On 2023-02-23, after a well-prepared, quick, and successful Rotor sail installation, Delphine (owned by CLdN) departed from the Rostock port towards the greener future. Delphine is the eighth ship to sail with Norsepower Rotor Sails™ and 17 units have now been delivered since 2014. To make the event even more historic, Scandlines ships MV Berlin...
The Finnish Climate Fund has decided on a capital loan of at most 10 million euros to rotor sail manufacturer Norsepower for increasing its production capacity. Norsepower’s products save significant amounts of fuel and can enable emissions reductions measured in the millions of carbon dioxide tonnes during the next decade. Shipping emissions are a major climate challenge....
Deal highlights the advantages of offshore application for a post-carbon future, using wind propulsion solutions to meet sustainability goals. Helsinki, Finland – Wednesday, 25th January 2023: Norsepower Oy Ltd., the leading global provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, today signed a contract with Socatra, the leading French ship owner and operator, for the retrofit installation of two...
Norsepower CEO & Partner Tuomas Riski spoke at the Seatrade Hong Kong Webinar – Sustainable Finance, Shipping and Technology in November 2022 alongside representatives from companies including BNP Paribas and DNV. The high-level panel discussed Hong Kong’s role in financing the industry’s green ambitions. Below Tuomas shares his perspective on some key take-aways from the...
In a research partnership with NAPA, Norsepower has been able to demonstrate the combined benefits of using the Norsepower Rotor Sail™ solution and NAPA’s Voyage Optimization together. The research also showed that for voyages with lower potential windpower to harness, the use of voyage optimisation more than doubled the benefits of using the technology in isolation...
In a written editorial for Ship Management International, Tuomas Riski, Norsepower CEO, highlighted how enabling ship operators to work smarter and more sustainably requires a full 360-degree view of innovation and efficiency. “The clean technology market has often been characterised by investments in a single technology with the value of the technology being largely based on...
The recent years have increased the demand for reducing the environmental footprint of shipping. This applies both to ship’s technical aspects, it’s overall energy efficiency but also operational aspects, how the ship’s full potential is used the most effectively. These developments, together with increasing fuel prices have created new interest in use of wind propulsion...
Helsinki, Finland – 18th August 2022: Norsepower Oy Ltd., the leading global provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, today announced a contract with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co. Ltd. for delivery of single Rotor Sails onboard two newbuild liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered, wind-assisted CO₂ carriers commissioned by the Northern Lights JV. Northern Lights JV is developing the...
New senior hire reflects the maritime industry’s growing interest in Norsepower’s wind propulsion technology to help improve environmental performance Helsinki, Finland – 15th of August 2022: Norsepower Oy Ltd., the leading global provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, today announced the appointment of Mr Jufo Peltomaa as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). He brings decades of international...
Helsinki, Finland – Wednesday, 10th August 2022: BHP has partnered with Pan Pacific Copper (PPC), a member of JX Nippon Mining & Metals group, and Norsepower, the leading global provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from maritime transportation between BHP’s mines in Chile and PPC’s smelters in Japan. The parties are...