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MOL delivers first wind-powered cargo vessel in Japan

JAPANESE shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) delivered a cargo vessel equipped with a wind propulsion system on Friday, October 7.

The vessel, Shofu Maru, is the first of its kind to be equipped with a Wind Challenger, a hard sail wind propulsion system.

Shofu Maru is the first of its kind to be equipped with a Wind Challenger, a hard sail wind propulsion system developed by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines  and Oshima Shipbuilding.
PHOTO from MOL Shofu Maru is the first of its kind to be equipped with a Wind Challenger, a hard sail wind propulsion system developed by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines  and Oshima Shipbuilding.
PHOTO from MOL
Shofu Maru is the first of its kind to be equipped with a Wind Challenger, a hard sail wind propulsion system developed by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Oshima Shipbuilding. PHOTO from MOL