At Pier 17 in the South Street Seaport, New Yorkers can find the world’s largest cargo sailboat, Grain de Sail ll. The wind-powered ship arrived in New York on Wednesday with 350 tons of goods.
Sea weather was fair more than a week after the 90-foot sailing schooner De Gallant departed Santa Marta, Colombia for Europe carrying a cargo of coffee, cocoa and cane sugar. But tragedy loomed on ...
Earlier this month, a massive sailing cargo ship took off from the French port city Le Havre to make the 3,662 nautical-mile journey across the Atlantic to New York. The vessel, dubbed Anemos, is ...
The world’s biggest modern cargo sailboat has just proven it can do what skeptics long said was impossible, hauling commercial freight across the Atlantic largely on the power of the wind. The ...
Find out more about our Reverse Course series here. If you need to move a dishwasher or a new TV from a factory in Asia to a store in California, a container ship is the cheapest way to do it. These ...
SAINT-MALO, France (AP) — Had he continued working aboard fuel-powered cargo ships, Yann Jourdan reckons he'd be earning perhaps four times what he now gets as captain of a sailboat that instead uses ...
There are 8,000 bottles of organic French wine and 500 bars of chocolate aboard the Grain de Sail sailboat currently docked at ONE15 Marina in Brooklyn. The ship has completed an epic fossil fuel-free ...
Great things happen when experts in their field join forces to create a revolutionary green shipping concept. This next-generation vessel is more than an answer to zero-emission maritime cargo ...