New sailing ship planned
NZPA-Reuter Tokyo Japan next year will start using the world’s first oceangoing bulk carrier rigged with computerised sails. The Japan Marine Machinery Development Association said it and the Usuki Iron Works would complete the 15,000 ton ship in August, next year at a cost of more than 2.7 billion yen $17.8 million. The design of fhe ship will be based on a smaller ship rigged with two computerised sails, which has been sailed successfully for more
than two years. It was developed by Nippon Kokan KK. a big shipbuilder, said the association. The 699-ton chemical tanker Shin Aitoku Maru, also equipped with a 1600horsepower diesel engine, has saved 50 per cent its projected fuel costs with the addition of sails. The new ship will have a 6000-horsepower diesel engine and two rectangular, steel-framed canvas sails that will be controlled automatically to make maximum use of the wind from any angle.
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