{"id":379271,"date":"2022-11-28T20:08:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=379271"},"modified":"2022-11-28T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:23:34","slug":"from-giant-kites-to-foldable-wings-here-s-what-container-ships-could-look-like-by-2050-as-companies-race-to-decarbonize-their-supply-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/from-giant-kites-to-foldable-wings-here-s-what-container-ships-could-look-like-by-2050-as-companies-race-to-decarbonize-their-supply-chains","title":{"rendered":"From giant kites to foldable wings, here&#8217;s what container ships could look like by 2050 as companies race to decarbonize their supply chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#169;PIRIOU \/ courtesy of TransOceanic Wind Transport Shipping giants are racing to find scalable green alternatives to gas-guzzling container ships. From rotor sails and giant kites to retractable wings, some firms are attempting to re-invent the sail. Other shipping giants are betting big on green methanol fuel derived from agricultural waste. With pressure from regulators to decarbonize international shipping , companies big and small are racing to identify green alternatives to the gas-guzzling container ships that account for an estimated 3% of global greenhouse emissions. Many of the ideas floating around today leverage some form of high-tech sail, a futuristic take on the wind-powered voyages that have transported goods for as long as global trade has existed. Geir Fagerheim, SVP of Marine Operations at the Norwegian shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen, told Insider that a variety of factors need to be considered when designing a wind-powered cargo ship, including safety, functionality, crew comfort, and most importantly, speed. Oceanbird. Wallenius Marine &#8220;There&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies are racing to find a sustainable &#8212; and scalable &#8212; replacement for gas-guzzling container ships. Here&#8217;s what they&#8217;ve come up with so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}