(Yicai Global) May 8 -- Contemporary Amperex Technology, China’s largest power battery maker and better known as CATL, has installed its maritime power system on another public service vessel.

The Fujian province-based firm fitted the system on rescue boat Shenhai-01, news site The Paper reported. The boat is used for monitoring, emergency response and rescue in areas where there is a possibility of offshore leaks of liquefied natural gas and other hazardous chemicals.

This marks CATL’s first installation of the lithium batteries on a hybrid boat after using lithium-iron-phosphate batteries to power an all-electric drainage ship in the Yangtze River in June. The company also agreed in December to use the batteries on ships and in research with the American Bureau of Shipping.

Each of the battery cores in the maritime power cells contain temperature sensors for monitoring and to alert of the possibility of overheating in order to deal with the complexities of water-based travel, the report added.

Founded in 2011, CATL’s power cells had an installed capacity of 31.7 gigawatt-hours last year, making up about half of its overall installed capacity at the time, according to figures from the Power Battery Application Branch under the China Industrial Association of Power Resources.

Editor: James Boynton