At dawn on July 28th, the Port of Tubarão, in Vitória, received the first ship in the world equipped with a rotating sail system that reduces arbon emissions into the atmosphere. The Sea Zhoushan left China and has a transport capacity of 325,000 tons of iron ore and pellets. There are five sails installed along the vessel that will allow an efficiency gain of up to 8% and a consequent reduction of up to 3.4 thousand tons of CO2 equivalent per ship per year. If the technology proves to be efficient, it is estimated that at least 40% of the fleet will be able to use this type of sail, which would impact a reduction of almost 1.5% in annual emissions from Vale’s iron ore maritime transport. This will be the first operation of the ship, which left a shipyard in China and will return to the same country loaded with iron ore. Throughout the project, 3D modeling of the loading ports operated by the company Vale was carried out to analyze the ship’s mooring.
Sources: Maritime Portal/Datamar News