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MOL and Vale to install Norsepower rotor sails on bulker

Photo: `MOL/Vale At the meeting for this agreement: VALE, Head of Shipping, Guilherme Brega (right) and MOL, Senior Managing Executive Officer, Toshinobu Shinoda
At the meeting for this agreement: VALE, Head of Shipping, Guilherme Brega (right) and MOL, Senior Managing Executive Officer, Toshinobu Shinoda
Shipowner Mitsui OSK Line (MOL) and miner Vale are to retrofit rotor sails onto a capesize bulker.

The two companies have announced a partnership to install rotor sails to a 200,000 tonne bulk carrier employed on a mid-term transportation contract with Vale. The vessel will be fitted with two 35 m x 5 m rotor sails produced by Norsepower.

Norsepower’s rotor sails are expected to result in 6 – 10% fuel and GHG emissions savings for the vessel, combined with optimisation technology.

The installation of the rotor sails is expected in the first half of 2024.

Norsepower CEO Tuomas Riski took part in a Seatrade Maritime News webinar on Sustainable Finance, Shipping and Technology Webinar last November and you can view the webinar below.

 

TAGS: Dry Bulk Asia Americas

 

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