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Jul 5, 2025 · NOK 200 million for electric container ships One of the companies that will receive NOK 200 million in funding for a pioneering project to build two battery-powered container
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Jun 16, 2025 · Norway''s Eitzen Group is plotting to build the world''s biggest battery-powered electric container ships. The Eitzen Avanti division has been selected as one of the companies
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Jan 6, 2025 · These companies are actively working on hybrid container ships that use electric propulsion combined with hydrogen fuel cells. Such solutions could become a bridge between
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Jun 16, 2025 · The projects aims to build two battery-powered ships to transport containers between Norway, Sweden and Germany. According to Enova, the vessels will have battery
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Jun 18, 2025 · Norwegian shipping company Eitzen Avanti has secured public funding to build what could become the world''s largest battery-powered
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Jun 16, 2025 · Norway''s Eitzen Group is making waves in maritime innovation by planning to construct battery-powered containerships, poised to be the largest of their kind globally. Eitzen
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Nov 22, 2021 · The first autonomous zero-emission container ship Yara Birkeland has completed its maiden voyage in the Oslo Fjord. A two-year technology
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Jun 16, 2025 · Norway''s Eitzen Group and a Norway government-backed funder are developing plans to build a pair of 850-TEU container feeder vessels Norway''s Ministry of Climate and the
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May 3, 2024 · Chinese state-owned company COSCO Shipping has launched what it calls the “world''s largest” river-to-sea electric container ship. The
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Nov 8, 2021 · Dubbed ''the Tesla of the seas'' this fully-electrified, fully-autonomous cargo ship is already making waves. The Yara Birkeland has a
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Jun 17, 2025 · Eitzen Avanti, part of Eitzen Group, is the company which will be receiving support for the groundbreaking project to build two battery-powered
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Jul 29, 2025 · The global shipping industry is charting a course toward sustainability, and Norway''s Eitzen Group believes electrification holds the key. The maritime company is making
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Jun 23, 2024 · The Yara Birkeland, a fully autonomous electric container ship, successfully completed her maiden voyage in Norwegian waters in March
Contact UsNorwegian shipping company Eitzen Avanti has secured public funding to build what could become the world's largest battery-powered container ships, as part of a broader push to decarbonise short-sea shipping. The project, supported by Norwegian state enterprise Enova, involves the construction of two vessels with battery packs exceeding 100 MWh.
The world's largest all-electric container ship, named Yara Birkeland, is expected to take its maiden voyage later this year from a port in Norway. Yara Birkeland is a large container ship commissioned by Yara, a Norwegian fertilizer company, to move its product around the country.
No payment required. Norway is backing the construction of two battery-electric container ships, set to carry 850 containers each and equipped with over 100 MWh battery capacity—making them the largest of their kind in the world.
The company will bank a grant of NOK 200m ($20m) to develop two 850-teu feeder vessels in what Enova called a “ground-breaking project”. The ships, which will operate between Norway, Sweden and Germany, will have battery packs of more than 100 MWh. “They could thus become the world's largest battery-powered container ships,” Enova added.
The Yara Birkeland, the world's first fully electric and autonomous container ship, powered by Leclanche batteries. Source: PRNewsfoto/Leclanche
Each ship will have the capacity to carry up to 850 containers on routes between Norway, Sweden, and Germany. “These projects show what is now possible with battery electrification in maritime transport,” said Andreas Forsnes Jahn, senior maritime transport advisor at Enova.