Earlier this month, a massive sailing cargo ship took off from the French port city Le Havre to make the 3,662 nautical-mile journey across the Atlantic to New York. The vessel, dubbed Anemos, is ...

Eighty percent of all global trade travels by sea, and the ships carrying those goods account for 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Now, some shipping companies are taking a new tack as ...

SAINT-MALO, France (AP) — Had he continued working aboard fuel-powered cargo ships, Yann Jourdan reckons he'd be earning perhaps four times what he now gets as captain of a sailboat that instead uses ...

The world’s biggest modern cargo sailboat has just proven it can do what skeptics long said was impossible, hauling commercial freight across the Atlantic largely on the power of the wind. The ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VELA, a pioneering French company innovating in 100% wind-powered maritime transport, is proud to announce a significant funding round of €40 million ($43 million USD)—a ...

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Had he continued working aboard fuel-powered cargo ships, Yann Jourdan reckons he'd be earning perhaps four times what he now gets as captain of a sailboat that instead uses the wind's clean energy to ...