After over one year of using the solution onboard Copenhagen, the ferry line has decided to equip her sister ship with the 30 m-tall and 5 m in diameter cylindrical sail.
The installation is scheduled for 2022.
"We expected Copenhagen's Rotor Sail to provide a 4-5% CO2 reduction. That expectation has been met, so we have now taken the next step and prepared the sister ferry Berlin for installation," Scandlines' COO, Michael Guldmann Petersen, said.
He also underlined, "Our [Gedser-Rostock] route across the Baltic Sea is north/south bound, and the prevailing wind is from the west or east. In other words, our Rotor Sails have optimal conditions."
Tuomas Riski, Norsepower's CEO, also commented, "We are delighted that Scandlines is expanding its use of our Rotor Sail technology after achieving its CO2 emission reduction targets on its first vessel, Copenhagen. Our Rotor Sail technology is technically applicable to approximately 30,000 vessels in the current global fleet and we hope that this is a further signal to ship owners and operators that confidence is growing in wind propulsion technology."
Photo: Scandlines