CHINESE shipbuilder Wuhu Shipyard has signed a deal with Zhejiang Zhonghuaizhou Shipping Technology to build a pair of river-sea pure electric containerships
CHINESE shipbuilder Wuhu Shipyard has signed a deal with Zhejiang Zhonghuaizhou Shipping Technology to build a pair of river-sea pure electric containerships. According to the shipyard and its subsidiary Tri Water New Energy Technology, the 400 TEU boxships will be the first vessels of its kind in China, according to Singapore's Splash 247.
The total length of the vessels is 104.68 m with a beam of 19 m. They have a designed speed of 20 kmph and are equipped with ten marine container batteries with a capacity of 4,400 kWh which have a replacement mode to assist with fully electric navigation.
After the ships are completed, they will work on the route from Yangshan Deepwater Port to Taicang Port - a route going down the Yangtze River into the East China Sea and then into the Quiantang River.
The deal won by Wuhu comes hard on the heels of Ningbo Ocean Shipping order of two battery-powered feeder boxships at Jiangxi Jiangxin Shipbuilding.
The Shanghai-listed subsidiary of Ningbo-Zhoushan Port Group booked 740 TEU ships in late May this year. The vessels will operate along the Chinese coast once delivered in 2026.
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