New Zealand’s Ports of Auckland Limited (POAL) will shortly be taking delivery of Damen’s first all-electric tugboat. With a bollard pull of 70 tonnes, the Damen RSD-E Tug 2513, named Sparky, will be fully capable of handling even the largest vessels.
Its Damen E-Drive has enough battery capacity to perform at least three berthing operations on average on batteries alone. During these operations, Sparky will be able push and pull with 70 tonnes of force...
Kotug, based in Rotterdam, and Vancouver, B.C.-based Shift Clean Energy are providing a zero-emissions barging solution that will bring cocoa beans from the Port of Amsterdam to agribusiness giant Cargill’s cocoa facilities in Zaandam, avoiding an approximately 20-kilometer road journey.
Kotug will deploy an all-electric E-Pusher type M tug and four barges to transport the beans.The vessel is equipped with swappable battery energy containers from Shift Clean Energy (Shift). The containers are...
Damen Shipyards Group has reached a major milestone in the construction of its first fully-electric reversed stern drive tug. Named Sparky, the RSD-E Tug 2513 ship handling tug is under construction for New Zealand’s Ports of Auckland at the Damen Song Cam Shipyard in Vietnam.
The yard recently installed the tug’s batteries —all 2,240 of them. With a total of 2,784 kWh of battery capacity, Sparky will be able carry out two or more berthing/unberthing operations on a single charge, delivering up...