SeaTech, Shift and Vitol Partner to Develop Singapore’s First Hybrid Electric Bunker Tankers

Vancouver-based energy storage systems (ESS) solutions provider Shift Clean Energy (Shift) and Singapore-based vessel design and engineering firm SeaTech Solutions (SeaTech) on Tuesday (8 March) entered into a partnership to provide Vitol’s bunker operations company, V-Bunkers, with Singapore’s first hybrid bunker tankers. Photo credit: Manifold Times The vessels will be designed by SeaTech, using Shift’s ESS systems. This marine electrification project will see up to four hybrid bunker tankers provided to V-Bunkers, all fitted with Shift’s 480-Kwh liquid cooled ESS and battery...

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