Green Harbor

Given enough time and determination, many of today’s Green Businesses are proving that any Green Innovation can be developed and produced. The latest Green Innovation is currently under construction in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and is an initial step in helping the maritime shipping industry reduce its carbon footprint.

B9 Energy might be a name some of our readers know. However, for the rest, the creatively named B9 Energy company is the U.K.’s largest independent operator of wind farms within the U.K. itself.

But, B9 Energy is now broadening their scope and Green Innovation expertise and applying it maritime shipping solutions. Under a subsidiary named B9 Shipping, the company is developing cargo shipping vessel that will run on wind and liquid natural gas (LNG).

The goal of B9 Shipping is to reduce a cargo vessel’s carbon footprint from construction to operation to destruction. The vessels themselves will be made with recycled steel heated by torrified wood pellets. Also, the vessels will all employ sails that will provide up to 60% of the vessels thrust with the remaining 40% of power and thrust coming from LNG fueled engines.

The vessels will first be employed for smaller, inter-island type voyages as well as shipping bio-mass fuels around Europe.

B9 Shipping hopes the vessels will prove themselves in this arena and eventually move into greater service and thus reduce the overall environmental impact of global shipping from cargo container ships given the inevitable growth of our population.

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