{"id":347043,"date":"2025-12-14T07:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347043\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:47:13","slug":"chinas-ev-battery-giants-wade-into-shipbuilding-to-bolster-beijings-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347043\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s EV battery giants wade into shipbuilding to bolster Beijing\u2019s dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/3325580\/ev-battery-giant-catls-earnings-outlook-brightens-it-extends-market-share?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">China\u2019s leading battery makers for electric cars<\/a> \u2013 Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) and Gotion High-tech \u2013 are adding momentum to the country\u2019s efforts to build new-energy vessels, with their latest products supplied to large ocean carriers amid an accelerated decarbonisation drive.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese-made pure electric-powered container vessels were also set to extend Beijing\u2019s lead over global rivals in shipbuilding, according to industry officials and analysts.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">CATL, the world\u2019s largest electric vehicle (EV) battery producer, announced recently that its self-developed pure electric vessel would sail the oceans in three years, reinforcing the company\u2019s ambitions of building itself into a global new-energy powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/3263300\/volkswagen-backed-chinese-ev-battery-maker-gotion-takes-rival-catl-superfast-charging-lfp-product?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gotion, backed by Volkswagen Group<\/a>, said early this month that its battery packs had proved strong enough to power a ship with a loading capacity of 132 standard containers. The vessel, known as Puffer Fish Blue 01, developed by China\u2019s Wuhu Shipyard and Sandianshui New Energy Technology, had been certified by the China Classification Society, a professional body for ship classification, it added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cTheir investment and efforts to build pure electric container vessels show China\u2019s increasing influence in the global shipbuilding industry,\u201d said Xiong Hao, assistant general \u00admanager at Shanghai Jump International Shipping. \u201cIt remains to be seen whether electric vessels will be widely accepted by global container liners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People visit a model of a nuclear-powered container ship at Marintec China 2025 in Shanghai on December 2, 2025. Photo: Getty Images\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/39c759ee-7e25-4ec4-b9dc-aa78a7047e5c_fe822e91.jpg\" title=\"People visit a model of a nuclear-powered container ship at Marintec China 2025 in Shanghai on December 2, 2025. Photo: Getty Images\"\/>People visit a model of a nuclear-powered container ship at Marintec China 2025 in Shanghai on December 2, 2025. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">CATL, which holds a 38 per cent share of the global EV battery market this year, began developing the shipbuilding applications in 2017 and has since supplied batteries to 900 vessels, all operating in rivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s leading battery makers for electric cars \u2013 Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) and Gotion High-tech \u2013 are adding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,191742,191740,99,115680,191739,191738,191741,22532],"class_list":["post-347043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-autoflight","tag-battery-powered-vessels","tag-business","tag-catl","tag-ev-battery-giants","tag-gotion","tag-jiangnan-shipyard","tag-volkswagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}