Clean power barges launch in US

Artist's impression of a CHAMP clean power barge providing power to a vessel in harbour

Source: EBDG

US marine transportation company Centerline Logistics has teamed up with naval architecture firm Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) on a barge-based solution for ports lacking shorepower.

The partnership focuses on EBDG’s innovative Clean Harbor Alternative Mobile Power (CHAMP) barge, a floating platform designed to reduce ship emissions by up to 93% while vessels are in port.

The CHAMP barges will initially feature methanol-fuelled generator technology, offering power capacities between 6 and 16 MW.

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