Tag: sail
Chemical Challenger sets sail as first ship with Green Award’s GHG Label for innovative wind technology use
Green Award Foundation proudly announces that the Chemical Challenger, a chemical tanker operated by Chemship, has become the first vessel to receive the prestigious Green Award GHG Label for CO2 reduction through the use of innovative wind technology. The 16,000-ton chemical tanker, managed by Fleet Management Limited in Hong Kong, recently underwent a groundbreaking retrofit,…
The first Norsepower Rotor Sail™ funded by German Government to be fitted on Baltrader’s new cement carrier
Baltrader Capital GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, and Norsepower, the leading global provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, have signed a contract concerning the delivery of one 24m x 4m sized Norsepower Rotor Sail™ in summer 2024. The product will be fitted on the newest cement carrier of the Baltrader fleet, M/V CEMCOMMANDER. It is…
Anemoi awarded grant from Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition to test and develop its 3.5m Rotor Sail design
Anemoi Marine Technologies (Anemoi) has been awarded a grant from the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CMDC) Round 4. The CMDC Round 4 is part of a suite of interventions launched by the UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions (UK SHORE). The aim of this competition is to fund real world demonstrations, trials and feasibility studies…
Victoria Steamship Co. to support the development of a new Rotor Sail design as part of a winning Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition project
Victoria Steamship Company Ltd. is set to support Anemoi Marine Technologies Ltd. (Anemoi) with the development and testing of a new 3.5 m diameter x 24.5 m high Rotor Sail after Anemoi was awarded a grant from the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CMDC). As a key project partner, Victoria Steamship will assist by providing vital…
Decarbonization of shipping: An ambitious global test bed for green ships sets sail
With 90% of traded goods being transported across the ocean, the shipping industry stands at the heart of the global economy. Although shipping is highly efficient in terms of CO2 emissions per cargo weight, the industry as a whole is a major contributor to the world’s carbon footprint, accounting for 3% of global greenhouse gas…
Dealfeng® Rotor Sail installation completed on oil tanker
Following a partnership between Dealfeng New Energy Technology and Haiyue in October 2022, the installation of a one set of 4m x 16m Dealfeng Rotor Sails on a 5,000-ton class product oil tanker has been completed. The vessel will be delivered in early 2024. The delivery of the rotor sails took three months following the…
LNG bunker vessel, Alice Cosulich sets sail for Europe from Qidong, China
LNG bunker vessel, Alice Cosulich has set sail for Europe from Qidong, China. The Fratelli Cosulich-owned, 8,200Cbm capacity vessel is on a long-term time charter agreement to Titan, the independent supplier of clean fuels. Alice Cosulich will be operational in Europe from early December 2023 and will be immediately busy facilitating supply. The bunkering vessel…
Conversion to Ammonia Fuel Begins for Pioneering Tugboat Commencing modification to sail the world’s first ammonia-fueled vessel
NYK has commenced conversion of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueled tugboat Sakigake to an ammonia-fueled tugboat (hereinafter “A-tug”) at the Oppama factory of Keihin Dock Co. Ltd. to achieve further reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Sakigake is operated in Tokyo Bay by the NYK Group’s Shin-Nihon Kaiyosha. This modification involves the development of…
Norsepower, IINO Lines, and Mizuho Leasing combine to launch groundbreaking rotor sail leasing initiative
Norsepower Oy Ltd., the leading global provider of mechanical sails for large ships, IINO Kaiun Kaisha, Ltd. (IINO Lines), and Mizuho Leasing Company, Limited (Mizuho Leasing) have jointly and exclusively signed a co-operation agreement to launch a ground-breaking mechanical sail leasing initiative for the Norsepower Rotor Sail™. This aims to increase shipping companies’ access to…
Anemoi signs deal with Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group to develop Rotor Sail designs for LNG carriers
Anemoi Marine Technologies has entered into a Joint Design Cooperation Agreement with Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group for the design of Rotor Sails onboard two LNG carrier newbuildings. The deal was signed on 26 October between Nick Contopoulos, Chief Operating Officer of Anemoi, and Wang Jiaying, Director of Research and Design Department from Hudong-Zhonghua, at DongHua Technology…
