Tag: electric vessels

Electric ferry Ellen sailed 50 nautical miles – 92 kilometers – on a single battery charge during the International Energy Agency’s 7th Annual Conference on Energy Efficiency. The distance marks a new world record.

The world’s first commercially viable fully electric foiling workboat range, developed by Belfast’s Artemis Technologies, was launched on June 9.

During the Posidonia 2022, DNV signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Saronic Ferries to enable the development of an electric ferry for local deployment in Greece.

On May 26, Tokyo Kisen held a naming and launching ceremony of the electric tugboat Taiga, currently under construction at Kanagawa Dockyard Co., Ltd.

On April 29, the Crown Prince of Norway, Haakon Magnus, celebrated the christening of Yara Birkeland, the world’s first electric, autonomous container vessel.

MOL and Asahi Tanker announced that on April 26, the Asahi Tanker-owned and operated tanker ASAHI - the world’s first pure battery tanker to operate completely on electricity - bunkered fuel on the MOL-operated car carrier Victorious Ace at the Daikoku Pier C-1 Wharf in Yokohama. 

According to Japan’s Asahi Tanker, the company will start using the world’s first electric-powered tanker for ship fuelling in an effort to cut carbon emissions.

Fleetzero has developed a concept for the electrification of shipping, where electric ships will receive batteries stowed in freight containers and make more stops at smaller ports, where the empty batteries are handed in and new ones are picked up to take the ships to the next destination.

Shanghai Pan-Asia Shipping, the intra-Asia unit of Cosco Shipping Lines, has signed time-charter agreements with leasing affiliate Cosco Shipping Development (CSD) for two electric 700 TEU feeder vessels.

A new partnership between Shift Clean Energy (Shift), SeaTech and Vitol, will provide V-Bunkers, with Singapore’s first hybrid bunker tankers.