Maersk Tankers has placed an order for bound4Blue’s wind assisted propulsion system (WAPS) to power its five vessels. The agreement marks bound4blue's largest WAPS deal to date, involving the ...

Sailing to 2050 On the road to 2050, wind propulsion offers a tangible, immediate solution that is helping put the wind behind the sails of the industry’s decarbonisation goals.

In the Discovery Lab Workshop educator Caitlin Gibbons takes News On 6's Alyssa Miller step-by-step through how to make a ...

Traditionally, sails (still in use today on some boats) are made of fabric or other materials and are meant to catch wind over their surfaces, thus moving the vessels they're attached to in this ...

Well over a century after the Age of Sail gave way to coal- and oil-burning ships, climate change concerns are prompting a new look at an old technology that could once again harness wind to ...

Ocean transport giants such as Maersk and Cargill have a new take on a very old idea that might help big boats reduce their carbon footprints.

Erik Grundt, analyst, Rystad Energy In 2018, Maersk — then, the world’s largest container shipping group — installed two 30-metre-high rotor sails on a tanker ship: the Maersk Pelican.

The sails installed so far were 72 feet (22 meters) tall, but a new record in this respect was set this week, when bound4blue announced it finished installing the world's largest suction sails.

Wind-powered ships could help the International Maritime Organization (IMO) meet its ambitious goal of slashing carbon-dioxide emissions from ships by 70% by 2050 compared to 2008 levels. Maersk – the ...