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Newsletter - June 2020
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Norsepower Rotor Sail installation completed on Scandlines ferry in just hours
26 May 202026 May 2020
Large 30m tall Rotor Sail, fitted in the port of Rostock overnight, will reduce emissions by an estimated 4-5 percent.
Scandlines, a market leader in green ferry operation, and Nors…
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Transportation of the rotor sail for the Scandlines hybrid ferry “Copenhagen”
24 April 2020The still unassembled rotor sail for the Scandlines hybrid ferry “Copenhagen”, which operates between Rostock (Germany) and Gedser (Denmark), experienced its first journey on the Baltic Sea during th…
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Come along on a wind-assist ride aboard Van Dam Shipping's MV Ankie and the newly installed ventifoil system from eConowind
24 April 2020The 3,600 DWT general cargo vessel MV Ankie, made its first voyage with the two wings installed, sailing for Wagenborg from Delfzijl to Hamburg, onwards to Norway and back to Rotterdam. With this aux…
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Boomsma Shipping eSigns contract with Econowind for latest VentiFoil Installation
01 April 2020Sneek, The Netherlands. 27 March 2020
Even with the restrictions and challenges that face the shipping industry with the Corona virus pandemic and the latest low oil prices, wind assisted propuls…
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Key wind-assist propulsion installation starts North Sea operations
26 March 2020Spijk, The Netherlands, 17 February 2020
During the docking of the MV Ankie of Jan van Dam Shipping in January 2020 at the Royal Niestern Sander shipyard, the first retrofit eConowind Ventifoil wi…
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EU-backed Wind-Assist Ship Propulsion Project Sets Sail on its Three-Year Voyage
04 November 2019Rotterdam, 31 October 2019
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 o…
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