Scanship nails two-year service agreement with NCLHScanship nails two-year service agreement with NCLH

'We are very pleased to reinforce the technical cooperation with Scanship as a testament to our longstanding partnership and our commitment to the environment,' said Paolo Mele, SVP technical operations, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings.

The fleet-wide service agreement includes preventive maintenance service visits, system tuning and remote monitoring for the most cost-efficient operations, according to Olivier Buton, VP marine & technical supply chain management, NCLH.

Bettina Nowak, managing director, Scanship Americas, said her company will work with NCLH to secure efficient and compliant operations by providing service, parts and consumables.

Since 2002 Scanship has retrofitted 11 Norwegian ships with advanced wastewater treatment systems. From 2004, six newbuilds have been equipped with Scanship’s Total Clean Ship Systems including garbage handling, food waste processing and bio residue treatment. All these ships are in full compliance with the strict Alaska discharge requirements introduced in 2003.

From 2010, newbuilds in the Breakaway and Breakaway Plus classes have been deployed with Scanship wastewater purification systems in compliance with the new IMO MARPOL standard for special areas removing phosphorus and nitrogen. The most recent advanced wastewater purification retrofit was for Oceania Cruises' Sirena in 2016, meeting the same standard to be enforced in the Baltic Sea from 2019.

In total, 17 ships NCLH vessels are using Scanship systems: 15 at Norwegian Cruise Line and one each at Oceania and Regent Seven Seas Cruises.