This past year has been a good one for auxiliary wind propulsion as a growing number of charterers look to the technology as a means of cutting carbon across their supply chains. One of those charterers is Airbus, and its decision to include rotor sails on three new vessels it will charter from Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has brought Finnish rotor sail pioneer Norsepower Oy its largest order yet — and is, in fact, the largest order thus far placed in the mechanical sails market.
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Helsinki, Finland, headquartered Norsepower is hailing the decision by Oldendorff Carriers to fit a bulker chartered by Canadian mining giant Teck Resources with three Norsepower rotor sails. As we reported in December, the Teck rotor sail retrofit comes as the result of a decision by Teck and Oldendorff to make a joint investment in wind propulsion to further reduce CO2 emissions in Teck’s supply chain. The investment will see the vessel Dietrich Oldendorf, which carries shipments of Teck...
https://www.marinelog.com/technology/oldendorff-opts-for-norsepower-for-teck-rotor-sail-retrofit/
Under an agreement reached by rotor sail specialist Norsepower Oy and logistics specialist CLdN, two 35 meters tall by 5 meters diameter tilting rotor sails will be fitted on the 2018-built M/V Delphine by December this year.
At the time of contract signing, this will be the seventh vessel to be installed with Norsepower’s rotor sails and the third installation with the tilting function.
With a cargo capacity of close to 8,000 lane meters, the M/V Delphine operates between the U.K., Ireland and...
https://www.marinelog.com/technology/worlds-largest-short-sea-ro-ro-to-add-rotor-sails/