World’s first electric pusher tug is powered by EST-Floatech batteries

Capt. John

The world’s first electric pusher tug, Kotug International’s E-Pusher Type M, is now, as we reported earlier, transporting cocoa beans for Cargill from the Port of Amsterdam, the largest cocoa import port in the world, to Cargill’s cocoa factory in Zaandam, the Netherlands. Inside the tug is a container with an EST-Floatech battery system that supplies all its energy needs.

EST-Floattech’s team developed the custom built containerized solution with its Octopus High Energy modules in a process...

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