The highly anticipated 700TEU river-sea direct pure battery-powered container ship recently successfully undocked in Yangzhou!
July 26 morning, COSCO SHIPPING heavy industry affiliated to Yangzhou COSCO SHIPPING heavy industry construction COSCO SHIPPING development of the first pure battery power container ship N997 in Jiangsu Yangzhou successfully launched.
The ship is China's first independent design, development and construction, with independent intellectual property rights of 700TEU river sea direct pure battery power container ship, is COSCO Shipping Group actively comply with the green, low-carbon, intelligent shipping industry development new trends, promote shipping green low-carbon development, promote the development of the Yangtze River trunk line container transport ship electrification, help the Yangtze River water transport green transformation, to create a green zero carbon shipping demonstration of key projects.
She, "electric" force
700TEU pure battery-powered container ship is the world's first river-sea direct large-scale pure battery-powered container ship, its loading battery capacity is the world's largest. The series of ships have a total length of 119.8 meters and a width of 23.6 meters. They are powered by a box-type mobile power supply. The whole voyage is propelled by battery power. The preset battery capacity is much higher than that of the existing international/domestic ship types. They are in the world's leading position in terms of the number of cases, deadweight tons and battery capacity of pure electric container ships.
She, ambitious "wisdom"
The intelligent ship system on board this series of ships consists of an intelligent integrated platform, intelligent navigation, intelligent engine room and intelligent energy efficiency. At the same time, according to the actual needs of shipowners, corresponding adjustments will be made, and the speed of different segments of the ship will be planned according to the arrival time, water flow, battery capacity, etc. Install situational awareness system to give early warning and alarm to the navigation and situation judgment of inland river environmental conditions; The intelligent engine room focuses on monitoring the operating status of the box power pack and related matching devices. Intelligent energy efficiency focuses on box power supply and energy efficiency analysis of the whole ship.
She, "green" move the future
In September 2022, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with the Ministry of Finance and other five ministries and commissions issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Green and Intelligent Development of Inland River Ships", proposed the establishment of an inland river ship green intelligent standard specification system, to create an inland new energy ship industry-wide ecological chain of medium-and long-term goals. On December 8, 2022, COSCO Shipping developed two Yangtze River mainline 700TEU electric boats in Yangzhou COSCO Shipping Heavy Industries held a groundbreaking ceremony to open COSCO Shipping Group's practice of "double carbon" and help the Yangtze River Golden Waterway green upgrade of vivid practice.
700TEU electric container ship is the world's first long-distance transport of large-scale pure battery-powered container ship, the series of ships will be put into operation to the Yangtze River route, so as to achieve the golden waterway of green upgrade, for China's inland and coastal shipping emissions reduction to provide central enterprises experience and programs.
According to the construction plan, the N997 will start sea trials in late September to professionally verify the ship's performance. In addition, COSCO SHIPPING's second 700TEU electric container ship (N998) was also successfully docked in Yangzhou COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industries on May 8, 2023.
Source: one shipping