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Emissions-free Barging prise, utilizing the service to transport beer from its brewery in Zoeterwoude to Moerdijk. Later, ZES aims to expand the use of ZESPacks to include the Am- sterdam – Rotterdam – Antwerp corri- dor, making a connection to Nijmegen.

The interchangeable ZESPacks will be charged using energy from renewable sources across a network of open access

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A group of partners in Europe aims to of Rotterdam Authority. charging points set up for exchanging use battery containers on board barges The project will launch ?rst in the depleted battery containers for ready- to supply environmentally friendly ful- Netherlands, where inland naviga- charged replacements. The battery ly-electric propulsion in lieu of diesel for tion accounts for 5% of carbon di- packs are even designed to be used for inland waterway shipping. oxide (CO2) emissions. Initially, the multiple applications, enabling them to

Supported by the Dutch Ministry of replaceable battery containers, called be utilized for temporary onshore use,

Infrastructure and Water Management, ZESPacks, will be used on converted such as stabilizing the local electricity the concept is being spearheaded by the and newly-built container carriers em- grid or meeting short-term demand for

Zero Emission Services B.V. (ZES), a ployed along the Zoeterwoude – Alphe- electrical power, ZES says.

consortium including technology group rium – Moerdijk corridor. Beer com- To make it easier for barge operators

Wärtsilä, ING Bank, energy and techni- pany Heineken has already signed on to to sign-on to the concept, a ‘pay-per-use’ cal service provider Engie and the Port be the ?rst end customer for the enter- ?nancing model has been developed.

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A keel laying ceremony in June marked the of?cial start of assembly on the ?rst new U.S.-?agged Great Lakes bulk car- rier to be built in more than 35 years.

During the ceremony held by The

Interlake Steamship Company and Fin- cantieri Bay Shipbuilding, (FBS) the keel was laid within the shipyard’s large graving dock in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. fol- lowing more than nine months of en- gineering and prefabrication work of

The Interlake Steamship Company its modular sections by the FBS team.

Though the build project is already well Scheduled for completion in mid- The Interlake Steamship Company, underway, the ceremony recognized the 2022, the new River-Class, self-unloading Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding and Bay keel laying as the ?rst joining of modular bulk carrier is believed to be the ?rst ship Engineering jointly designed the bulk car- components, or the lowering of the ?rst for U.S. Great Lakes service built on the rier, complete with advanced vessel and modules into place in the graving dock. Great Lakes since 1983. Measuring 639 unloading systems automation. Major

Interlake’s Chairman James R. Barker, feet long, 78 feet wide and 45 feet tall, with partners for the project include: American revealed at the event that the new vessel a deadweight of 28,000 tons, the ship will Bureau of Shipping (ABS); ArcelorMittal, would bear the name of his son and sec- transport raw materials such as salt, iron Bay Engineering (BEI); EMD Engines; ond-generation leader of the company, ore and stone to support manufacturing Caterpillar; EMS-Tech, Inc.; Lufkin (a GE

Mark W. Barker. throughout the Great Lakes region. Company), Kongsberg and MacGregor.

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