Ship Universe Cruise Tool

Cruise Ship Fuel Consumption & Bunker Cost Calculator

Estimate cruise ship fuel consumption, annual bunker cost, fuel budget, CO2 emissions and cost per passenger-day. Advanced mode separates primary and secondary fuels, sea, port and anchorage consumption, shore-power fuel reduction, bunkering fees and multi-year fuel-price projections.

Fuel Consumption
Separate cruise sea-day and port-day fuel burn instead of relying on one average daily number
Bunker Budget
Estimate fuel cost, purchase allowance, bunkering fees and optional carbon exposure
Cruise Economics
Calculate fuel cost per sailing, passenger-day and nautical mile when operating data are entered

Annual Cruise Operating Profile

Use average fuel consumption for days underway and days alongside. Hotel and auxiliary loads should be included in the daily burn values.

days
MT/day
days
MT/day

Bunker Price & Budget

$ /MT
%/year
%
Adds a planning allowance to fuel cost. It does not increase modeled fuel consumption or CO2.
years
tCO2/MT
$ /tCO2
%

Passenger & Voyage Metrics

Optional inputs unlock cost-per-passenger, cost-per-sailing and cost-per-nautical-mile metrics.

passengers
%
sailings
nm/year

Annual Cruise Operating Profile

Model sea, port and anchorage fuel separately. Port fuel is automatically reduced by the entered shore-power assumptions.

days
days
days
%
%
Applied only to port-day fuel burn for the share of port days connected.

Primary Fuel

$ /MT
MT/day
MT/day
MT/day
tCO2/MT
%/year

Secondary / Pilot Fuel

Set the secondary burn values to 0 if the vessel uses only one fuel.

$ /MT
MT/day
MT/day
MT/day
tCO2/MT
%/year

Bunker Budget & Carbon

%
Budget allowance only. It does not increase modeled consumption or emissions.
stems
$
$
$ /tCO2
%
years

Passenger & Voyage Metrics

passengers
%
sailings
nm/year

Cruise Fuel & Bunker Results

Simple annual bunker estimate

Enter operating data
Enter sea days, fuel burn and bunker price to calculate cruise ship fuel consumption and annual bunker cost.
Planning estimate only. Actual cruise ship fuel consumption varies with speed, itinerary, weather, draft, displacement, hull and propeller condition, hotel load, HVAC demand, passenger count, port stays, shore power, machinery efficiency and fuel properties. LNG values in this tool use user-entered fuel mass and direct-combustion CO2 factors and do not model methane slip or lifecycle GHG intensity. Validate bunker prices, fuel factors and operating assumptions before budgeting.
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