The Netherlands-based shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Group has entered into an settlement with compatriot electrical propulsion methods producer AAAPropulsion to use the latter firm’s propulsion answer on the previous’s electrical tugs.
As disclosed, the 2 companions have teamed as much as see how AAAPropulsion’s system known as A-Pod will be built-in onto Damen’s electrical tugboats with the overarching goal of enhancing effectivity.
Per AAAPropulsion, the A-Pod answer is a 360°azimuthing thruster system with an built-in electrical motor that’s meant for set up within the decrease POD housing and cooled by the outer water.
The system, based on Damen, has the potential to attenuate drag, which may enhance effectivity, and to ‘improve’ a vessel’s stability because of its decrease middle of gravity.
As knowledgeable, after the set up of the A-Pod into Damen’s electrical tugs in addition to workboats, the Dutch vessel building main mentioned that the following aim can be to broaden the applying of this technique to different market segments.
As a rising a part of its transition to engineering and constructing environmentally pleasant maritime options, Damen Shipyards Group has specialised in electrical vessels, together with tugs, ferries in addition to models from different ship sorts.
It’s understood that the corporate’s efforts in electrification fall underneath the scope of its ‘E3’ umbrella imaginative and prescient, i.e., producing eco-friendly, environment friendly, and economically viable maritime options.
Over the previous 12 months, Damen has accomplished, launched and/or delivered a number of newbuildings. For example, in April 2024, the shipbuilding participant splashed the absolutely electrical RSD-E Tug 2513, hailed as Europe’s ‘first’ all-electric tugboat. The unit—named the Volta 1—was constructed for the Belgian Port of Antwerp-Bruges.
What’s extra, Damen can also be engaged on a quartet of hybrid electrical Island Class vessels for Canada’s BC Ferries. As reported on the time, the builder would full the models at a yard in Romania. The Dutch participant had received the contract in mid-January final 12 months. The keel laying ceremony for the primary two ships of the collection was held on the very starting of November 2024.
Most lately, the second unit of the collection hit the water for the primary time. In complete, as famous, the newbuild is the eighth Island Class vessel that Damen has constructed for the Canadian ferry operator, having beforehand accomplished a sextet of those ships.
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