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 · Catalog entry · 5 sources · not yet field-verified
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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.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 5 sources · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-06-07
- Model
- Yara Birkeland
- Company
- Yara International
- Location
- Porsgrunn
- Status
- active
- ID
c347d2d1-c82e-4053-8973-0b7f20a4b92b
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 2026-06-07
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-07
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: maritime
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.
- Is the Yara Birkeland deployment at Porsgrunn still active?
- As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, this deployment is currently operating.
- 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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