January 12, 2023: Morrow Batteries signed a logistics providers settlement with Rhenus Norway for the supply of manufacturing tools for the Norwegian battery cell manufacturing unit, marking the place to begin of Morrow’s operations via deep water port of Eydehavn in Arendal, the corporate introduced on January 11.
Lars Christian Bacher, who took over as CEO of Morrow on December 1. mentioned the settlement consists of the development of a brand new logistics hub.
“We’ve got partnered with an revolutionary and versatile agent. Rhenus Norway has developed an answer that mixes ocean freight, built-in administration of European areas and last-mile providers in Arendal, tailor-made for on this very troublesome logistics undertaking,” mentioned Bacher.
Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre laid the muse for the battery cells on the Morrow Battery gigafactory on the nation’s southern coast in a ceremony in September.
Støre mentioned Battery Manufacturing unit 1, which is being inbuilt Arendal, is essential to his authorities’s efforts to make Norway an “enticing host nation for sustainable and worthwhile exercise all through the battery worth chain” .
Morrow has partnered with Siva – the Industrial Improvement Company of Norway – to determine a three way partnership to construct a 30,000m2 plant in 4 phases with the development firm Veidekke, at a value of NOK400 million ($38 million).
