Making a pair of green newbuilds even greener, Sweden’s Stena Line is to add Norsepower rotor sails to the two methanol-hybrid NewMax RO/ROs it is building for its Belfast-Heysham Irish Sea freight
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Making a pair of green newbuilds even greener, Sweden’s Stena Line is to add Norsepower rotor sails to the two methanol-hybrid NewMax RO/ROs it is building for its Belfast-Heysham Irish Sea freight route (see earlier story).
Adding 80% capacity on the route in response to increasing customer demand, each of the two new 147-meter vessels has been designed to maximize freight volumes and will provide 2,800 lane meters of capacity. They will each be equipped to carry 12 passengers and 26 crew.
Now, under a new agreement with Norsepower, the first of the two, Stena Connecta, will be fitted with two 28 x 4 meter rotor sails. The vessel is being built by Jinling Weihai Shipyard in China and is scheduled for delivery to Stena Line from Stena RoRo in fourth quarter 2025.
The sister vessel in the same series, Stena Futura, is being delivered “rotor sail ready,” further demonstrating Stena
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