The world’s largest containerline has become the latest shipping line to trial out bow windshields in a bid to slash fuel bills.
Alphaliner reports that Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has decided to install a first device on a very old, 1999-built, 5,608 teu container vessel, the MSC Sydney VI, while the ship went through its fifth drydocking at a yard in China.
Norasia, a containerline that was eventually bought by CSAV, and then folded into Hapag-Lloyd, featured smaller bow shields in a series of ships built around 20 years ago.
Larger bow windshields were then readopted by Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) five years ago, with its part-owned Ocean Network Express (ONE) subsequently adopting them, followed by CMA CGM (pictured below).
