AVATAR - Milestone! - New hull arived in Ghent

31 January 2022 - Published by Tom Pauwels

Big milestone! The hull of the new AVATAR vessel has arrived in Ghent. Congratulations to project partner Peter Geirnaert!

The hull of the new AVATAR vessel has arrived in Ghent. Congratulations to project partner Peter Geirnaert!

One of the AVATAR goals is to build a new, highly automated vessel (load capacity 25 ton, zero-emission) to be used for city freight distribution.

In a next step, the team of E. Van Wingen will co-develop the new AVATAR vessel with the appropriate engine and equipment. SEAFAR will also be involved in this development and in the automation part. The universities KULeuven (IMP research group), TUDelft and University of Oldenburg will do tests with the ship in the Living Lab Ghent. SSPA is involved in tracking the performance data.

The goal is to start with real life tests in the city of Ghent with the new AVATAR vessel on 1/7/2022, in cooperation with other AVATAR project partners.

See also info on AVATAR Linkedin, LIHH Linkedin, LIHH Twitter and LIHH Blog.

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