
In shipping’s modern age, harnessing wind power is as much about adopting solutions like weather routing and voyage optimisation as it is about the physical wind-assisted propulsion system (WAPS) itself.

The Netherlands-headquartered Van Oord has taken a step seen as a milestone in its decarbonization efforts with the first delivery of biofuel for its 2011-built flexible fallpipe vessel. The biofuel delivered for the Stornes flexible fallpipe vessel in Norway is a B30 blend, consisting of 30% hydrot