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Norwegian firm Yara and maritime technology company Kongsberg Gruppe are building the world’s first fully electric, self-driving boat, which they said will replace thousands of truck journeys required to haul fertilizer to ports in Norway.

The ship will be “100% electric” with zero emissions, the company announced in a statement on Wednesday. Operations on the ship, named the Yara Birkeland, are expected to begin in the second half of 2018.

Yara ships fertilizer products from its production plant in Porsgrunn, Norway to the cities Brevik and Larvik. They say the self-driving ship will cut emissions by replacing 40,000 diesel truck journeys per year.

“The new zero-emission vessel will be a game-changer for global maritime transport contributing to meet the UN sustainability goals,” the company said in a statement.

Brevik and Larvik are 14 and 26 kilometres away from Porsgrunn, respectively, according to Google Maps.

Yara isn’t the first company to invest in self-driving vehicles. New York State is moving ahead with plans to allow testing of self-driving cars on public roads, and companies such as Uber, Apple, Tesla, Ford and Waymo, a branch of Alphabet Inc., are developing self-driving car technology.

Amazon, meanwhile, is developing Prime Air, a service that will deliver packages to customers using unmanned drones.

Yara expects the self-driving container ship to start as a manned vessel in 2018 before it becomes remotely operated in 2019 and fully autonomous by 2020. It is named after Kristian Birkeland, the company’s founder.