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

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...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/worlds-first-electric-pusher-tug-is-powered-by-est-floatech-batteries/

Damen & Gebhard are celebrating a milestone moment

Damen & Gebhard are celebrating a milestone moment

Gerard Kraaij (Managing Director, Gebhard Electro), Joost Mathôt (Director Products Workboats, Damen) and Piet Faasse (Director E&A, Damen).

Damen Shipyards Group and Gebhard Electro are celebrating a milestone moment; Gebhard has recently contributed for the 450th time to a Damen tug. Working together for more than three decades, the companies have collaborated on over 900 projects in total.

It all began with a telephone from Damen 30 years ago...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/10/21/damen-gebhard-are-celebrating-a-milestone-moment/