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Snapshot: GE Gas Turbine Installations Aboard Cruise Ships

March 16, 2004

GE Marine, 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 Energy, headquartered in Houston, Texas. 

To date, 22 LM2500+ and four LM2500 GE gas turbine-generator sets are in operation or slated for service on 17 cruise ships. 

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 ship(s): 
- Radiance of the Seas (April 2001) 
- Brilliance of the Seas (July 2002) 
- Serenade of the Seas (August 2003) 
Ship scheduled for service: 
- Jewel of the Seas (April 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 ships: 
- Coral Princess (January 2003) 
- Island Princess (July 2003) 
- Diamond Princess (February 2004) 
Ship scheduled for service: 
- Sapphire Princess (May 2004) 

Cunard Line 
Propulsion system: 
Two GE LM2500+ gas turbine-generator sets in a CODAG configuration with four diesel-generator sets. 
Operational ship: 
- 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 ships: 
- Zuiderdam (December 2002) 
- Oosterdam (June 2003) 
- Westerdam (April 2004) 
Ship scheduled for service: 
- Noordam (2006)