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The World's Largest Car-Carrier Ship
CGTN Europe
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11/09/2024
A Chinese-Norwegian consortium has built the world's largest car-carrier ship to run on emission-free ammonia fuel.
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Bigger, better and cleaner, this car carrier is set to revolutionize the heavily polluting
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freight sector by introducing ammonia fuel, which emits no CO2.
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Built in China, the 12 new flagship vessels will soon transport cars around the world
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under the Norwegian flag.
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It is the largest and most environmentally friendly car carrier ever built.
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And it is, in a way, defining a new era of vessels.
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When we ordered this vessel, there is nothing like it in the order book.
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Afterwards, almost all new orders have lots of similarities.
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These Chinese-built car carriers are for now running on liquefied gas, but they're set
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to switch to ammonia fuel by 2027.
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Shipbuilders are constructing this new vessel type around two huge fuel tanks in order to
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carry an efficient amount of ammonia for long distances.
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Special safety mechanisms are needed to ensure no leakage during storage, as ammonia can
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be highly toxic.
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When burned as a fuel, however, the combination of hydrogen and nitrogen, which are the component
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parts of ammonia, is completely emission-free.
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The whole value chain, from producing the fuel and then using it, you have no CO2 emissions.
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But ammonia comes at a price.
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A car transported with zero-emission fuels between continents costs a hundred dollars
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more than with fossil fuels.
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For this really to take off, we're actually dependent on having regulations and structures
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like carbon taxes and incentives that equalizes the cost between the low-carbon fuel and the
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regular fuels.
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And without those type of regulations, I think we will continue to use traditional fossil
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fuels for a long, long time.
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For now, the $1.3 billion project, mainly financed by Chinese investors, is setting
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new standards in Norwegian-Chinese cooperation.
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It'll be impossible to reach the climate goals without China playing a very important part
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in that transition.
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So we have a very strong interest in collaborating with China.
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Several other companies from the Scandinavian Kingdom have started to build their ships
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in China, an exchange of know-how and construction abilities which is changing our world.
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