cruises has reduced fuelconsumption on board its fleet by more than one third per person per day. Thismeans that an AIDA cruise ship today now consumes an average of only threeliters of fuel per person for a journey of 100 kilometers. This was achievedwith a number of measures including:

Optimized routemanagement: Optimizing our routes by adjusting schedules, laytimes and thespeed profiles of our ships.

Improvedhydrodynamics: New ship design to reduce friction resistance.

Modern ventilationsystems and waste heat recovery reduce energy consumption in staterooms by 20percent.

Optimized lightingmanagement (including the use of LED lamps) means around 30 percent less energyis required for lighting.

Apart from thepropulsion engines, air-conditioning is the biggest consumer of energy onboard. By using absorption refrigerators, surplus waste heat is transformedinto cooling for the air-conditioning systems.

On board all ships ofthe AIDA fleet we use ABB's innovative energy monitoring and management systemEMMA to support efficient ship operation.

Since 2007, AIDA Cruises has documentedits commitment to the environment and society in a transparent manner in itsannual Sustainability Report AIDA cares, which also contains all relevantenvironmental figures.

AIDA Cruises has publishedfurther information on its commitment to the environment and sustainability inthe current Sustainability Report AIDA cares 2018 at www.aida.de/aidacares.

Rostock, July 31, 2018

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