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Adding to a growing track record of independent industry validations, rotor sail specialist Anemoi Marine Technologies Ltd reports that it has been awarded design assessment certificates from classification society Bureau Veritas (BV)
Singapore-headquartered Berge Bulk has adopted San Francisco based Sofar Ocean’s Wayfinder voyage optimization platform across its fleet of owned vessels, including new vessels equipped with wind propulsion technology. Berge Bulk uses Wayfinder’s
In the latest example of how leading charterers are pushing shipping decarbonization forward, Brazilian mining giant Vale S.A. is to install five rotor sails from London-headquartered Anemoi Marine Technologies Ltd onboard the
Thordon Bearings is supplying its grease-free, self-lubricating ThorPlas-Blue bearing material to a novel containerized wind propulsion system designed to reduce fuel consumption and fossil fuel emissions across all commercial ship types. The rigid
Airseas, the French tech pioneer founded by former Airbus engineers, has won orders for three more of its Seawings systems from Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (“K” Line). This will bring to five the
Rotor sails, tilting rotors, hard sails: There are a lot of wind-assisted propulsion solutions out there. French shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique thinks that Solid Sail, developed in its long running Ecorizon R&D
A coal carrier serving Japan’s Tohoku Electric Power Co. is to be fitted with a hard sail system jointly developed by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. (MOL) and the Oshima Shipbuilding Co. under
Aiming to take the Oceanbird wind power solution to commercial reality, Alfa Laval and Wallenius have finalized their previously announced joint venture on the wing sail project for wind propulsion. On November
Agribusiness giant Cargill, one of the world’s top charterers of ships, is continuing to put its considerable weight behind efforts to decarbonize shipping. In its latest move in this direction it has
MAY 19, 2016—Dagmar Nelissen, senior researcher and consultant at CE Delft, will present the preliminary findings of an EU-funded study “Analysis of market potentials and market barriers for wind propulsion technologies for
