Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 02/2023
Norsepower sails for MR tanker
Alcyone | French tanker owner and RoRo operator, Socatra, has signed a contract for Norsepower Rotor SailTM installations on board its 50,000dwt medium-range (MR) product tanker, Alcyone . The 2022-built tanker, on charter to TotalEnergies, is to have two 35m x 5m rotor sails supplied by Norsepower’s new production facility in China. The retrofit was due to take place during the final quarter of 2022 or the first quarter of 2023, the company said. Fuel and emission savings of 8% are likely, on average, as the ship sails between South Korea and French Polynesia....