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Premiere in the port of Hamburg: AIDAprima and AIDAsol to be supplied with clean electricity from LNG in Hamburg on May 14

The port of Hamburg willbe celebrating a premiere relating to LNG supply this Saturday. On May 14,AIDAprima and AIDAsol will be the first two AIDA ships to be simultaneouslysupplied with and/or powered with energy produced from LNG (liquefied naturalgas) while berthed in the port of Hamburg. AIDAprima´s Dual Fuel Motors will besupplied directly from an LNG truck at the cruise terminal in Steinwerder.AIDAsol will be supplied in the HafenCity via the LNG hybrid barge, "Hummel",with power that comes from low-emission LNG. This is an important contributionto environmental protection, because compared to the use of conventional marinediesel with 0.1 percent sulfur content emissions and particle discharge will besignificantly reduced by using LNG. The emission of sulfur oxide and sootparticles will be completely prevented. Nitrogen oxide emissions will bereduced by up to 80 percent and carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent.

FollowingAIDAprima's first successful LNG-supply trial run in Hamburg on May 7, 2016,this week the new flagship of the cruise company AIDA Cruises also completedits first LNG operation at the ports of Southampton, Le Havre and Zeebrügge.This means that AIDAprima can already be supplied with low-emission power atfour ports on its route.

AIDAprimais the world's first cruise ship which can be operated in an environmentallyfriendly way in port with liquefied natural gas (LNG). With the next generationof ships that will be put into service in 2019/2020, AIDA Cruises will go onestep further. Under the concept of "Green Cruising" they will beoperated with 100 percent low-emission LNG.

Rostock,May 13, 2016

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