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"The world’s largest purely electric container ship has officially begun
commercial operations in China.
China’s state news agency
Xinhua reported last week that the
Ning Yuan Dian
Kun, built by Jiangxi Jiangxin Shipbuilding, began commercial operations with
an inaugural run between the Ningbo-Zhoushan and Jiaxing ports in China’s
eastern Zhejiang Province.
The 10,000-tonne-class container vessel measures in at 127.8 metres in length
and 21.6 metres wide and can carry 742 standard 20-foot containers.
Powering the
Ning Yuan Dian Kun are 10 containerised batteries with a total
capacity of up to 19 megawatt-hours (MWh) which feed a pair of 875 kilowatt
(kW) permanent-magnet synchronous propulsion motors.
A dual-mode charging system combines high-voltage shore power with rapid
container swapping
The vessel was developed and designed by the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and
Research Institute and is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1,462
tonnes annually."
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