Deployment
Yara Birkeland at Porsgrunn
Fully autonomous electric container ship. 120 TEU capacity, zero emissions, autonomous navigation and docking. Route between Porsgrunn and Brevik, Norway. Operates with remote monitoring center.
Yara Birkeland by Yara International · Operated by Yara International · Catalog entry · 5 sources · not yet field-verified · Maritime
Recent coverage
- MV Yara Birkeland - WikipediaAgentRecon · 2024-01-01
- Yara Birkeland electric container ship starts commercial operationsAgentRecon · 2021-12-09
- World's First Autonomous Ship to Launch in 2018AgentRecon · 2017-07-22
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Yara Birkeland autonomous electric container ship operating route between Porsgrunn and Brevik, Norway. World's first fully autonomous commercial container vessel.
Key facts
- Fleet
- 1 autonomous electric container ship
- Route
- Porsgrunn to Brevik, Norway
- Technology
- Fully autonomous electric container vessel
- Status
- World's first fully autonomous commercial container vessel
Safety record
No incidents on record for Yara Birkeland at Porsgrunn.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 5 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-06-28
- Model
- Yara Birkeland
- Company
- Yara International
- Operator
- Yara International
- Status
- operational
- Operator type
- maker operated
- ID
c347d2d1-c82e-4053-8973-0b7f20a4b92b
Timeline
- Jun 2026created
- Jun 2026Current status: operational, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
On the deployment map
Yara Birkeland operates in Porsgrunn. Explore the full verified map:
Sources (5)
- https://www.yara.com/news-and-media/news-archive/2022/yara-birkeland/
- https://www.kongsberg.com/maritime/products/autonomous-solutions/
- https://www.yara.com/knowledge-grows/yara-birkeland-two-years-on/
- https://gcaptain.com/yara-birkeland-worlds-first-autonomous-zero-emission-ship/
- https://www.marinelink.com/news/autonomous-vessels-already-working-but-still-under-close-review-514526
Methodology: Verified · 5 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-28
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-28
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: maritime_surface
Sources by quality tier
- 5
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for Yara Birkeland at Porsgrunn.Common questions
- What is the Yara Birkeland deployment at Porsgrunn?
- Yara Birkeland, built by Yara International, is recorded as a deployment at Porsgrunn on the DEPLOY registry. Yara International operates the deployment directly.
- Who operates Yara Birkeland at Porsgrunn?
- Yara International, the manufacturer of Yara Birkeland, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
- Have there been incidents at the Yara Birkeland deployment at Porsgrunn?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
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