{"id":22262,"date":"2022-09-09T12:20:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T12:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shipip.com\/?p=22262"},"modified":"2022-09-09T12:20:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T12:20:18","slug":"viking-mississippi-river-cruise-ship-makes-its-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/viking-mississippi-river-cruise-ship-makes-its-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Viking Mississippi river cruise ship makes its debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viking River Cruises\u2019 much-anticipated Jones Act compliant river cruise ship\u00a0<em>Viking Mississippi\u00a0<\/em>is currently on its inaugural cruise and attracting much local media attention along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Floated out from Edison Chouest Offshore\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/shipbuilding\/shipyards\/shipyard-news\/chouest-shipyard-floats-out-viking-mississippi\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LaShip shipyard in Houma, La., in March<\/a>, the 450 foot long, 75 foot beam vessel hosts 386 guests in 193 all outside staterooms, and offers multiple passenger amenities. The five-deck river cruise ship is inspired by Viking\u2019s award-winning river and ocean ships and features a Scandinavian design, as well as public spaces that will be familiar to Viking guests but reimagined for Mississippi River voyages.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vikingrivercruises.com\/ships\/mississippi\/viking-mississippi.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Viking Mississippi<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is equipped with a variety of measures to maximize energy efficiency and emissions\u2014including a diesel-electric propulsion system comprised of eight CAT C32 EPA Tier 4 diesel engines, each powering a 940 eKw water cooled generator; each engine\/generator unit is individually mounted on a specially designed double raft isolation system that produces a remarkably quiet and smooth ride.<\/p>\n<p>Propulsion power is provided by Voith 6-bladed propulsion thrusters driven by permanent magnet electric motors as are the pump jet bow thrusters.<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/inland-coastal\/video-viking-mississippi-river-cruise-ship-makes-its-debut\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"CREWEXPRESS STCW REST HOURS SOFTWARE - Paris and Tokyo MoU have announced that they will jointly launch a new Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) from 1st September 2022 to 30th November 2022\" href=\"http:\/\/shipip.com\/software\/crewexpress-stcw-rest-hours-software\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20827\" src=\"http:\/\/shipip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/crewexpress-stcw-psc.jpg\" alt=\"CREWEXPRESS STCW REST HOURS SOFTWARE - Paris and Tokyo MoU have announced that they will jointly launch a new Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) from 1st September 2022 to 30th November 2022 \" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viking River Cruises\u2019 much-anticipated Jones Act compliant river cruise ship\u00a0Viking Mississippi\u00a0is currently on its inaugural cruise and attracting much local media attention along the way. Floated out from Edison Chouest Offshore\u2019s\u00a0LaShip shipyard in Houma, La., in March, the 450 foot long, 75 foot beam vessel hosts 386 guests in 193 all outside staterooms, and offers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-22262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bimco","tag-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}