Yara Birkeland

Yara Birkeland

Ship data flag  Norway Ship type Container Ship home port Porsgrunn Owner Yara International Shipyard Vard Build number 909 Order August 2018 Keel laying 19th February 2019 Launch 19th February 2020

Ship dimensions and crew length 79.50 m ( Lüa ) 72.40 m ( Lpp ) width 14.80 m Side height 10.80 m Draft Max. 6.00 m

Machine system machine 2 × electric motor Machine performance 1,800 kW (2,447 hp) Top speed 13 kn (24 km / h) propeller 2 × propeller pods

Transport capacities Load capacity 3120 dw Container 120 TEU

Others Classifications DNV GL IMO no. 9865049

The Yara Birkeland is a container ship under construction . It is to be the first autonomously operated cargo ship worldwide.

history

The ship was ordered from the Norwegian shipbuilding group Vard in August 2018 . It is being built under construction number 909. The hull was built at the Vard shipyard in Brăila , Romania . The construction of the ship began with the first steel cut on December 14, 2018. The keel was laid on February 19, 2019, the launch on February 19, 2020. The hull was in April / May 2020 for completion and equipment to the Vard shipyard in Brattvåg , Norway, towed.

The ship design (type: MT 2007) comes from the Norwegian ship architecture firm Marin Teknikk. The construction costs amount to around NOK 250 million . The Norwegian state is funding the construction with its company Enova , which is supposed to support the conversion to more environmentally friendly consumption and sustainable production in the energy sector , with NOK 133 million. The name of the ship is made up of the company name Yara and the surname of one of the company's founders, Kristian Birkeland .

The project was stopped at the beginning of May 2020 until further notice due to the corona pandemic and the associated economic development.

description

The ship is planned for use as a feeder ship between the Yara fertilizer plant in the Herøya industrial park and the ports of Brevik and Larvik , which are around seven and 30 nautical miles away. This should save around 40,000 truck trips per year. Initially, operation with a ship's crew is planned for a transitional phase. A temporary bridge will be installed for this.

The ship has a hatch-free hold . This facilitates the automated handling of the containers . The hold is divided into four compartments and equipped with cell guides. The capacity of the ship is 120  TEU .

The ship is driven electrically by two azimuth thruster with tractor propellers, each with 900  kW power . It is equipped with two bow thrusters , each with an output of 700 kW. Accumulators with 6.8 MWh are available for the power supply  . For redundancy reasons, these are housed in four separate rooms. The accumulators should be able to be charged in at least one of the ports regularly called at.

The ship will be equipped with an automatic mooring system in ports. The transport chain from the factory to the ship, including loading the ship, is also to be automated.

Awards

The marine architecture firm Marin Teknikk was awarded the award for the “Green Innovation of the Year” (Årets grønne innovasjon) in October 2018 during an industrial design conference in Giske .

Yara International and the Kongsberg Group were awarded the Climate Prize 2018 by the Zero Environmental Foundation for the development of the first emission-free and autonomous container ship in November 2018 and the Green Award 2019 at the Greentech Festival in Berlin in March 2019 .

literature

• Kjell Jørgen Holbye: Byggingen av Yara Birkeland er i gang. In: Navigare , 2/2019, Sjøfartsdirektoratet, ISSN  0804-4589 , pp. 36–37 ( online , PDF, 3.4 MB).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Kurt W. Vadset: Vard Skal bygge Yara Birkeland , Maritimt Magasin, August 16, 2018. Accessed July 14, 2020.
2. ↑ Kurt W. Vadset: I gang med verdens første selvkjørende containerskip , Maritimt Magasin, December 17, 2018. Accessed July 14, 2020.
3. ↑ Yara Birkeland , Marin Teknikk. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
4. ↑ 133 millioner til verdens første autonome, hel-elektriske containerskip , press release, Enova, September 28, 2017. Accessed July 14, 2020.
5. ↑ Construction of Yara Birkeland Paused , Maritime Executive, May 12, 2020. Accessed July 14, 2020.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Autonomous ship project, key facts about Yara Birkeland , Kongsberg Maritime. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
7. ↑ Norway Banking On A Game-Changer , The Motorship, January 9, 2020. Accessed July 14, 2020.
8. ^ YARA Birkeland Autonomous Container Vessel , Ship Technology. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
9. ^ Yara Birkeland press kit , Yara International. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
10. ^ Breathing life into Yara Birkeland , Riviera Maritime Media. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
11. ↑ MacGregor automated mooring solution specified for the world's first autonomous and zero-emission container ship, Yara Birkeland , press release, MacGregor, June 13, 2019. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
12. ↑ Kalmar and Yara to develop world's first fully-digitalized and zero emission cargo solution for Yara Birkeland , press release, Kalmar, May 24, 2018. Accessed July 14, 2020.
13. ↑ Andrea Bærland: Prisdryss over maritimt industridesign , Skipsrevyen, October 19, 2018. Accessed July 14, 2020.
14. ↑ Best Green Innovation Award 2018 , press release, Marin Teknikk. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
15. ↑ Yara Birkeland fikk Næringslivets klimapris 2018 , press release, Miljøstiftelsen Zero, November 7, 2018. Accessed July 14, 2020.
16. ↑ Yara Birkeland vant Næringslivets Klimapris , press release, Yara International, November 7, 2018. Accessed July 14, 2020.
17. ↑ Winner of the Green Award 2019 , UmweltDialog, March 30, 2019. Accessed July 14, 2020.
18. ↑ Helge Martin Markussen: "Yara Birkeland" vant grønn pris , Skipsrevyen, May 27, 2019. Accessed on July 14, 2020.