THE keel has been laid on Ponant’s newest ship Le Commandant Charcot, the hybrid electric polar exploration vessel that is set to be powered by Liquified Natural Gas (LNG). The milestone took place in the Vard shipyard in Tulcea, Romania last month, with the company boasting that the ship is...
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THE keel has been laid on Ponant’s newest ship Le Commandant Charcot, the hybrid electric polar exploration vessel that is set to be powered by Liquified Natural Gas (LNG).
The milestone took place in the Vard shipyard in Tulcea, Romania last month, with the company boasting that the ship is “perfectly on schedule” for its 2021 delivery.
Ponant says Le Commandant Charcot is being designed as a “new type of exploration cruise ship” and is set to accommodate a raft of innovations in environmental protection.
Passengers will have the chance to visit the geographic North Pole plus remote sites of the Antarctic, such as the Ross Sea, Charcot Is & Peter I Island.
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