In a research partnership with NAPA, Norsepower has been able to demonstrate the combined benefits of using the Norsepower Rotor Sail™ solution and NAPA’s Voyage Optimization together. The research also showed that for voyages with lower potential windpower to harness, the use of voyage optimisation more than doubled the benefits of using the technology in isolation...
In a written editorial for Ship Management International, Tuomas Riski, Norsepower CEO, highlighted how enabling ship operators to work smarter and more sustainably requires a full 360-degree view of innovation and efficiency. “The clean technology market has often been characterised by investments in a single technology with the value of the technology being largely based on...
The recent years have increased the demand for reducing the environmental footprint of shipping. This applies both to ship’s technical aspects, it’s overall energy efficiency but also operational aspects, how the ship’s full potential is used the most effectively. These developments, together with increasing fuel prices have created new interest in use of wind propulsion...
Helsinki, Finland – 18th August 2022: Norsepower Oy Ltd., the leading global provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, today announced a contract with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co. Ltd. for delivery of single Rotor Sails onboard two newbuild liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered, wind-assisted CO₂ carriers commissioned by the Northern Lights JV. Northern Lights JV is developing the...
New senior hire reflects the maritime industry’s growing interest in Norsepower’s wind propulsion technology to help improve environmental performance Helsinki, Finland – 15th of August 2022: Norsepower Oy Ltd., the leading global provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, today announced the appointment of Mr Jufo Peltomaa as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). He brings decades of international...
Helsinki, Finland – Wednesday, 10th August 2022: BHP has partnered with Pan Pacific Copper (PPC), a member of JX Nippon Mining & Metals group, and Norsepower, the leading global provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from maritime transportation between BHP’s mines in Chile and PPC’s smelters in Japan. The parties are...
Norsepower jointly organised a webinar with RINA on ‘Accelerating Sustainable Shipping with Rotor Sails’ to discuss the need to reduce emissions across the industry, and the role that wind propulsion technology can play in this transition. Joining Norsepower’s CEO, Tuomas Riski, were RINA Singapore’s Head of Decarbonisation, Energy Transition and Innovation, Jan-Paul De Wilde, RINA...
Nefco, the Nordic Green Bank, has signed a loan agreement with Norsepower Oy Ltd which will accelerate Rotor Sail production within Asia. As the world-leading provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, Norsepower’s Rotor Sail technology provides efficient, easy-to-use and reliable auxiliary wind propulsion for the shipping industry with installations already onboard tankers, bulkers, RoRo ships...
Norsepower is supporting Scandlines with its goal of becoming emission-free by 2040, setting higher targets than the Paris Agreement, with the installation of a 30m high Rotor Sail on the Scandlines hybrid ferry, M/V Berlin. Norsepower has completed the second installation for Scandlines onboard the M/V Berlin in just a few hours, following the successful...
A new agreement between clean tech and maritime software leaders will use voyage optimisation tools to help wind-assisted vessels in their voyage planning to boost fuel savings and emissions reductions. Norsepower Oy Ltd has signed a formal agreement with NAPA, the global maritime software, services and data analysis expert, to offer weather routing software in...