{"id":3054,"date":"2011-03-16T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2011\/03\/16\/mermaid-pods-chosen-for-europa-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:23:59","slug":"mermaid-pods-chosen-for-europa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/general-news\/mermaid-pods-chosen-for-europa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid pods chosen for \u2018Europa 2\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ship, being built at Saint-Nazaire, France, for 2013 delivery, will be fitted with two Mermaid pods with 7.25MW synchronous motors, fed by PWM MV7000 converters. The order will come as something of a relief for the Mermaid consortium; Rolls-Royce having earlier this year been ordered in a US court to pay $24 million in compensation to Carnival Cruises following difficulties with the propulsion units on <em>Queen Mary 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Lo\u00efc Leclere, marine technical director of Converteam, said: \u201cConverteam\u2019s PWM MV7000 drives using the press-pack IGBT technology have allowed a new step forward in pod propulsion.This new Mermaid order, which follows the one for the French Navy Dixmude LHD, confirms Converteam and Rolls-Royce joint leadership in pod systems with sustained focus on efficiency and availability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Henri Doyer, senior project manager at STX Europe, said: \u201cThe long-term partnership with Converteam and Rolls-Royce has contributed to offering a very attractive propulsion solution to Hapag-Lloyd Cruises meeting their requirements in terms of passenger comfort and environmental friendliness&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Converteam of France has announced that Mermaid podded electric propulsion, developed by Converteam and Rolls-Royce, has been ordered by STX Europe for Hapag-Lloyd\u2019s new \u2018Europa 2\u2019 cruise ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}