French ship proprietor and also driver Socatra has actually authorized an agreement with supporting wind propulsion systems supplier Norsepower for the retrofit installment of 2 Norsepower Rotor Sails on the tool array (MR) vessel Alcyone.
The 50,000 dwt, 2022 constructed, French flag vessel – hired by worldwide power firm TotalEnergies– will certainly be retrofitted with 2 35 m x 5 mNorsepower Rotor Sails The devices will certainly be supplied in December 2023 from Norsepower’s brand-new manufacturing center in China, with installment arranged for Q4 2023 or Q1 2024.
According to Norsepower, current computations show that the typical gas and also carbon discharge decreases will certainly be 8% for the ship as it transits in between South Korea and also French Polynesia, with the capacity for more financial savings utilizing trip optimization rising to 2,000 lots of carbon dioxide per year.
