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Press Release

March 4, 2003
Snapshot: GE Gas Turbine Installations Aboard Cruise Ships
--GE Marine Engines, at its Evendale, Ohio facility, manufactured all the LM aeroderivative gas turbines for the following projects. The LM gas turbine-generator sets were built and sold by GE Aero Energy Products, a GE Power Systems business headquartered in Houston, Texas.

To date, 22 LM2500+ and five LM2500 GE gas turbine-generator sets are in operation or slated for service on 22 cruise ships (includes four options).

Royal Caribbean International

Propulsion system: Two GE LM2500+ gas turbine-generator sets in a COmbined Gas turbine and steam turbine integrated Electric drive System (COGES) configuration.

Operational ships:
  • Radiance of the Seas (April 2001)
  • Brilliance of the Seas (July 2002)
Ships scheduled for service:
  • Serenade of the Seas (third quarter 2003)
  • Jewel of the Seas (second quarter 2004)


Celebrity Cruises

Propulsion system: Two GE LM2500+ gas turbine-generator sets in a COGES configuration.

Operational ships:
  • Millennium (July 2000)
  • Infinity (March 2001)
  • Summit (October 2001)
  • Constellation (May 2002)


Princess Cruises

Propulsion system: One GE LM2500+ gas turbine-generator set in a COmbined Diesel And Gas turbine (CODAG) configuration with either two or four diesel-generator sets.

Operational ship:
  • Coral Princess (January 2003)
Ships scheduled for service
  • Island Princess (July 2003)
  • Diamond Princess (February 2004)
  • Sapphire Princess (May 2004)


Cunard Lines

Propulsion system: Two GE LM2500+ gas turbine-generator sets in a CODAG configuration with four diesel-generator sets. Ships scheduled for service
  • Queen Mary 2 (January 2004)


Holland America Line

Propulsion system One LM2500 gas turbine-generator set in a CODAG configuration with five diesel-generator sets. Operational ship:
  • Zuiderdam (December 2002)
Ship(s) scheduled for service
  • Oosterdam (June 2003)
  • Westerdam (April 2004)
  • Two additional ships yet to be named.