Eitzen pushes ahead with all-electric boxships

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Norwegian maritime group Eitzen has placed an order for two battery-powered 900 TEU electric container ships to be built in China by Zhejiang Dongpeng Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. This initiative aims to develop one of the world’s first large-scale electric container shipping networks.

Norwegian maritime investment group Eitzen has moved ahead with plans to develop one of the world’s first large-scale electric container shipping networks, placing an order for two battery-powered boxships in China. The Oslo-based group said its subsidiary Zen had contracted Zhejiang Dongpeng Shipbuilding & Repairing Co to build two fully electric 900 teu vessels for …