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China: Battery-powered Cruiser Debuts on Yangtze
Monday May 16, 2022
An electric-powered cruise vessel to be deployed on China's inland rivers has made its maiden voyage.
The ship, called Chang Jiang San Xia 1, has a 1,300 passenger capacity and will ply the Gezhouba dam and Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze river.
According to technology news provider offshore-energy, the ship has a range of has a 100 kilometres and runs on hydroelectric energy .
In addition, It is one of the first all-electric ships to adopt a system of high-voltage charging and low-voltage power supplement, the report said.
To combat emissions from shipping traffic, the Yangtze river delta adopted a 0.5% limit on sulphur in bunker fuel ahead of the global cap which came into force on 1 January, 2020.
