Anyone looking out on the Port of Vancouver in the last week might have noticed an unusual ship docked at North Vancouver’s Neptune Terminals, loading up on steelmaking coal.
The Chinook Oldendorff, the Liberia-flagged bulk carrier, bears three tall cylinders jutting straight out of its deck. Though they might call to mind smokestacks like one would see on an old-timey steam ship, they are in fact quite the opposite.
In 2024, the ship was retrofitted by Oldendorff Vancouver and Elk Valley Resources with rotor sails, an emerging technology with the potential to take a bite out of the global shipping industry’s greenhouse gas emissions.
What are rotor sails and
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