PROPULSION

Maersk Tankers to host Flettner rotor trial

Maersk Tankers is to conduct a test of wind propulsion technology using Flettner rotors supplied by Norsepower, under a project coordinated by Shell and majority funded by the UK’s Energy Technologies Institute.

Illustration of a Maersk P-Class LR2 product tanker with two 30m x 5m Norsepower rotor sails

Maersk Tankers is to conduct a test of wind propulsion technology using Flettner rotors supplied by Norsepower, under a project coordinated by Shell and majority funded by the UK’s Energy Technologies Institute.

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