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The ship was built by the PIRIOU shipyard in Concarneau, France and outfitted in Giurgiu, Romania, [4] as the first of the company's own Phoenix class of sailing cargo ships. Beginning its maiden cargo voyage across the Atlantic in August 2024, the 81-meter (266 ft)-long ship was touted by the media as the world’s largest wind-powered cargo ship.
An auxiliary engine will be used to navigate harbors and provide emergency power. [ 7 ] While the design is meant to be usable for different types of ships and even retrofitted to existing vessels, [ 7 ] the first vessel from the Oceanbird concept is planned to be a 200 m (660 ft) long roll-on/roll-off ship with a capacity of up to 7,000 cars.
At the time she was built, she was the heaviest self-propelled ship of any kind. With a laden draft of 24.6 m (81 ft) and a length of 458.45 m (1,504.10 ft), she was incapable of navigating the English Channel, [5] the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal. Overall, she is generally considered the largest self-propelled ship ever built.
Tailor-made. Shipping accounts for around 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and moves about 90% of the world’s goods. Earlier this year, the International Maritime Organization — the UN ...
A Cargill-chartered cargo ship fitted with giant, steel sails has set out on its maiden voyage. Wind-powered cargo ship sets sail in a move to make shipping greener Skip to main content
Oceanbird is a wind-powered cargo ship concept, expected to cut emissions by 90%. The ship uses 80-meter-tall rigs instead of traditional sails and can cross the Atlantic Ocean in twelve days. The ...
A windmill ship, wind energy conversion system ship or wind energy harvester ship propels itself by use of a wind turbine to drive a propeller. They use wind power [1] through a mechanical or electrical transmission to the propeller. Where transmission is electric, storage batteries may also be used to allow power generated at one time to be ...
SkySails' kite propulsion from upper wind power is a traction use of high altitude wind power. Up to 100 million tons of carbon emissions every year could be saved by widespread use of SkySails technology, according to the International Maritime Organization .