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It seems like only a couple of months since Boundary Layer announced its $5 million-ish round of financing, but the company hasn\u2019t been resting on its laurels. Today, its founders told me it signed up some beefy launch partners and is gearing up for a large-scale roll-out as early as 2025.<\/p>\n
The company is planning to operate high-speed, hydrogen-powered cargo ships called ARGO \u2014 the menacing-looking beast at the top of this article. The ships offer zero-emission transit alternatives. The company hopes that its solutions can compete with regional air freight.<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s flagship ARGO will be powered by green liquid hydrogen and fuel cells, emitting zero CO2<\/sub> during operation. That\u2019s an attractive feature for companies trying to cut into their climate impact. Reducing reliance on air freight is a key aspect of that.<\/p>\n \u201cWe recognize that new technologies like ARGO play an important role in reducing our carbon emissions, especially in hard-to-abate sectors like air transportation,\u201d said Marcus LeMaster, global director of Logistics Sustainability at Schneider Electric of part Boundary Layer\u2019s press briefing. \u201cAs launch partners, we look forward to supporting [Boundary Layer] as they bring this product to market.\u201d<\/p>\n Ed Kearney, CEO of Boundary Layer Technologies, bets the future of the company on a huge vision \u2014 he believes nearly every Fortune 500 company using air freight in Asia will eventually need the company\u2019s high-speed container transport.<\/p>\n \u201cOur recent partnerships mark a significant step towards realizing our vision of launching the world\u2019s first high-speed, zero-emissions freight service using hydrofoil container ships. From here, we are singularly focused on getting our first vessel ready to load containers for our launch partners by Q1 2025,\u201d said Kearney. \u201cIn addition to these launch partners, we are also in advanced discussions with many other large corporations spanning the verticals of computer manufacturers, medical equipment suppliers, consumer electronics, and automotive OEMs. This really demonstrates the breadth of problems ARGO is already solving around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n The first vessel will be launched into operation in Asia by 2025 and will have a gross payload capacity of 200 tons. It will operate at a cruising speed of 40 knots, enabled by the company\u2019s proprietary hydrofoil technology. The exact routes for service will be selected with their launch partners over the coming months, but key port cities under consideration include Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and several Southeast Asian cities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems like only a couple of months since Boundary Layer announced its $5 million-ish round of financing, but the company hasn\u2019t been resting on its laurels. Today, its founders told me it signed up some beefy launch partners and is gearing up for a large-scale roll-out as early as 2025. The company is planning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}