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XIUNAN, KARIN RÖSE, OLLE HOLDAR, TAMARA ALVAREZ CASTANEDA Meet Sleipner WALLENIUS MARINE’S FUTURE WAY on the first test run in Bohai Bay. When automotive giant Volkswagen asked Wallenius Marine to design the world’s most fuel-efficient LNG-powered car carrier, the company brought together the best in the business. Together with its long-standing partner, Danish ship designers Knud E. Hansen, it has developed a brand-new vessel more energy efficient than previous generations. T 20 OUR WAY 1/2024 he brand-new Volkswagen Pure Car Carrier (PCC), which left the shipyard in mid-April, is not only the first in a new generation of vessels designed by Wallenius Marine to carry Volkswagen cars across the Atlantic, but also the first result of a long-standing project known as Sleipner. “In Norse mythology, Sleipner is the eight-legged stallion ridden by the god Odin,” explains Wallenius Marine’s CEO, Johan Mattsson, adding: “A few years back, Knud E. Hansen suggested we should build the world’s most state-of-the-art Pure Car & Truck Carrier (PCTC) – a workhorse if you will – so Project Sleipner was born.” In the meantime, Wallenius Marine was