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Environmental Officers

Onboard sustainability has a human face – several, in fact. An Environmental Officer works aboard every Mein Schiff® vessel, keeping an eagle eye on our environmental footprint.
  • Mann in Uniform liest Dokumente vor Bildschirmen.
    Keeping an eagle eye on standards

    An Environmental Officer´s priority task is monitoring the ship´s compliance with legally binding environmental standards. And the additional standards we set ourselves come on top of that. For instance, they plan and monitor waste disposal, wastewater quality and exhaust emissions values.

  • Mann in weißer Uniform prüft Wasser auf Kreuzfahrtschiff.
    Safe swimming pools

    Environmental Officers also monitor onboard water quality, taking regular samples of the drinking water, pool and treated wastewater.

  • Drei Offiziere in weißer Uniform auf der Brücke eines Kreuzfahrtschiffs der Mein Schiff® Flotte.
    Everything under control

    With their fellow Ship´s Officers, they check the ship´s voyage plans and agree with the Captain how to comply with the applicable environmental regulations. They work closely with Ship Management in carrying out their highly diverse tasks and advise this function on all statutory environmental matters.

  • Mann in Uniform hält Vortrag vor Publikum, Präsentation im Hintergrund.
    Getting the crew on board with sustainability

    Environmental Officers not only monitor and advise the ships’ Leadership team but also train the entire crew via our Save the Waves training course.

  • Drei Personen unterhalten sich auf einem Kreuzfahrtschiffdeck.
    Always listening to our cruise guests

    Whenever our passengers have a sustainability-related question, our Environmental Officers are happy to answer these in the Nautical-Technical Q&A Session, or in a personal conversation if the guest prefers this.

What does an Environmental Officer actually do?

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It's not just the present that counts but above all the future.

The focus of their work is consistently on “What can we do better?” The Environmental Officers therefore develop ideas and implement these together with the Sustainability team based at our corporate headquarter in Hamburg, Germany. They also motivate the crew to submit their own proposals.

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