HaiSea Marine’s first battery-electric harbor tug, HaiSea Wamis[Photograph: Sanmar Shipyards]
Canada’s HaiSea Marine has taken supply of the primary of three battery electrical harbor tugs from Turkey’s Sanmar Shipyards. The tug, the HaiSea Wamis has been constructed to Robert Allan Ltd.’s ElectRA 2800SX design and is the shipbuilder’s first battery electrical tug.
HaiSea Marine, a three way partnership partnership between the Haisla First Nation and Seaspan ULC, has ordered the three all-electric harbor tugs beneath an LNG Canada contract to construct and function the harbor and escort tugs tugs required for its export facility in Kitimat, B.C.
The two LNG dual-fueled Robert Allan Ltd design RAstar 4000-DF escort tugs HaiSea Marine has ordered for the Kitimat terminal contract are additionally being constructed by Sanmar.
The all-electric HaiSea Wamis harbor tug is propelled by two Schottel CombiDrives sort SCD 460 (2,100 kW every) with four-bladed propellers with a diameter of two.6 meters and powered by electrical motors built-in on high of every unit. This thruster setup permits the harbor tugs to attain a bollard pull of roughly 70 tonnes.
The tugs are ABS classed.
“We were pleased to work with all of our partners to deliver this state-of-the-art, fully electric harbor tug. We appreciate the critical role ABS played, providing class services and supporting safety throughout the design and construction,” mentioned Hakan Tunc, Engineering Director of Sanmar Shipyards.
