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 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 ...

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 ...