For more than a century, commercial shipping steadily moved away from sails. Now they are coming back. Across the global ...

Interest continues to grow in the potential of different forms of sails to provide wind propulsion assistance for large commercial vessels. In the latest development, the Singapore-based shipping ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Klaveness Combination Carriers ASA (KCC), a Norwegian shipowner, has announced that the newest addition to its fleet will sport ...

A Spanish sailmaker has just completed the installation of the largest suction sail ever fitted to a working cargo vessel as part of a wider push to cut fuel use and emissions in commercial shipping.

Japan’s NYK Group through its NYK Bulkship operator has deployed its first suction sails as it begins to test wind-assisted propulsion. The group joins an expanding number of ships and shipowners ...

Lloyd’s Register (LR) has completed an independent verification of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis for SunRui ’s ...

Maersk Tankers is taking a pioneering step in maritime sustainability by deploying the eSAIL® suction sail technology on five MR vessels in 2025 and 2026. Designed by bound4blue, the automated ...

Wind has been powering humanity's seafaring ships since times immemorial. As technology progressed, the sails used to harness the power of the wind has been replaced in most ships by engines of ...

Maersk has signed a deal to install the first wind sail on a container ship as the maritime industry returns to an age-old technology to cut fuel consumption and comply with tougher environmental ...

Odfjell announced it will install bound4blue's eSAIL wind-assisted propulsion technology system on a chemical tanker, making it the first tanker vessel in the world to harness this groundbreaking ...

Spanish wind propulsion system supplier bound4blue has installed ‘world’s largest’ suction sails onboard the juice carrier MV Atlantic Orchard, chartered by Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) and owned by ...

Airbus is to fit one of its transport vessels with three vertical rigid sails for wind propulsion, which include features to improve airflow adherence. The sails will be installed on the Ville de ...