{"id":131304,"date":"2021-11-26T15:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T23:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/worlds-first-autonomous-all-electric-container-ship"},"modified":"2021-11-26T15:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T23:22:36","slug":"worlds-first-autonomous-all-electric-container-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/worlds-first-autonomous-all-electric-container-ship","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first autonomous, all-electric container ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C2kKgtCfUAY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to be able to showcase the world\u2019s first fully electric and self-propelled container ship,\u201d said Svein Holsether, CEO of Norwegian chemical company Yara International. \u201cIt will cut 1,000 tonnes of CO2 and replace 40,000 trips by diesel-powered trucks a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yara has collaborated since 2017 with maritime technology company Kongsberg to develop the ship, which sailed from <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/VTMWogACbmKNsyz78\" target=\"_blank\">Horten<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/cHHWvfgD7dW4gfsi9\" target=\"_blank\">Oslo<\/a>, a distance of approximately 35 nautical miles (65 km). Powered by 7 MWh batteries, it uses an automatic identification system (AIS), cameras (including infrared), a lidar, and radar system. It will begin commercial operations in 2022, transporting mineral fertiliser between ports in southern Norway at up to 15 knots (28 km\/h).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorway is a big ocean and maritime nation, and other nations look to Norway for green solutions at sea. Yara Birkeland is the result of the strong knowledge and experience we have in the Norwegian maritime cluster and industry,\u201d said Geir H\u00e5\u00f8y, CEO of the Kongsberg Group. \u201cThe project demonstrates how we have developed a world-leading innovation that contributes to the green transition and provides great export opportunities for Norwegian technology and industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe are proud to be able to showcase the world\u2019s first fully electric and self-propelled container ship,\u201d said Svein Holsether, CEO of Norwegian chemical company Yara International. \u201cIt will cut 1,000 tonnes of CO2 and replace 40,000 trips by diesel-powered trucks a year.\u201d Yara has collaborated since 2017 with maritime technology company Kongsberg to develop [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}