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"The world’s first hybrid battery-powered self-unloading bulk carrier has begun
operations in South Australia, transporting limestone from the Yorke Peninsula
to Adelaide to help secure the supply of locally manufactured cement.
The 125-metre
MV Yampu, built by Canadian marine shipping company The CSL
Group, will transport limestone from Australian masonry supplier Adbri’s Klein
Point quarry on the Yorke Peninsula to the company’s Birkenhead cement
manufacturing in Adelaide.
Named from the Narungga and Kaurna languages of South Australia, meaning
“dolphin”, the
MV Yampu will initially only operate on battery power 40 per
cent of the time, relying on an onboard battery capacity of 6,758
kilowatt-hours (kWh) and putting out 600 kilowatts (kW) of power. Recharging
will take place when docked at Adbri’s Birkenhead facility.
The
MV Yampu is nevertheless designed to eventually operate on 100 per cent
battery power.
The vessel is expected to reduce diesel consumption by half a million litres of
fuel and Scope 1 emissions by 40 per cent, compared with the previous vessel,
the
MV Accolade II."
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