{"id":867,"date":"2025-09-25T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimejournal.nfdtesting.uk\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2025\/09\/25\/special-report-batteries-at-the-helm-in-maritime\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:17:15","slug":"special-report-batteries-at-the-helm-in-maritime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2025\/09\/25\/special-report-batteries-at-the-helm-in-maritime\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL REPORT: Batteries at the helm in maritime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/special-reports\/marine-batteries\/marine-batteries-issue-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Maritime Journal\u2019s<\/em> new Special Reports,<\/a><em>&nbsp;<\/em>we look at the situation to date from the perspective of marine battery makers.<\/p>\n<p>Similar themes emerged from our interviews: performance; cost; the safety element; charging challenges and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>We also look at the charging scenario and some of the innovations coming out to address it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The companies we spoke to \u2013 our sponsor, AYK Energy; EST-Floattech; Leclanch\u00e9 and W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4\u202f\u2013 are confident in this space and are working around the clock on new chemistries, new densities, scaling up and better performance.<\/p>\n<p>What is clear is that the pace of change is accelerating.<\/p>\n<p>With more than a thousand battery-powered vessels already in operation worldwide and many more on order, electrification is becoming mainstream \u2013 it\u2019s just how it will happen that is the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long seen as the cornerstone of the transition to low- and zero-emission shipping, batteries are now being deployed at scale across a growing range of vessel types, from ferries and tugs to offshore support ships and even coastal cargo carriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}