Sail away: Cargill boss calls for ship owners to invest in wind power

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The cargo ship Pyxis Ocean which has been retrofitted with WindWings, to save fuel on its journey from China to Brazil. Photograph Cargill/PA Wire Cargill’s head of ocean transport has called on the shipping industry to give wind power a chance in its efforts to decarbonise, as one of the world’s largest marine freight operators prepares to test the use of sails on a midsized vessel. Jan Dieleman, president of the US agricultural trader’s shipping business, said some shipowners were too sceptical of proposals to propel large cargo vessels using wind, hundreds of years after sailors started using engines instead...