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MOL’s windshield for boxships cuts CO2 emissions by 2%

Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has carried out tests on a windshield it has developed for containerships and claims the device cuts CO2 emissions by 2%.

The shield has been installed on the bow of one of its boxships, MOL Marvel, and test results show the vessel had a 2% average CO2 reduction sailing at 17 knots on a transpacific route, compared to operating an identical vessel at the same speed without the device installed.

“MOL continues efforts to confirm the windshield’s seaworthiness and sailing data analysis, and looks forward to more advanced technological development based on this research project,” the company said in a release today.

Sam Chambers

Starting out with the Informa Group in 2000 in Hong Kong, Sam Chambers became editor of Maritime Asia magazine as well as East Asia Editor for the world’s oldest newspaper, Lloyd’s List. In 2005 he pursued a freelance career and wrote for a variety of titles including taking on the role of Asia Editor at Seatrade magazine and China correspondent for Supply Chain Asia. His work has also appeared in The Economist, The New York Times, The Sunday Times and The International Herald Tribune.

Comments

  1. It’s maybe nitpicking, but it’s very annoying when so-called ‘industry experts’ use such expressions as “17 knots per hour”.

    A knot is a speed of 1 Nautical Mile per hour.

    “Knots per hour” is incorrect.

    1. Thanks Capt. B, we took it out as you’re quite correct. We better inform MOL! 🙂

  2. Very pretty. But there is a reason for the breakwater fitted ahead of the first container stack, Unless that “windshield” has the same sort of scantlings as the breakwater, it will not be there fore very long.

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