Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2024
Partners unveil wind-optimised tanker
Aquilo | Finland-based ship design firm, Deltamarin, and BAR Technologies of the UK have announced a wind-optimised Aframax/LR2 tanker design, named Aquilo. The new design combines efficiency gains relating to hull form and the wind sail company’s WindWings® technology, together with a new superstructure configuration. It ensures aerodynamic optimisation through the positioning of four WindWings and the AeroBridge®, described as ‘a novel aerodynamically superior deckhouse design’. The partners claim that the setup will potentially yield ‘a remarkable improvement in fuel efficiency’...