Yara International and Kongsberg will realize the first ship to the world to remote control equipped of single propulsion electrical worker



The Norwegians Yara International and Kongsberg have announced that they will realize the first ship to the world to remote control equipped of single propulsion electrical worker. It will be be a matter of a portacontainer feeder of limited ability that will have a gross capacity of about 3.500 tons and will be able to transport 100-120 teu.

The new unit to "emissions zero", that Yara Birkeland will be christened, will be completed at the end of 2018 and initially it will be maneuvered by a crew in order then to pass to the control of the remote ship from in the course of 2019 and totally becoming independent from 2020.

The ship will be used in order to transport cargos of producer Yara International the fertilizer from the Norwegian plant of Porsgrunn to the Norwegian ports of Brevik and Larvik. Draft of a annual traffic of about 20.000 container that comes then exported towards the international markets. The project - they have emphasized Yara International and Kongsberg - will allow to per year avoid about 40.000 travels of truck and the breaking in atmosphere of 678 tons of co2.

"Every day - it has explained the president and managing director of the Yara, Svein Tore Holsether - they are necessary beyond 100 trucks in order to transport the produced ones from the plant of Porsgrunn of the Yara to the ports of Brevik and Larvik where we send the produced ones to the customers of all the world. With this new portacontainer independent electrical worker and - it has emphasized - we will transfer the transports from the road to the sea and therefore we will reduce noise and powder emissions, we will increase safety of the local roads and will cut to the emissions of nitrogen and carbon dioxide".

"To develop systems for activity to remote control - it has evidenced the president and managing director of the Kongsberg, Geir Håøy - an important represents evolution and a natural step for the Kongsberg, in consideration of the decades of experience in the development and integration of advance sensoristici systems, of control and communication for all the areas of the naval activities. Yara Birkeland will constitute a point of reference for the application of innovative a marine technology to the aims of a more efficient and environment-friendly marine transport".