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  1. Impact investment 
  2. pathways
  3. digital
  4. wind propulsion technologies
  5. zero emission shipping 
Geography
Route
Vessel
Company
Service
US / NY / Short Sea Shipping
New York City ⇔ Kingston on the Hudson River
Apollonia
Schooner Apollonia
Monthly
Atlantic
Tres Hombres
twice a year
Grain de Sail is one of a kind project: a company that decided to build the first modern cargo vessel to support 2 distinct businesses:
  • supply cacao from Central America to make chocolate in France
  • export organic French wines to New York
The first generation of modern Zero Emission Vessels will start sailing in 2022-2023: they will be hybrid vessels, main propulsion will be sails, with complementary propulsion electric, biofuel, batteries…

One one side, those 3 start ups are commercially very successful : they convince marquee customers, major brands in fashion, liquor, automobile to onboard on the zero emission shipping journey.

But on the other side, the financing of those vessels is very challenging.

Jean Zanuttini, CEO of Neoline, in his Sept. 2021 interview, summarizes very well the : “this past century, we have always looked at improving productivity of assets, which means using more energy. But reducing GHG means reducing energy consumption. With a sailing ship project you propose to build and finance an asset with a lower productivity: it is against the financial rule, it is difficult to convince that even if the ship has lower productivity, its profitability can still be higher.”

Geography
Route
Vessel
Company
Service
Atlantic
St Nazaire, FR ⇔ Baltimore, MD
Neoliner
Neoline
2024
Pacific
Central America ⇔ US + Canada
Ceiba
Sail Cargo Inc
2022
Atlantic
Le Havre, FR ⇔ East Coast, US
Phoenix
TOWT
2024