{"id":4865,"date":"2012-06-13T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2012\/06\/13\/hybrid-e-kotug-launch\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:42:37","slug":"hybrid-e-kotug-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2012\/06\/13\/hybrid-e-kotug-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid E-KOTUG launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The assigning of the E-KOTUG was carried out by the Vice Mayor for Sustainability of the City of Rotterdam, Mrs Alexandra van Huffelen.<\/p>\n<p>Working together with Canadian company AKA, supplier of the Xeropoint Hybrid Propulsion System, KOTUG developed an advanced eco-friendly tugboat. One of the newest Rotor Tugs, the <i>RT Adriaan <\/i>was retrofitted with the system. The system will control the electric motors, diesel engines, generators and powerful energy dense lithium polymer batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs van Huffelen said: \u201cI am incredibly proud that Rotterdam entrepreneurs like Mr. Ard-Jan Kooren together with us, are willing to pick up the challenge, to transform Rotterdam into a clean, green and healthy city. With the E-KOTUG <i>RT Adriaan<\/i>, Rotterdam is the proud owner of the first hybrid tugboat in Europe. I therefore congratulate all KOTUG staff very much with this great milestone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After its conversion in February 2012, <i>RT Adriaan<\/i> is the best solution for reducing harbour emissions and at the same time providing economic advantages.<\/p>\n<p>Its green benefits include a 50% decrease in harmful emissions, noise reduction, improved fuel economy and maintenance savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s first hybrid tugboat was launched recently at this year\u2019s well known \u2018Herring Party\u2019 in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4867,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/4867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}