Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 02/2024
UK’s Anemoi awarded rotor sail development grant
London-based Anemoi Marine Technologies has won a GBP 1.2 million grant from the UK’s Department of Transport to support the GBP 1.9 million development of a new 3.5m-diameter, 24.5m-high rotor sail design suitable for medium-sized vessels. The sail developer has already broken into the market for larger ships, with sail heights of 24m, 30m and 35m. During the second quarter of this year, rotor sails will be installed on the very large ore carrier, Sohar Max , owned by Oman’s Asyad Shipping and chartered to Brazilian mining giant, Vale....