Sustainability

1 June, 2020 Ship design & newbulding, Sustainability Wallenius Marine

Watch the sea trial of wPCC model

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

14 May, 2020 Ship design & newbulding, Sustainability Wallenius Marine

Testing the hull of wPCC

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

16 April, 2020 Ship design & newbulding, Sustainability Wallenius Marine

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 /../

19 February, 2020 Ship design & newbulding, Sustainability, Uncategorized Wallenius Marine

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. /../

22 October, 2019 Ship design & newbulding, Sustainability Carl Fagergren, Naval Architect at Wallenius Marine

Diversity is key to lower emissions from shipping

How can we lower emissions from shipping? According to Naval Architect Carl Fagergren, we can’t look for just one answer. Many eyes are turned to /../

7 October, 2019 Ship design & newbulding, Sustainability Wallenius Marine

Young minds gave wPCC a flying start

This summer, three naval architecture students from KTH was given the task to explore alternative wing designs for wind-powered vessels. “A dream job” says Filip Wängelin, who will continue to work in the project.

23 May, 2019 Ship design & newbulding, Sustainability Wallenius Marine

Why does the government invest in sailing vessels?

The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) have invested about 27 million Swedish crowns for the development of the concept wind-powered car carrier, also known as wPCC. Chief Strategist Rein Jüriado tell us why they did that.

24 April, 2019 Ship design & newbulding, Sustainability Wallenius Marine

Three quick questions to Carl-Johan Söder, Design Manager Wallenius Marine

The vision of sailing emission-free vessels has been embraced by the whole Swedish shipping industry, as well as the rest of the world. We asked /../