Welcome to the project website of WASP: Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion, funded by the Interreg North Sea Region Programme.

The WASP (Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion) project, funded by the Interreg North Sea Europe programme, part of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to the tune of €5.4 million.

The project brings together universities, wind-assist technology providers with ship owners to research, trial and validate the operational performance of a selection of wind propulsion solutions on five vessels thus enabling wind propulsion technology market penetration and contributing to a greener North Sea transport system through harvesting the regions abundant wind potential.

This fully aligns with the wider programmes’ objective of promoting the development and adoption of products, services and processes to accelerate the greening of the North Sea Region.          

The WASP project has the following objectives: 

  • Wind Propulsion Technology proven concepts lead to greening of NSR sea transport
  • Identify the viable business cases for (hybrid) wind propulsion technologies
  • Facilitate a level playing field for WPT with policy instruments

The following project results are envisaged: 

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Latest Project News

WASP Final Conference

08 February 2023

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The maritime industry is at a crossroads, with increasing pressure to reduce its carbon footprint and become more sustainable. To address the…

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Data and sustainable navigation conference

16 January 2023

Data and sustainable navigation conference

25 and 26th May, 2023

EM business school, Le Havre, Normandie, France

 

The maritime indus…

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International Academic Conference on shipping sustainability solutions

08 December 2022

1-3 March 2023: International Academic Conference on Shipping, Sustainability & Solutions

Kühne Logistics University (KLU), Hamburg, Germany…

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SMM WASP conference

01 September 2022

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our WASP conference at SMM 2022 in Hamburg on Wednesday, 07 September.
There is a great line up of sp…

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Helping an industry to set sail

13 July 2022

PRESS RELEASE Gothenburg 7th July 2022

In response to rapidly growing demand, SSPA expands its services in maritime wind propulsion and introduces …

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