Not far from the Norwegian North Sea oil rig, the shipyard is assembling the first ever fully battery-powered ferry.
Over the years, the courtyard is deeply nestled --
Blue water and snow
The deepest fjord in the country covers mountains, mainly fuel.
The ship for the oil industry is very large.
But orders disappeared as crude oil prices plunged in recent years.
Now, like other Norwegian Industries, Norway's future prosperity depends on green development.
Erlend Hatleberg, project manager at Havyard Group, said: "If you look at the next five years, that's what we're going to do," it runs the Sognefjord shipyard, the shipyard turns to ships specialized in battery technology similar to plugsin cars.
"We are at a very deep trough.
But the event is back.
"While the progress of the world's over-polluted shipping fleet in power-on is far behind the progress of cars, Europe is taking initial steps as the Paris climate agreement targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions more and more.
Dozens of batteries.
In Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands, power vessels capable of passing inland waterways are about to make their first voyage, including some that can be fully automated without crew.
Norway is a country where almost all electricity production is water and electricity, national oil companies are expanding into offshore wind farm, and people drive more electric cars per person, more than any other country in the world
Next, Norway wants two.
On 2030, all ships carrying passengers and cars will travel along the jagged and windy Atlantic coastline.
Havyard is filling out 13 orders for zero orders
The discharge ferry received since 2016.
However, narrowing down, the progress may be a drop in the bucket.
To truly reduce marine pollution, 50,000 tankers, freighters and transport vessels crossing the ocean need to turn to renewable energy.
The biggest use of diesel engines, up to four
The story of the House, emissions equivalent to 64,000 passenger cars.
The International Clean Transport Commission has warned that, if there is no big change, by 2050, sea shipping could cause 17% of CO2 emissions, compared to 2-3 per cent now.
However, according to the International Maritime Organization, there is no shipping in the Paris agreement, and battery technology has not yet developed to a long enough ocean voyage, the plan will release a set of preliminary guidelines for greenhouse gas reduction in April.
"Battery technology is not competitive at all, and further major developments are still needed in terms of performance and cost reduction in order to be better than synthetic fuels," Lloyd's registered group said . " A report in the 18 th century said that an ocean classification Association was established in December.
Currently, electric boats make the most sense in densely populated coastal areas where they can be easily charged and improve air quality and noise pollution.
Battery 185
According to dnv gl, a ship classification and assurance company near Oslo, power ships in operation or planned to be delivered globally in 2018, mostly in Norway and France.
Because there are hundreds of fjords in Norway --
Can extend hundreds of kilometers inland narrow sea entrance
Make the ferry an important supplement to road transportation.
About 60 batteries-2021-
Edvard Sandvik, head of the ferry department at the Norwegian Public Roads Authority, said the power or hybrid vessels would be put into operation. The first zero-
The discharge ferry, named MF amp, began sailing between Oppedal and Lavik village in Sognefjord in 2015.
Operated by Norled, it is made of light aluminum and runs in 10 tons of lithium-
Up to 350 passengers and 120 cars are available. After each 20-
Travel for one minute and recharge for 10 minutes.
Ride smoother and quieter than diesel-Power ferry.
Some of the initial problems left the ship behind two other ferries on the same route, frustrating commuters, but then it caught up again.
"I doubt very much whether the first steam engine is perfect," said Captain Steiner Johansson, 47 . ".
"You will never do anything if you are always waiting for something better.
In the Netherlands, Port-
BV will deploy 5, 52-
20 m Container Barge
The chief executive, Ton van Meegen, said hiking batteries could cruise for 15 hours this year.
He predicts that when they start serving the ports of Antwerp, Belgium and the Dutch cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, they will transfer about 23,000 trucks from European roads.
Also in the pipeline: 10 capable in 4 20-foot-long batteries.
They will cut 18,000 cubic tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, he said.
"Technology, all the new ideas, is going very fast," Van Meegen said . ".
"I don't know what will happen in the next 50 years, but it will be a completely different world.
"Europe's 7,300 inland ships will eventually be converted according to global rules, and all shipments, except aircraft, will need to use greener technology by 2050.
Van Meegan says their cars are already 350,000 euros ($434,000) cheaper than regular diesel ). But batteries-
Manufactured by companies such as Canadian Corvus Energy-drive up costs.
Regulation is also lagging.
Although companies are racing to design shipless vessels, IMO has yet to establish rules governing shipless vessels. Port-
Liner's Dutch barge can be fully automated, while a division of the Norwegian technology company Kongsberg Gruppen ASA will have 79 ships. 5-metre, battery-powered, open-
Top Container ships ready by 2020. Rolls-
Royce Holdings Ltd predicts its first unmanned ocean
The ship will sail for the first time as soon as 2035 metres.
Back in Norway, the national and regional governments spent 3 billion crowns ($0. 386 billion) a year operating 200 ferries to serve 130 routes, and Hatleberg is counting on orders to continue.
Before electric boats became popular, the workforce in the yard was reduced by more than a quarter.
On a cold day in February, about 120 ships welded, hammered and laid 75,000 m of cables on the latest ferry
M. , 2,100 tons MF Husavik, scheduled for delivery to ferry operator Fjord1 at the earliest.
"We finally have a job again," says Hatleberg . ".
"This is a very difficult project.
But people are enthusiastic, and there is an extreme will to do so.