Ship&Offshore | Issue 02/2024
Louis Dreyfus chooses Deltamarin
RoRo design | Louis Dreyfus Armateurs is collaborating with ship design firm, Deltamarin, and Chinese shipbuilder, Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group Co. Ltd., in developing a specification for three eco-friendly RoRo vessels. The ships are being built to ship Airbus aeroplane components across the Atlantic from production facilities in Europe to the United States. The ships will have six Flettner rotor wind sails and two dual-fuel engines operating on green methanol or marine diesel. They are expected to reduce average annual transatlantic CO2 emissions from 68,000 to 33,000 tonnes by the end of the decade, the company said...