Chocolate, olive oil and wine are among its first items of cargo.
Decarbonisation ahoy
Does the future of shipping look confusingly like its past?
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One hurdle is scale.
The ship actually has an engine but her crew barely use it.
She sails at roughly half the speed typically reached by modern large commercial ships.
Clipper ships among themthe famed Cutty Sark were fine-tuned over many years of maritime development, points out Langelaan.
Should it come, he envisages launching a newly built clipper-style ship as early as 2026.
Those historic ships were beautiful and there is a nostalgia, a romanticism, he says.
However, its the giant existing fleet of huge commercial ships that deserve the greatest focus, he argues.
Shipping companies can reduce their climate impact byadding miniature sailsorkitesto their vessels, allowing them to utilise the wind.
Automation can also help to make them as efficient as possible, he adds.
I shouldnt really be saying this as a ship owner myself, he quips.
For now, De Tukker has the wind in her sails and a busy schedule to keep.
From tall ship festivals to heaving construction materials around.
Then it starts again, he says, again with the air of a hardy old mariner.
The ship will be sailing constantly.
