U.K.-based wind propulsion GT Wings has been awarded an additional £1 million in government supported funding to further develop its AirWing. Unlike conventional wind propulsion devices, AirWing is a jet sail. It
BAR Technologies has received an order that will see its WindWings wind-assisted propulsion system (WAPS) installed on two new LR2 dual-fuel tankers, marking one of the first confirmed large-scale wind propulsion deployments
Delivered to U.K. based Union Maritime in January by Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, the 114,000 dwt, Marshall Islands flagged Brands Hatch is the world’s first sail-assisted Aframax tanker. It is estimated that its
When we last reported on Odfjell’s chemical tanker Bow Olympus, the five-year old vessel had departed the EDR Antwerp Shipyard in Belgium, headed for Houston after being fitted with four 22-meter bound4blue
Spanish-headquartered wind-assisted propulsion system innovator bound4blue reports that the world’s largest suction sails have now been installed on the Louis Dreyfus Company-chartered juice tanker M/V Atlantic Orchard. The four 26-meter high eSAILs
Making a pair of green newbuilds even greener, Sweden’s Stena Line is to add Norsepower rotor sails to the two methanol-hybrid NewMax RO/ROs it is building for its Belfast-Heysham Irish Sea freight
Liverpool, U.K.-based GT Wings reports that the first of its AirWing wind-assisted propulsion systems (WAPS) has been installed aboard Carisbrooke Shipping’s M/V Vectis Progress. The vessel has now departed from Hull, U.K.,
Turkish shipbuilder RMK Marine has now launched Neoline Origin, the primarily-wind powered RO/RO ordered at the shipyard by Nantes, France, based Neoline in January 2023 (see earlier story). The 136 meter long
Anemoi Marine Technologies has completed the installation of five of its rotor sails on the 400,000 dwt very large ore carrier (VLOC) Sohar Max. Built in 2012 at China’s Rongsheng shipyard, the
Rotor sail specialist Anemoi Marine Technologies has named Clare Urmston as its new chief executive officer (CEO). After holding a number of executive and non-executive positions within the manufacturing, healthcare and consumer
