{"id":172261,"date":"2023-09-18T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T16:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/this-incredible-cargo-ship-can-traverse-the-oceans-with-its-massive-123-foot-sails-and-it-just-took-its-maiden-voyage"},"modified":"2023-09-18T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T16:23:53","slug":"this-incredible-cargo-ship-can-traverse-the-oceans-with-its-massive-123-foot-sails-and-it-just-took-its-maiden-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/this-incredible-cargo-ship-can-traverse-the-oceans-with-its-massive-123-foot-sails-and-it-just-took-its-maiden-voyage","title":{"rendered":"This incredible cargo ship can traverse the oceans with its massive, 123-foot sails \u2014 and it just took its maiden voyage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-incredible-cargo-ship-can-traverse-the-oceans-with-its-massive-123-foot-sails-and-it-just-took-its-maiden-voyage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking to the past has made a more sustainable future possible in the shipping industry, with the latest wind-powered vessel taking to the seas for its first voyage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KNZlQXBvQCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KNZlQXBvQCk&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cargill.com%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pyxis Ocean<\/a> from the Mitsubishi Corporation has been retrofitted with two \u201cWindWings\u201d sails \u2014 developed by BAR Technologies and produced by Yara Marine \u2014 on the cargo ship\u2019s deck.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring up to 123 feet (37.5 meters) high, the sails have been estimated to allow for up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cargill.com\/2023\/cargill-bar-technologies-wind-technology-sets-sail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">30% fuel savings<\/a> on newly built ships while cutting carbon pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to the past has made a more sustainable future possible in the shipping industry, with the latest wind-powered vessel taking to the seas for its first voyage. The Pyxis Ocean from the Mitsubishi Corporation has been retrofitted with two \u201cWindWings\u201d sails \u2014 developed by BAR Technologies and produced by Yara Marine \u2014 on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172261","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}