{"id":5265,"date":"2015-05-07T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2015\/05\/07\/commission-commits-16m-for-e-ferry\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:45:55","slug":"commission-commits-16m-for-e-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2015\/05\/07\/commission-commits-16m-for-e-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission commits \u20ac16m for e-Ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project, which is a joint collaboration between Denmark, Greece and Norway and a host of companies, will see what is said to be the first mid-size 100% electric ferry to link Denmark\u2019s Aero Island to the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to be powered by wind-sourced electricity, the ferry is expected to save 2,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. It\u2019s also set to feature what is said to be the largest battery pack ever installed with a record-breaking high charging capacity allowing for short port stays.<\/p>\n<p>It will be capable of carrying 130 passengers and 40 vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The e-Ferry project is one of 75 research and innovation projects granted funding under the Horizon 2020 \u2018Smart, green and integrated transport\u2019 challenge. The Commission is committing a total of \u20ac484 million to turn European air, rail, road and waterborne transport into a greener, safer, more competitive and well-integrated system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission is committing \u20ac16m in funding for a 100% electric ferry that promises to cut CO2 emissions to make European waterborne transport greener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-initiatives-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265","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=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5267,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions\/5267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}