In 1926 a cargo ship called the Buckau crossed the Atlantic sporting what looked like two tall smokestacks. But these towering cylinders were actually drawing power from the wind. Called Flettner ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 13 (Reuters) - Brazilian miner 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 ...

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 ...

Airbus will charter three new-generation green cargo ships for aircraft component transportation. The Chinese shipyard commissioned to build them completed the steel-cutting ceremony for the first one ...

For the first time in nearly a century, a ship is about to be fitted with a set of “spinning sails” that harness the wind to help power it across the ocean—a technology that could significantly green ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...