{"id":188596,"date":"2024-05-03T12:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T17:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/a-fully-electric-10000-ton-container-ship-has-begun-service-equipped-with-over-50000-kwh-in-batteries"},"modified":"2024-05-03T12:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T17:25:24","slug":"a-fully-electric-10000-ton-container-ship-has-begun-service-equipped-with-over-50000-kwh-in-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/a-fully-electric-10000-ton-container-ship-has-begun-service-equipped-with-over-50000-kwh-in-batteries","title":{"rendered":"A fully-electric 10,000 ton container ship has begun service equipped with over 50,000 kWh in batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-fully-electric-10000-ton-container-ship-has-begun-service-equipped-with-over-50000-kwh-in-batteries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese state-owned company COSCO Shipping has launched what it calls the \u201cworld\u2019s largest\u201d river-to-sea electric container ship. The Green Water 1 is a 10,000-ton+ fully <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/guides\/electric-boats\/\">electric vessel<\/a> that sets a new benchmark in sustainability in the marine logistics industry.<\/p>\n<p>China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company, or COSCO for short, is a state-owned multinational conglomerate headquartered in Shanghai specializing in marine transport. Not to be <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/guides\/costco\/\">confused with Costco<\/a>, COSCO Shipping was founded as a subsidiary in 2016 following an approved merger between COSCO and China Shipping.<\/p>\n<p>The COSCO Group is the largest liner carrier in China, transporting hundreds of container vessels daily while also providing ships to Chinese automakers to help them<a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/04\/11\/china-is-exporting-so-many-evs-that-it-needs-more-ships-a-lot-more\/\"> export their electric vehicles<\/a> to new markets overseas, including Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese state-owned company COSCO Shipping has launched what it calls the \u201cworld\u2019s largest\u201d river-to-sea electric container ship. The Green Water 1 is a 10,000-ton+ fully electric vessel that sets a new benchmark in sustainability in the marine logistics industry. China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company, or COSCO for short, is a state-owned multinational conglomerate headquartered in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188596","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}