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Yara Birkeland zero emission ship
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Claiming a new concept for shortsea shipping, FleetZero, says it offers an alternative to the Yara Birkeland model of coastal shipping, and could provide the way in for automated and/or all-electric vessels.

Yara Birkeland will be the world’s first fully electric and autonomous container vessel ...

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  • Asaf Ashar

    April 07, 2022 at 2:47 pm

    It should be a Ro/Ro system, based on domestic ports
    (see NPWI 2011 study on US coastal shipping)

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