Incat Tasmania and Molslinjen sign contract for third battery-electric high-speed catamaran

High-speedMolslinjen has now ordered the third battery-powered catamaran for the operation on the Kattegat. The shipping company has already ordered the first two ferries from Australian Incat, and it will also be the Tasmanian shipping company that will build the third ferry, which together will be the world's largest electrification project at sea.

The signatures have now been put on an order for another battery-powered mega-catamaran for Molslinjen's routes across the Kattegat. The ferry will be the third in a series of electric ferries to Aarhus, and construction of the first two is already underway at Incat.

And it will also be the Tasmanian shipyard in Hobart, which will build the third emission-free ferry for the busy, floating bridge between Jutland and Zealand.

"There will be obvious advantages to having the three ferries built in the same place, and there will be valuable learning along the way from the first to the last ferry. And it has been important for us to have a stable and solid supplier," says Kristian Durhuus, CEO of Molslinjen.

Molslinjen is thus embarking on the world's largest and most ambitious electrification project at sea. The price for the 129-metre-long ferries and the associated infrastructure on land amounts to DKK 3.5 billion. The project was recently awarded an important contribution in the form of support of DKK 180 million from the Investment Support Fund 2025.

"We and our owners are leading the way here and trying to show the way for a green transition with technology that was not present at all very recently. This kind of innovation is expensive, and it has been crucial for us to get the government's support for this electric adventure," says Kristian Durhuus.

The three ferries will electrify Molslinjen's entire operation on the Kattegat. The plan is for the ferries to be deployed as they arrive in Denmark. The first ferry is scheduled to hit Danish waters at the end of 2027, the next in the summer of 2028, and the third in the spring of 2029.

Carsten Jensen, CEO of Nordic Ferry Infrastructure (NFI), owners of Molslinjen, says:

"With the order of a third ferry, we are really kicking off the world's largest electrification project at sea – and we are extremely proud of this project, which shows what is possible when ambition meets innovation."