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Norwegian shortsea operator Hagland Shipping has taken a battery-hybrid mini-bulker on a multiyear charter from Germany’s Reederei Gerdes and commercial platform over-C. The 2026-built Forty-Two G is a 3,800 dwt Damen Combi Freighter 3850 constructed at Ba Son Shipyard in Vietnam. Financial terms and the precise charter period were not disclosed. The vessel combines battery-hybrid …