Maersk Tankers, the energy shipping division of Danish cargo giant Moller Maersk, is to fit two, 30 meter rotating sails to one of its vessels. Finnish company Norsepower said its modernized version ...
The next time you see a hulking cargo ship plying the ocean, you could be looking at a sailboat. The shipping industry has begun to experiment with rotating towers that can be installed on ships to ...
The rotating-sail ship was developed by Anton Flettner, a German engineer at the University of Gottingen in 1922. He had been carrying out experiments to determine how much greater the force exerted ...
Vale expects to receive in coming weeks its first-ever mineral transport ship propelled in part by sails, the company said on Thursday. The ship, a VLOC, or very-large ore carrier, will also be the ...
Marine fuel prices are soaring and the shipping industry is looking for ways to harness ocean winds to power oceangoing vessels. Danish giant Maersk Tankers said Thursday it has installed ...
The latest effort by Denmark’s Maersk Tankers uses rotating cylinders about 30m high that can function as hi-tech sails. The company, a unit of AP Moeller Maersk, said it would begin testing on one of ...
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a challenge each transportation sector is working to solve in various ways, and the marine shipping industry is no exception. Greenhouse gas emissions released by ...
Invented a century ago, rotating columns fixed to ship’s deck interact with wind to provide forward thrust and could make 10% fuel saving An ocean-going tanker is to be fitted with a type of “spinning ...
The Chinese company specialized in the development, design and production of composite materials products Lianyungang Zhongfu Lianzhong Composite Materials Group Co., Ltd. (Zhongfu Lianzhong), a ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results