Passenger Ship Hanaria Selected for Ship of Year 2024 – propulsion from hydrogen fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries or biodiesel fuel
The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers (JASNAOE) yesterday granted the Ship of the Year 2024 award to the Hanaria, a domestic passenger vessel having a system unequaled in the world that allows it to select a power source for propulsion from hydrogen fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries or biodiesel fuel. The Technology Special Award was, meanwhile, given to the Sakigake, the world’s first commercial-use ammonia-fueled tugboat.
The Hanaria is one of the first zero-emission vessels that contribute to achieve carbon neutrality in domestic shipping. It is designed and built by Hongawara Ship Yard, a Hiroshima-based shipbuilding company, and owned by MOL Techno-Trade, a trading house of the Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) group. Measuring 29.7 meters in length overall and 10 meters in breadth, it has capacity for 103 passengers. It has already realized CO2 emission reductions by 53% to 100% compared to conventional ships running on fossil fuels.
At a meeting convened last Friday, the selection committee so highly rated the Hanaria as a small ambitious passenger ship that generates electricity from hydrogen fuel cells and also has batteries and a biofuel engine that all members agreed to select it for the Ship of the Year 2024.
The Sakigake was nominated and unanimously selected by a committee of ship engineers for the Technology Special Award.
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Passenger Ship Hanaria Selected for Ship of Year 2024 – propulsion from hydrogen fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries or biodiesel fuel, source
