Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry to offer Anemoi rotor sailsCosco Shipping Heavy Industry to offer Anemoi rotor sails

The deal will allow Cosco HI’s customers to install Anemoi’s rotor sails on new build vessels or during dry dock. With nine yards and a total capacity of 7.5m dwt per year, Cosco HI’s addition of a turnkey wind propulsion offering could prove significant for the market.

Anemoi is already present in China, with over 170 staff at its production facility in Jiangsu Province. Production continues to expand to meet rising demand.

There are a range of technologies in the wind propulsion market. Anemoi and Cosco HI will offer rotor sails or Flettner rotors, large tube structures which are rotated to generate propulsion using the wind. Emissions savings from such sails run from 5%-30%, the companies said.

Nick Contopoulos, COO of Anemoi Marine Technologies, said: “We are proud to have secured the commitment of a top Chinese yard group. Cosco HI shares our long-term vision of the role that wind assisted technology can provide in delivering carbon reduction today. We are looking forward to a highly successful co-operation in the years to come and we are currently lining up the first installation opportunities with Cosco HI."

Guo ZhiQiang, Assistant general manager at CHQ of CHI said:

“Our pool of 3,000 professional designers and 10,000 highly qualified technicians allows us to integrate the latest and most advanced solutions into the ships we build as well as retrofit in dry dock. We are delighted to be working with Anemoi Marine Technologies and have been impressed by their solution which can be combined with a range of other fuel saving measures.”

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