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Dry bulk carrier to be world’s largest kite-powered ship

By On July 6, 2011

In the first quarter of 2012, the dry bulk cargo vessel Aghia Marina will be equipped with a 320 square meter Skysail.  At 170 meters long and a dwt of [...]

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‘M/V Beluga Nomination’ pirated in Indian Ocean

By On January 25, 2011

After 4 days of uncertainty regarding the exact status of the crew, MV Beluga Nomination is now believed to be pirated. On the afternoon of 22 January 2011, the MV [...]

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SkySails Enters The SuperYacht Market

By On January 13, 2011

The Ocean Empire LSV (life support vessel) is a 44m Solar Hybrid Superyacht with 2 Hydroponic farms, fishing facilities to harvest the sea and the potentially the first super-yacht to [...]

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Skysails – Plus – Top 10 Green Ship Designs

By On September 26, 2010

From the gCaptain Archives: In honor of the EPA’s Pollution Week, let’s take a look at an archived post on Skysails. But first, here is a brief update into the [...]

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Interesting Ship of The Week – Black Magic turns oil tankers green

By On June 18, 2010

Whoever said a little black magic couldn’t be used to help cut carbon emissions?  Well, the folks at Sauter Carbon Offset Design aim to do just that with the introduction [...]

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Two Beluga Vessels Successfully Transit the Arctic Passage

By On September 11, 2009

Beluga Group has announced that two of its multipurpose heavy lift project carriers, M/V Beluga Fraternity and M/V Beluga Foresight, have successfully transitted the Northeast Passage.  Both vessels reached their [...]

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Skysails – Marine Environmental Initiatives At Work

By On May 26, 2009

  Passion focused on a singular goal is often the driver of new ideas and technology. Today the focus for many is on saving our planet from the effects of [...]

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Wind Propulsion Vessel E-Ship 1 – Interesting Ship of The Week

By On November 14, 2008

This weeks Interesting Ship is brought to us by MarineBuzz.com: Thanks to increasing oil prices! Here comes E-Ship 1 from ‘Enercon’, one of the world’s leading companies in the wind [...]

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M/V Beluga Gravitation – A Strong Ship

By On October 16, 2008

MarineBuzz brings us this amazing photo of the M/V Beluga Gravitation. They also note: Some of the interesting features of transportation are: In the month of August 2008, she sailed [...]

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U.S. Navy Charters M/V Beluga Skysails

By On October 14, 2008

The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command has recently chartered the M/V Beluga Skysails for over a month long voyage transporting Air Force and Army cargo from Europe to the U.S.  [...]

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Skysails – First Ocean Voyage A Success

By On March 21, 2008

Discoverer user mateMB has pointed us to news of Beluga shippings Skysails project to cross the atlantic with the use of a kite. In yesterday’s press release Beluga Group tells [...]

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SkySail Sets Sail For Atlantic Crossing

By On January 20, 2008

More…. skysails

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