Turkish shipbuilder Sanmar has launched electrical battery-powered ElectRA tug for its personal fleet, which can present towage, ship help and escorting providers at six ports round Turkiye.
ElectRA would be the seventh electrical battery tug delivered from Sanmar Shipyards inside a 12 months, 5 of that are already working in Vancouver in Canada, whereas the sixth is at present being delivered to Norway.
Primarily based on the ElectRA 2300SX design from Canadian naval architects Robert Allan Ltd, unique to Sanmar, the brand new tug has been named DINAMO 2023.
DINAMO 2023 belongs to new period of pioneering emissions-free tugboats being constructed by Sanmar to guard the setting and create a sustainable tug trade.
This has been achieved with no lack of efficiency or energy with DINAMO 2023, because it is ready to obtain a minimal of 70 tonnes of bollard pull forward whereas working on battery energy, in line with Sanmar.
The ElectRA 2300SX has been designed to accommodate a big battery capability to allow it to realize a excessive bollard pull in a flush deck design, with the choice to take care of some backup diesel generator capability.
Measuring 23.4 meters in size, with a moulded breadth of 11.85 meters and moulded depth of 5.16 meters, DINAMO 2023 will be part of the SANMAR fleet of greater than 30 tugs with a median age of lower than three years.
“We now have acquired an enormous quantity of curiosity within the ElectRA Sequence from operators all over the world. Doing every little thing, we will in direction of defending our planet is of paramount significance and we’re, in fact, delighted to see the primary emissions free tugboat in our personal fleet. It is a milestone second for us,” mentioned Ali Gürün, Chairman of the Board of Sanmar Shipyards.
