Corvus milestone

The order is the largest in Corvus’ history and is for the supply of 5,288 kWh of lithium-ion batteries for three zero-emission harbour tugs, to be built by Sanmar Shipyards for delivery to HaiSea Marine.

Geir Bjørkeli, CEO of Corvus Energy, said: “Reaching project number 500 is a significant milestone for Corvus Energy and for the maritime community. Corvus batteries make up over half of all the energy storage capacity deployed on board ships today.”

Tugs will support LNG carriers

HaiSea Marine, majority owned by the Haisla Nation in partnership with Seaspan ULC, will operate the three battery-powered harbour tugs to berth/unberth LNG carriers at the LNG Canada export terminal in Kitimat, B.C., Canada.

Bjørkeli added: “Our energy storage systems are now in a wide range of coastal, short sea, inland, subsea and port applications in hybrid and fully battery-powered configurations.

“Soon, in combination with the maritime fuel cell that Corvus is developing in partnership with Toyota, our energy storage systems will help replace fossil fuels and GHG emissions on ocean-going ships as well.”

Corvus is expanding its global production capacity and sales and service network. This includes manufacturing facilities and employees in North America and a joint venture with Sumitomo in Japan.