Japanese joint venture to deploy all-electric shoreline tanker

Corvus Energy has announced on its website that it has been selected by the Japanese e5 project to supply the battery power for a propulsion system to be designed by Kawasaki Heavy Industries for a soon-to-be deployed shoreline tanker—the first of its kind. The ship itself will be built and run by Asahi Tanker Co., Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan and will be called, at least initially, the e5 tanker. It has a launch date of sometime next year and will represent the first all-electric tanker to be used for commercial purposes. The same group plans to launch a follow-up ship two years later.