The world's first fully-electric autonomous freight vessel was unveiled in Norway, marking a small but hopeful step toward decreasing the marine industry's carbon emissions.
The much-anticipated Yara Birkeland, which was unveiled to the press on Friday, will eliminate the need for around 40,000 contaminating diesel truck journeys per year by transporting up to 120 containers of fertiliser from a plant in the southeastern town of Porsgrunn to the Brevik port a dozen kilometres (about eight miles) away. The Yara Birkeland will reduce the need for around 40,000 truck trips per year that are currently powered by toxic diesel.
