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WIND SA LS in the Plans for expanding the Oceanbird concept further are already in the making. In a not-so-distant future, travellers and all sorts of cargo may once again cross the great oceans on wind-powered ships, with significantly lower emissions than today. Josefin Falk Communications Manager Wallenius Marine A 16 OUR WAY lthough the first Oceanbird is yet to be launched, plans have already been drawn up for new options of wind-powered vessels. Wallenius Marine’s guiding star is Truly Sustainable Shipping, a concept in which Oceanbird will play a major part. In short, Truly Sustainable Shipping means that Wallenius Marine’s complete service offering, from design to recycling, makes it possible to become sustainable in all aspects and in all stages of a ship’s life cycle, explains Josefin Falk, Communications Manager Wallenius Marine. “Our strategy is to find ‘upstream solutions’, in other words to eliminate the source of the problem instead of settling for solutions that will just reduce the problem or move it elsewhere. One of IMO’s lesserknown goals is to achieve as close to Zero GHG as possible in this century. Oceanbird will have 90% lower emissions than its peers, and we’re striving to design Zero Emission ships.”