The tug will play a crucial role in Port of Antwerp-Bruges\u2019 efforts to green its fleet and to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. <\/p>\n
\u201cHydrogen is one of the keys to an economy and society with minimal climate impact. As such, it is one of the raw materials, energy sources and fuels of the future,\u201d said Jacques Vandermeiren, CEO Port of Antwerp-Bruges.<\/p>\n
\u201cPort of Antwerp-Bruges wants to fully exploit its potential and is committed to being an active pioneer in the hydrogen economy on a European scale. With the Hydrotug 1, the world\u2019s first hydrogen-powered tugboat, we want to be a source of inspiration as well as an example for other ports.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hydrogen pioneers<\/strong><\/p>\n The Hydrotug 1 is the first tugboat in the world to be powered by combustion engines that burn hydrogen in combination with traditional fuel. It is the first vessel that uses the BeHydro V12 dual fuel medium speed engines \u2013 each providing two megawatts \u2013 with the latest EU Stage V emissions after treatment.<\/p>\n With these engines, the vessel uses clean fuels, resulting in an overall reduction of 65% of traditional fuel consumption and associated emissions in the tugboat\u2019s overall cycle.<\/p>\n The Hydrotug 1 can store 415kg of compressed hydrogen in 6 stillages installed on deck and eliminates the emission\u2019s equivalent of 350 cars per year.<\/p>\n Dimensions:<\/strong> Beam: 12.5m, Length overall: 30m, moulded depth: 5m, depth of the propellors: 5.9m<\/p>\n Total of 415 kg of compressed hydrogen stored in 54 x individual Type 3 cylinders installed in 6 x stillages on deck<\/p>\n 2 x 2MW V12 dual fuel BeHydro engines with EU Stage V compliant after treatment (SCR and particulate filter)<\/p>\n 65 ton bollard pull<\/p>\n Classification by Lloyd\u2019s Register<\/p>\n Double hull<\/p>\n Volvo Penta D8 MG Stage V for auxiliaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hydrotug 1, the first hydrogen-powered tugboat dveeloped by\u00a0Port of Antwerp-Bruges and CMB.TECH is ready to begin port operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,46],"tags":[40,487,10,488,362,1345],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-energy-technology-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-cmb-tech","tag-hydrogen","tag-port-of-antwerp-bruges","tag-port-vessels","tag-tugboat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3927,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hydrotug 1 specifications<\/strong><\/h3>\n