AMPERE © Søren Lund Hviid

Pioneer ferry offered on the second-hand market

FerryThe ferry AMPERE, built in 2015, is now entering the second-hand market, reportedly as the first fully electric ferry ever. The Norwegian ship broker Truls Strandheim of J Gran & Co AS has been tasked by the ferry operator Norled with selling AMPERE when the vessel is replaced by new tonnage on the concession-based route between Lavik and Oppedal on 1 September this year.

Under a new contract for the route, another operator, Fjord1, will instead operate four potentially autonomously operating fully electric ferries, which the company will receive from Tersan Shipyard in Turkey. When the 1.46 MWh battery equipped AMPERE was delivered from Fjellstrand in 2015, it was the world’s first fully electric RoPax ferry.

At that time, the concept was more extreme than it is today, as all new ferries described as fully electric now also carry a number of backup or “take-me-home” combustion engine-based generator sets on board.

AMPERE does not have such systems and is therefore one of only two previous fully electric ferries built with this extreme approach. The other ferry is the Danish ferry ELLEN, which was delivered from Søby Shipyard in 2019.

feb 18 2026