Aurelia Green Ship Concept Design together with Aloft Shipping and Nepa Group introduces the Wind Propulsion Container Vessel.
Since steel price and delivery became a huge challenge for the whole newbuild maritime industry, Aurelia has focused on retrofit solutions studying the potential of existing vessels and converting them for low emission sailing. Aurelia believe that retrofitting is one of the most impactful solutions to quickly reduce CO2 emissions in the maritime business. Together with Aloft Shipping and Nepa Group Aurelia has introduced the Wind Propulsion Container Vessel.
It consists of retrofitting the design of an old container vessel to be primarily wind-driven.
* The vessel is optimised to minimise CO2 emissions and uses hybrid electric/diesel propulsion when in port or when there is not enough wind to sail.
* The innovative integration of sails into the design of the container ship reduces the vessel's footprint and ensures good integration with container operations. On the North Atlantic route, the CO2 emissions compared to similar sized fuel-powered vessels is reduced 8 times.
* The vessel sails 86% of the time, consuming about 50% less fuel than before retrofitting.