The world’s first Ro-Ro ship with six rotor sails was launched in Wuhan, Hubei Province, recently. The vessel was built by Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited, for its European client.
The ship is 169 meters long, 23.32 meters wide and 8.5 meters high, which is designed to draw 5.7 meters of water. It can cruise at 14 knots normally and 17 knots in full sail. It has two main engines and two supplementary engines that can run on both methanol and fossil fuel, as well as two stabilizers.
It is equipped with various advanced automatic systems to optimize energy-consumption efficiency and supervise carbon emissions. Notably, the two main engines, which can switch smoothly between methanol and fossil fuel, will achieve zero-sulphur emissions, and reduce over 80 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions and about 25 percent of carbon emissions compared with standard engines. (....)