{"id":149045,"date":"2022-10-28T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T21:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/wind-challenger-worlds-first-partially-wind-powered-cargo-ship-successfully-sailed"},"modified":"2022-10-28T16:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T21:23:01","slug":"wind-challenger-worlds-first-partially-wind-powered-cargo-ship-successfully-sailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/wind-challenger-worlds-first-partially-wind-powered-cargo-ship-successfully-sailed","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wind Challenger\u2019: World\u2019s first partially wind-powered cargo ship successfully sailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wind-challenger-worlds-first-partially-wind-powered-cargo-ship-successfully-sailed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is the first coal carrier to be powered by hard sail wind power propulsion technology.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s first partly wind-powered bulk carrier ship sailed to the Port of Newcastle on its maiden voyage this week. The Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), which delivered the 100,422 dwt (dead-weight tonnage) bulker on October 7, 2022, sailed to Newcastle on Monday, reported Offshore Energy.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), which delivered the 100,422 dwt (dead-weight tonnage) bulker on October 7, 2022, sailed to Newcastle on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/worlds-1st-bulker-powered-by-wind-sails-into-port-of-newcastle\/\" title=\"reported\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">reported<\/a> <em>Offshore Energy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world\u2019s first bulk carrier to be partially powered by wind, the Shofu Maru, sailed into #Newcastle this morning on its maiden voyage,\u201d the Port of Newcastle authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PortofNewcastle\/status\/1584419448726749185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1584419448726749185%7Ctwgr%5Efe871ce525557478cc109f398db25c1ae64c150e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.offshore-energy.biz%2Fworlds-1st-bulker-powered-by-wind-sails-into-port-of-newcastle%2F\" title=\"wrote\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the first coal carrier to be powered by hard sail wind power propulsion technology. The world\u2019s first partly wind-powered bulk carrier ship sailed to the Port of Newcastle on its maiden voyage this week. The Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), which delivered the 100,422 dwt (dead-weight tonnage) bulker on October 7, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}