First Fishing Trawler Sets Sail Once More Parlevliet & Van der Plas B.V. and SkySails begin practical tests of SkySails towing-kite propulsion for fishing trawlers
First Fishing Trawler to be Fitted with SkySails Parlevliet & Van der Plas B.V., one of Europe’s biggest fishing companies, turns to innovative towing-kite propulsion to save fuel.
Diederik Parlevliet, the Chief Executive Officer of Parlevliet & Van... more »
First Series of Cargo Ships Equipped with SkySails Wessels Shipping Company puts first of three new SkySails ships into service / “Extremely promising results from pilot testing”
The “Theseus” has become the first cargo ship in the latest series of... more »
Helicopter reports SkySails on North Sea Ships fitted with SkySails propulsion have been plying the North and Baltic Seas since early 2006. Since that time, the crews and SkySails testing engineers aboard these ships have reported seeing dozens of helicopters and...
Ships fitted with SkySails propulsion have been plying the North and... more »
SkySails receives "Sustainable Shipping Award" Towing kite propulsion awarded for its high innovative strength and significant environmental benefits in the category "Environmental Technology of the Year"
"Sustainable Shipping" is the predominant topic in the industry’s... more »
Shipping Company Stena Bulk wins „Clean Innovation Award“ with Skysails Technology E-MAXair is the talk of the fair at NorShipping 2009 as the „green“ tanker concept of the future
Environmental and fossil resource issues pose great challenges to the... more »
SkySails at NorShipping 2009 Scandinavian shipping companies show great interest in SkySails propulsion
This year’s NorShipping in Oslo (June, 9th – 12th) marked a twofold... more »
Zeppelin Group to Take Stake in SkySails Building a global sales and service network for towing-kite wind propulsion
Zeppelin Power Systems GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, a subsidiary of the... more »
Wilson ASA to buy SkySails propulsion First Norwegian shipowner to install environmentally friendly towing-kite propulsion system
Bergen-based Wilson ASA has become the first Norwegian shipping company to order SkySails... more »
SkySails Out-performs Traditional Sails More than Five Times Over Wessels shipping company orders three more SkySails-Systems.
The latest measurements made aboard the cargo ship “Michael A.“ demonstrate how the SkySails-System... more »
MV “Beluga SkySails” successfully completes maiden voyage: SkySails towing kite system impresses “We can once again actually ‘sail’ with cargo ships, thus opening a new chapter in the history of commercial shipping,“ was the verdict from Captain Lutz Heldt.
“We can once again actually ‘sail’ with cargo ships, thus opening a new chapter in the history of... more »
Maiden flight of the SkySails towing kite propulsion on a newly built cargo ship on the North Sea A newly built cargo vessel was towed by the innovative wind propulsion of the Hamburg-based company SkySails on the North Sea near Bremerhaven, Germany for the first time.
A newly built cargo vessel was towed by the innovative wind propulsion of the Hamburg-based company... more »
First retrofit SkySails-System on board of a cargo vessel - Initial operation successful SkySails pilot project on board the MV "Michael A." of the WESSELS Reederei GmbH & Co.KG based in Haren/Ems
At the end of 2007, the SkySails-System was retrofitted on an existing cargo vessel for the first... more »
DHL - “green” logistics with the MV „Beluga SkySails“ DHL Global Forwarding is the first logistics company to ship project freight on the MV “Beluga SkySails”. With the first commercial voyage of this newly built cargo vessel equipped with the innovative towing kite propulsion, DHL...
The MV “Beluga SkySails”, the world's first cargo vessel with the innovative... more »
MV “Beluga SkySails” is setting sail Ship christening of the worldwide first cargo ship with SkySails-System took place at the Hamburger Landungsbrücken/Überseebrücke on December 15th, 2007 – Milestone regarding the use of environmentally sound propulsion...
The first commercial cargo ship with additional propulsion by a towing kite system will be... more »
