Shipping Telegraph: Robert Allen designs electric tug for Tianjin Port

by Shipping Telegraph

The Canadian ship designer Robert Allan Ltd. announce that it has been awarded a contract to design an AmpRA 3600 tug for Tianjin Port in Northern China.

The AmpRA 3600 series tug will be constructed at Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard (Group) Co. Ltd the sip designer states.

This builds on a successful conventional propulsion design for the same Owner and shipyard, with two vessels of similar hull form in service but with this new tug having a much greener propulsion system!

This ordered AmpRA 3600 will have all powering from batteries, with no generator sets onboard, making it a fully battery electric and diesel free ship handling tug, making it the first Robert Allan Ltd. battery electric vessel operating in China.

The main equipment will be supplied by leading Chinese manufacturers, including over 7 MWh of batteries from CATL, the electrical system from the 704 Institute, and L-drives from Nanjing High Accurate Marine Equipment Co., Ltd.

The AmpRA 3600 is 35.8 m long, 11.2 m moulded breadth and with 62 tons bollard pull.