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Ambience

IMO: 8521232

Overview

About This Vessel

MS Ambience is a cruise ship operated by Ambassador Cruise Line. The vessel was delivered to Princess Cruises in 1991 by the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy as Regal Princess, sailing on their North American routes. After 2000 she was deployed on the company's Australian routes, then later in the Mediterranean and Baltic seas. In 2007 Regal Princess was transferred to P&O Cruises Australia, underwent major refurbishment, and was renamed Pacific Dawn, operating from Australia to South Pacific destinations. Her renaming coincided with P&O's 75th anniversary in Australia. It was intended that the ship would be retired in 2020, sold to Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV) and renamed Amy Johnson, but CMV had financial difficulties and went into administration in 2020, affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Later in 2020 Pacific Dawn was sold to Ocean Builders Central, and renamed Satoshi. They intended her to become a floating residence in the Gulf of Panama; however, after failing to obtain insurance for the proposed operation, she was resold in 2021 for operation by Ambassador Cruise Line, entering service as Ambience in 2022.

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Carbon intensity · 2025

50,588t CO₂

Fuel burned: 15,830 t
Technical: EEXI (12 gCO₂/t·nm)

Verified reported figure. Band is peer-relative, not official IMO CII.

Compliance

Safety Record

Marine casualties3

Personnel CasualtyMinor
Oct 4, 2022Montreal, QUEBEC (QC)
On 04 October 2022 the passenger vessel "AMBIENCE" reported dropping 14 barrels of detergent in the water while loading the ship's stores at section 34 in Montreal, QC. All of the barrels were recovered from the water.
Non-Reportable/VoluntaryModerate
Oct 12, 2004SECTION 32, PORT DE MONTREAL, QUE., QUEBEC (QC)
On 12 October 2004, the vessel Lake Eva while berthed at section 32 (Montreal), experienced the rupture of all mooring lines. Vessel drifted and later anchored. Passenger vessel Regal Princess was passing downbound at the time.
Machinery FailureMinor
Oct 21, 2003OFF POINTE NOIRE, SAGUENAY RIVER, QC, QUEBEC (QC)
While exiting Saguenay river mouth, the passenger vessel "REGAL PRINCESS" experienced electrical problems affecting its propulsion efficiency. Everything was back to normal approx. 4 minutes later.

Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.

Port-State-Control detentions1

London20 deficiencies
May 26, 2022Paris MoU (THETIS)2 grounds for detention
Oil filtering equipment; Ballast, fuel and other tanks

Port-State-Control detentions.

Composite Risk

Risk Score

58/100

Elevated riskLow confidence20% component coverage

Multiple adverse factors, or a hard ship-specific signal, lift this hull above the fleet norm.

PSC detentions58

Sanctions exposureno data

AIS-gap & behaviourno data

Hull ageno data

Flag registerno data

A coverage-weighted blend of the single component we could read for this hull — the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. This headline is flagged low-confidence (a thin or structural-only read) and should not be treated as a verdict. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.

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Commercial

Voyage Estimate

Load port

Discharge port

CargotFreight$/t

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Fleet Management

Ownership & Management

Owner

Princess Cruises

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