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Ship&Offshore | Issue 02/2011

Automation is key to cargo ship’s hybrid propulsion system

February 2011 | Sönke Ingwersen, Rudolf Kruse, Carsten Schmidt

E-SHIP Ordered by German wind-turbine manufacturer Enercon in 2006, E-Ship 1 sets new standards of efficiency, environmental friendliness and sustainability with supplemental wind thrust from rotors using the Magnus effect. Intelligent automation plays a key role in the many innovative technologies on the hybrid propulsion cargo vessel.