{"id":11487,"date":"2020-11-04T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T06:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11487"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:18","slug":"the-worlds-largest-wind-powered-vessel-emits-90-less-co2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/11\/04\/the-worlds-largest-wind-powered-vessel-emits-90-less-co2\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Largest Wind-Powered Vessel Emits 90% Less CO2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sweden-based shipping company&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.walleniusmarine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wallenius Marine<\/a>&nbsp;is building a massive ship, called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oceanbirdwallenius.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oceanbird<\/a>, which could transport 7K trucks and cars across the Atlantic Ocean propelled only by the wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Oceanbird would have five 80-meter-tall sails that would allegedly make it the world\u2019s largest wind-powered vessel capable of traveling across the Atlantic to the US with a total journey time of 12 days at a speed of 10 knots. Wallenius Marine highlights that this is only four days longer than a carrier powered by fossil fuel while releasing 90% less CO2 in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Oceanbird project, developed in partnership with Sweden\u2019s naval research institute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sspa.se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SSPA<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KTH Royal Institute of Technology<\/a>, hopes to mitigate maritime freight transport\u2019s environmental impact, which accounts for 90% of trade worldwide. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentliving.co\/worlds-largest-wind-powered-vessel\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden-based shipping company&nbsp;Wallenius Marine&nbsp;is building a massive ship, called&nbsp;Oceanbird, which could transport 7K trucks and cars across the Atlantic Ocean propelled only by the wind. The Oceanbird would have five&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}