Belgium’s Flemish Government has ordered a new 80 meter EUR 54.36 million battery hybrid pilot boat. Its current Pilot Boat 1 and Pilot Boat 7 are due for replacement and the new
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Belgium’s Flemish Government has ordered a new 80 meter EUR 54.36 million battery hybrid pilot boat. Its current Pilot Boat 1 and Pilot Boat 7 are due for replacement and the new boat is describe as an innovative and sustainable successor.
“For government shipping company Vloot, part of the Maritime Services and Coast Agency (MDK), this new type of ship is a milestone in the greening strategy that we have been working on for years,” said says Tim Van Dijck, director of Vloot. “The vessel will be equipped with an innovative diesel-electric propulsion with hybrid functionality. This system minimizes emissions and can later be adapted to use the more climate-friendly methanol as fuel. With this, we continue to take steps towards the environmental objectives for 2030,” says Tim Van Dijck, director of Vloot.
The order for the battery-hybrid pilot boat has been placed with the Nordic Yards Group, a Finnish-Estonian joint venture between Baltic Workboats and Summa Defence,
The new
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