Vessels

Deep dive: Battery tugs - feasible or ‘crazy’?

2025-08-14T15:14:00

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The tide of batteries flowing through the maritime industry is lapping at the hulls of all kinds of vessels, from tiny RIBs to container ships.

Driven by calls and looming regulations to operate with zero emissions, fleet operators all over the world are having to consider them, but one tug manager told Maritime Journal they were a ‘crazy’ idea.

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