Sails propel bulk carrier into new league

Ship&Offshore | Issue GreenTech/2023

Sails propel bulk carrier into new league

October 2023 | Editor

A project undertaken jointly by Singapore-based Berge Bulk, Bar Technologies of the UK, and Norway’s Yara Marine Technologies, has broken new ground, with double-digit energy savings on the Berge Olympus , a Newcastlemax bulk carrier built in 2018. Following a two-sail installation on a trial vessel in a pilot project, the 210,000dwt Isle of Man-registered Berge Olympus has been retrofitted with four BARTech WindWings. James Marshall, Berge Bulk CEO, explains that wind power is now a key component in the company’s aptly named four-strand Marshall Plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025....

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