A maritime design specialist spun out of Sir Ben Ainslie’s yacht racing team will install solid
45-metre sails on cargo vessels with the aim of cutting emissions.
Bar Technologies expects to have its Wind Wings on the water by 2022 as part of a new venture with Cargill, the American agribusiness group, and Deltamarin, the naval architect.
The project aims to utilise cutting-edge wind propulsion technology to bring down the vast carbon emissions of commercial shipping, Were it a country, the international shipping industry would be the world’s sixth largest generator of carbon dioxide emissions, ahead of Germany. The cost of decarbonising the sector is put at $1.4 trillion to $1.9 trillion.
Wind Wings, which is in the design phase, will be erected on board
