What fuel does a cruise ship usually use?

Cruise ships generally use internal combustion engine fuel oil (a kind of fuel oil) or heavy diesel oil (a kind of diesel oil). Generally speaking, high-speed diesel engines use light diesel (such as diesel vehicles), medium-speed and low-speed diesel engines use light diesel or heavy diesel, and cruise ships generally use marine low-speed diesel engines, mostly heavy diesel.

Because in the early days of postal service, intercontinental postal service relied on mail boats to send letters and parcels from one shore to the other, and these British ships often hung the signal flag of Royal Mail.

After 1850, Royal Mail allowed private shipping companies to help them deliver letters and parcels in the form of contracts. This change has transformed some ocean-going passenger ships originally belonging to passenger transport companies into ocean-going mail ships carrying passengers with signal flags. The word ocean liner was born in this way.

However, due to the appearance of jet civil aircraft, ocean-going cruise ships have gradually lost their passenger and cargo carrying functions and competitiveness, and their role has also changed from cruise ships to cruise ships for pleasure only. Therefore, strictly speaking, some amusement mails with long or short trips can only be called cruise ships, not cruise ships, because they have lost the function of carrying letters and parcels.

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Ocean-going cruise ships are mostly used for intercontinental or global transoceanic navigation, with large tonnage, superior performance, luxurious internal facilities and high cost. Modern ocean-going cruise ships developed from early cruise ships.

65438+In the late 1930s, steam engines were first used for passenger transport in the Atlantic Ocean. Since then, ocean-going passenger ships have become the only means to transport mail by sea, so they are also called cruise ships. Cruise not only greatly promoted the ocean passenger transport at that time, but also promoted the ocean tourism trend at that time. More and more people took cruise ships for intercontinental tourism and even global tourism.

Some cruise ships have specially contracted this business, and these cruise ships have also become cruise ships. With the progress of shipbuilding technology, ocean-going cruise ships are getting bigger and more luxurious.

Every year, more and more people choose cruise ships for their holidays, and sea travel has gradually become a trend. Nowadays, large cruise ships can reach more than100000 tons and accommodate more and more passengers.

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