In September 2021, Norsepower CEO, Tuomas Riski travelled to the Port of Rotterdam to take a trip onboard Sea-Cargo AS’s SC Connector. Since the retrofit installation of our Rotor Sails, the SC Connector is now Norway’s largest sailing vessel. The sails are 35 metres tall and 5 metres wide cylinders. The vessel’s total air draft...
During Norsepower’s latest webinar, panellists explored potential market consolidation during the journey to net zero and the subsequent commercial and regulatory drivers impacting decision making for developing resilient fleets. With the prospect of regional regulation and rising commercially driven forces, shipping faces an unprecedented challenge to decarbonise that will require the sector to invest in...
Norsepower has joined the Call to Action for Shipping Decarbonization, to urge world leaders to align shipping with the Paris Agreement temperature goal. The private sector is already taking important steps to decarbonise global value chains, making this a growing commercial. Now governments must deliver the policies that will supercharge the transition and make zero emission...
Shipping faces an unprecedented challenge to decarbonise that will require the sector to invest in new initiatives driven by new push and pull effects. Norsepower is hosting an informal panel discussion to help progress industry thinking around decarbonisation, particularly the use of wind propulsion and it’s quantifiable benefits to achieve these goals. The IMO’s incoming...
There is no doubt that across the industry a significant proportion of the existing global shipping fleet will need to modernise to meet decarbonisation targets. DNV GL estimates that up to 80% of the global trading fleet will have to make technical upgrades to meet the incoming minimum energy efficiency standards within the International Maritime...
Two weeks ago, the shipping industry was poised to respond to the outcomes of the 76th International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting. For many, interest focused on the introduction of the short-term technical requirements to reduce carbon intensity, based on the new Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and the operational...
The Motorship recently hosted a virtual panel of top industry experts, discussing wind power and wind-assisted propulsion for the shipping sector. Norsepower COO, Jarkko Väinämö shared how the Rotor Sail Solution can help shipping meet its decarbonisation objectives both for newbuilds and retrofit solutions and provided insight into current projects. Gavin Allwright, Secretary General, International...
Digital solution provides shipowners with access to instant quotes and availability information for Norsepower’s Rotor Sail installation. Norsepower has partnered with Newport Shipping to become the exclusive wind propulsion provider within its online portal that aims to ease the complexities of planning retrofit works. The platform provides access to a full set of bespoke technology...
HELSINKI – 13th May 2021: Norsepower Oy Ltd., the leading global provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, today announced the installation of five tilting Rotor Sails on board a new-build Very Large Ore Carrier (VLOC) chartered by Vale, the Brazilian mining company. The first installation of Norsepower’s innovative Rotor Sails on a bulk carrier demonstrates the...
In January 2021, Norsepower installed two 35x5m Rotor Sails for SEA-CARGO, a leading logistics provider in the North Sea market onboard the roro vessel, SC Connector. This was the world’s first installation of tiltable Rotor Sails, demonstrating that vessels that have to negotiate height restricted routes can benefit from this fuel and emissions-saving solution. Three months on,...