Ship design & newbuilding

3 November, 2020 Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp

Steady course through the waves

Powered by wind, it is important that the vessels of the Oceanbird concept will perform well at the windy sea. Watch when a five-metre /../

15 October, 2020 About us, Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp

First wing on deck

KTH have tested the seven meter Oceanbird model with one wing on deck, in open water. Their focus was on the wing structure and keeping the rest as simple as possible, preparing for the big test in November.

7 October, 2020 Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp

Let’s talk about the wings

Oceanbird is like no other cargo vessel. Mostly because of its 80 metres high wings, which gives the ship enough power to transport 7,000 cars across the ocean.

17 September, 2020 Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp

Introducing Oceanbird

Last week, Wallenius Marine revealed the new design for the wind powered ship Oceanbird. At a digital press conference, journalists got a pre-view of the /../

1 June, 2020 Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp

Watch the sea trial of Oceanbird model

The sun was shining over the eleven naval design students from KTH, when they put the Oceanbird model in water. This first sea trial /../

14 May, 2020 Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp

Testing the hull of Oceanbird

Computer simulations can take us quite far but not all the way. The team that are designing wind powered vessels, needed a boat in /../

29 April, 2020 Ship design & newbuilding, Technical management Helena Gyllenskepp

New insights from high level wind measurements

In designing wind-powered vessels, we need to understand how the wind behaves 200 meters above the surface. Therefore, the design team have installed advanced laser measurement, so called LIDAR, on an oceangoing ship.

16 April, 2020 Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp

Don’t let the empty office fool you

How do you keep a social distance in a project where partnerships and collaboration is key to success? Our head office in Stockholm may be /../

20 March, 2020 Ship design & newbuilding Helena Gyllenskepp

How COVID-19 effect Wallenius Marine

The situation regarding COVID-19 is serious but under control, according to Johan Mattsson, CEO at Wallenius Marine. “The safety of our crew and office employees /../

19 February, 2020 Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability, Uncategorized Helena Gyllenskepp

Ice test of the world’s largest LNG RoRo

There are a lot of challenges in designing the world’s first mega RoRo with ice class 1A Super and multi-fuel engines to WALLENIUS SOL. /../