Viking Princess swaps generator for battery

Viking Princess now runs on a combination of a battery pack for energy storage and three LNG-fuelled engines

The Norwegian vessel ‘Viking Princess’ has become the first ever offshore supply vessel in which batteries reduce the number of generators aboard the ship, after technology group Wärtsilä completed the installation of a hybrid energy system.

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