# Yara Birkeland at Porsgrunn: deployment

Canonical ID: `c347d2d1-c82e-4053-8973-0b7f20a4b92b`

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_

- **Slug:** yara-birkeland-norway-route
- **Status:** active
- **Model:** [Yara Birkeland](/models/yara-birkeland-ship.md) (id: `1f722d2a-b9b2-47ab-93dc-e3eb7246310f`)
- **Company:** [Yara International](/companies/yara-birkeland.md) (id: `571e2b9f-329e-4b65-a15e-f4da689c1ced`)
- **Location:** [Porsgrunn](/locations/porsgrunn-norway.md) (id: `ecadf2d3-5b13-4eb9-a003-66e68f886014`)

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (5)

1. https://www.yara.com/news-and-media/news-archive/2022/yara-birkeland/
2. https://www.kongsberg.com/maritime/products/autonomous-solutions/
3. https://www.yara.com/knowledge-grows/yara-birkeland-two-years-on/
4. https://gcaptain.com/yara-birkeland-worlds-first-autonomous-zero-emission-ship/
5. https://www.marinelink.com/news/autonomous-vessels-already-working-but-still-under-close-review-514526

## 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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