RTD8 – THOMSON CRUISES
AGREEMENT ON ISSUE
& NEED FOR CHANGE
Thomson Cruises in brief
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Britain’s 3rd largest cruise line
5 cruise ships
250,000 passengers per year
More than 160 ports of call
Thomson Cruises in 2011
We’d like to be sustainable…but…
• Sustainability is expensive and has
no tangible benefit
• Saving fuel will reduce the customer
experience
• We have a fleet of older ships, we
must be less environmentally friendly
than anyone else
• No-one is really interested
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Show me the money
Details; details; details
Make it easy
Small things can add up
to make a big difference
• Sustainable does not
necessarily equal worse
• Start with the things
you’re best at
Details - simply
Ship
Thomson Dream
Cruise Planner
Cruise Name
Version Departure
3
Mediterranean Medley
Nights
7
Optimum speed of engines
Prevailing winds andDate
currents
Sat 00 Jan 1900
Sun 01 Jan 1900
Traffic in ports (road
sea)
Mon and
02 Jan
1900
When passengersTue
typically
03 Jan go
1900
Wed back
04 Jan 1900
ashore and come
Thu 05 Jan 1900
Meal times
Fri 06 Jan 1900
Scenery for sailaway
Sat 07 Jan 1900
Excursion lengths
Time required to prepare for
disembarkation
Sun rise & set times
Whether ship can ‘drift’ en-route
Day
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Port
Palma
At Sea
Villefranche
Livorno
Rapallo
Toulon
Barcelona
Palma
Summary
Arr
07:00
07:00
07:00
08:00
09:00
08:00
06:00
Dep
23:00
Notes
17:00
19:00
17:00
18:00
18:00
17:00
Total Fuel
Fuel Cost
Cost
Total
CO2 kg
kg per
per ALB
ALB Day
Day
CO2
HFO
HFO
MGO
MGO
Speed
12.30
10.83
6.70
13.85
16.00
17.33
13.00
11.82
-£
247,589
248,062
105.9
106.1
298.26
299.03
61.61
61.61
Changing Cruises
Saving per season
> 1800 tonnes CO2
> £300,000
Saving per season
> 800 tonnes CO2
> £100,000
The results
Sustainability is expensive and has no tangible benefit
In two years we’ve saved several million pounds in fuel
and water costs.
Saving fuel will reduce the customer experience
We go to a greater variety of ports than ever before,
and our passengers spend more time ashore.
We have a fleet of older ships, we must be less environmentally
friendly than anyone else
We believe that Thomson Cruises has Britain’s lowest
carbon footprint per passenger night.
No-one is interested
More than 85% of passengers think we are doing well.