The cargo crusing ship Anemos is crossing the Atlantic Ocean
Ronan Gladu/TOWT
The world’s largest crusing cargo ship is making its maiden voyage throughout the Atlantic Ocean. It left a port in France in early August, and it’s on monitor to ship 1000 tonnes of cognac and champagne to New York Metropolis by 3 September. Its shipments have a carbon footprint one tenth that of an ordinary container ship.
“For hundreds of years we knew wind was considerable [over] the deep sea, and we had the pilot charts,” says Guillaume Le Grand, CEO of TOWT, the French firm that commissioned…
