Recently, the design and construction contract of China's first and the world's largest 740TEU pure electric open container ships independently developed and designed by Shanghai Ship Research and Design Institute under China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited was officially signed for Ningbo Ocean Shipping Co., LTD. This marks that China's coastal container ship operation will enter the zero-emission, pure electric era, in order to practice the national "dual-carbon" strategy, and promote the green zero-carbon high-quality development of China's shipping is a milestone significance.

The ship type demonstrates the design concept of "energy saving, environmental protection, economy, efficiency and intelligence", and fully demonstrates the sense of environmental protection and science and technology in the appearance color and shape, and is expected to become the market benchmark ship type.

The ship will be built by Jiangxi Jiang New Shipbuilding Co., LTD., the total length of 127.8 meters, the width of 21.6 meters, the design draft of 6.2 meters, can sail in the domestic coastal navigation area, the target route is Ningbo - Zhapu, classified into China shipping Society.

The ship has about 740 standard 20-foot compartments and can carry more than 9,000 tons of dead weight. The ship has 4 cargo holds and 7 hatches, all of which are hatchless design, reducing loading and unloading time and berthing time; The electric pusher compartment is set in the stern, which has one more cargo compartment than the conventional power ship, and has a larger cargo space. The bow is also specially equipped with a wind-drag type superstructure, which can effectively reduce vibration noise and improve the comfort of the crew's working life.

The ship uses twin propeller propulsion to improve maneuverability in complex waters. The propulsion system is equipped with two 875 KW permanent magnet synchronous propulsion motors, with a maximum speed of 11.5 knots, achieving zero emissions for operation and berthing cargo.

Lithium as a clean energy, the industry is optimistic about its place in the future energy. With the construction of supporting facilities such as changing power stations, the ship type can greatly improve the endurance capacity, which is expected to produce more application scenarios and further improve the level of diversified carbon reduction. Editor/Wang Tian