Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 05/2023
Electric short-sea cargo ships ordered in China
Joint forces | Netherlands-based ÈTA Shipping and Mercuria, a Cypriot-domiciled Swiss energy and commodity trader, have joined forces to order six, option ten, short-sea general cargo vessels at Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering Co Ltd in China. The 7,400dwt ÈTA 6700 ships have been designed without a main engine, but will instead use an electric motor to drive the propeller. The ships’ generators can be fuelled by conventional or low-carbon fuels. It will also be possible to connect any sustainable power source in the future, such as batteries or fuel cells running on hydrogen, for example, or green methanol or ammonia....