{"id":43238,"date":"2024-05-14T18:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/dfds-to-invest-1-2-billion-in-six-battery-electric-ships\/43238\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T18:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:25:11","slug":"dfds-to-invest-1-2-billion-in-six-battery-electric-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/dfds-to-invest-1-2-billion-in-six-battery-electric-ships\/43238\/","title":{"rendered":"DFDS to Invest $1.2 Billion in Six Battery Electric Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"meta\">\n<span class=\"\" itemprop=\"author\">MarineLink<\/span><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-05-14T07:49:28.0000000\"\/><br \/>\n<span class=\"date\">May 14, 2024<\/span><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2024-05-14T07:49:28.0000000\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"images-wrapper single\">\n<div class=\"images\">\n<div class=\"image active\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\nImage courtesy DFDS\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<p>DFDS said it will invest $1.2 billion in six battery electric vessels for operation in the English Channel, to be deployed on the Dunkirk-Dover and Calais-Dover routes to carry passengers and freight between the U.K. and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>The first two electric vessels will be in operation by 2030, while the rest are expected to follow before 2035, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important step towards decarbonizing cross-Channel transport,&#8221; said <strong>Torben Carlsen, CEO of DFDS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In April, DFDS said it also plans to introduce two methanol- and two ammonia- fueled vessels as part of a push to reduce emissions from its fleet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MarineLink May 14, 2024 Image courtesy DFDS DFDS said it will invest $1.2 billion in six battery electric vessels for operation in the English Channel, to be deployed on the Dunkirk-Dover and Calais-Dover routes to carry passengers and freight between the U.K. and the European Union. The first two electric vessels will be in operation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/43239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}