News / Coastal shipping the springboard for battery-powered ships?

Yara Birkeland zero emission ship

By Charlie Bartlett, Technology Editor

07/04/2022

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 with zero emissions, aiming to reduce diesel-powered truck haulage by 40,000 journeys a year.

With almost no moving parts, electric propulsion does not require the same degree of supervision as a conventional diesel or diesel-electric drivetrain, ...

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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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