On December 28, the two 700TEU-class electric
container vessels N997 and N998 ordered by COSCO SHIPPING Development were
successfully named at COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry (Yangzhou) Shipyard.
Sun Yunfei, Deputy General Manager and Chief
Accountant of COSCO SHIPPING, Wang Jianbin, Deputy Director General of Changjiang
River Administration of Navigational Affairs of MOT, Zhao Yan, Vice President of China Classification
Society, Tong Laiming, Deputy General Manager of China Chengtong Holdings
Group, Zhou Xiaoneng, Chief Economist
of Energy
China Group, Zhang Rizhong, General Manager
of China
Merchants Investment Development Company Limited, Huang Haidong, Marketing Director of SIPG, Zhu
Dingjin, Mayor of Jiangdu District People's Government of Yangzhou City, Liang
Yanfeng, Chairman of COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry, Zhang Mingwen, General
Manager of COSCO SHIPPING Development, Maciej Cezary Lepicki, General Manager
of Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company, and other leaders and guests
attended the naming ceremony and visited the vessel. Ms. Jing Tao from China
Merchants Group and Ms. Gu Cuihong from Energy China Group named N997 and N998 as "ZHONG
YUAN HAI YUN LV SHUI 01" and "ZHONG YUAN HAI YUN LV SHUI 02",
respectively.
At the ceremony, China Classification Society awarded a certificate of Outstanding
Innovation Cooperation Project of New Energy to COSCO SHIPPING Development.
The 700TEU-class electric container vessel is the
first batch of green, zero-carbon intelligent electrification pilot vessels for
container transportation on the Yangtze River mainline. The vessel is
independently designed, developed and built by China, with independent
intellectual property rights, and is in the world's leading position in terms
of the number of containers loaded, deadweight tons and battery capacity of
electric container vessels.
COSCO SHIPPING Development, in conjunction with
China Merchants Group, Energy China Group and relevant companies under China Chengtong Holdings
Group, have established the Lv Shui New
Shipping Technology Co., Ltd. to build a charging and exchanging service system
around the hub ports, and to provide the market with comprehensive services for
the whole chain of electrification of ships.
A single 700TEU-class electric container vessel is
expected to be able to reduce 2,918 tons of carbon dioxide emissions in a year,
which is exemplary for the green and low-carbon transformation of the Yangtze
River shipping, and provides a solution to the dilemma of solving the
relationship between the ecological and environmental protection and economic
development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
The successful naming of "ZHONG YUAN HAI YUN
LV SHUI" vessels is not only a demonstration project taking advantage of
the synergy of the Group's industrial clusters, but also a key project for
COSCO SHIPPING to actively comply with the new trend of the development of
green, low-carbon and intelligent shipping industry, and to assist in the green
transformation of the Yangtze River's shipping.
In the future, COSCO SHIPPING Development will take
the "ZHONG YUAN HAI YUN LV SHUI" vessels as a starting point, and
extend it to the Pearl River, Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, Bohai Bay, Beibu Gulf and
other domestic inland and coastal waters, so as to provide experience and solutions
for emission reduction in China's inland and coastal shipping.