Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp
The sound of silence
During a period with less traffic during Covid-19, whales quickly started to communicate like they did before marine industrialization. Dr. Michelle Fournet sized the unique /../
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Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp
How to design for less emissions
When Wallenius Marine and Knud E Hansen developed a ship design concept for Volkswagen, the Naval Architects took the degree of innovation to the next /../
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Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp
A Captain´s experience goes into the Oceanbird concept
“You have to re-think wind. It is not your enemy, it is your source of propulsion!” says Ulf Deutgen. He is contributing to the Oceanbird /../
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Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp
Why we claim a 90% reduction of emissions
It is a bold statement – that the Oceanbird concept could reduce 90% of the emissions compared to a conventional vessel. And we wouldn’t make /../
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Ship design & newbuilding, Ship management, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp
Wallenius will build and manage two vessels for Volkswagen Group Logistics
Innovative ship design will make it possible to transport 6,500 Volkswagen car equivalent units with significantly less emissions across the oceans, using technologies available today. /../
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Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp
Wallenius and Alfa Laval will join forces to make Oceanbird a reality
The Oceanbird concept started as a vision to achieve emission free shipping. Today we announce the intent to form a partnership that will make it /../
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Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp
Oceanbird can help save the whales
The oceans have become a loud place. Marine mammals depend on hearing for navigation, reproduction and finding food, and are having a hard time adapting /../
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Ship design & newbuilding Helena Gyllenskepp
Cleaner air in port cities with battery hybrids
Wallenius Marine are leading the building process of three vessels that run on multifuel and batteries, to UECC. The first battery hybrid is now in /../
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Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp
From drawing board to Oceanbird
The story of Oceanbird started over ten years ago with our road map to eliminate emissions from shipping, called the ZERO emission project. This timeline /../
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Ship design & newbuilding, Sustainability Helena Gyllenskepp
Meet Orcelle Wind – a RoRo vessel of the Oceanbird concept
Wallenius Wilhelmsen has announced that they intend to order a vessel of the Oceanbird concept. At a live webcast, commented by the Prime Minister of /../
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