Environmentally Friendly Shipping

Kudos to Wallenius Wilhelmsen for commissioning the design of an environmentally friendly ro-ro vessel.  Accoding to Wallenius Wilhelmsen's press release,  a scale model of the ship that demonstrates some of the exciting technical ideas produced by the design team, has now been constructed and will take centre stage in the Nordic Pavilion at the forthcoming World Expo 2005, Aichi, Japan. A working version of the vessel, which does not require ballast water tanks and produces no emissions is expected around 2025.  The vessel, dubbed the E/S (Environmentally sound Ship) Orcelle,  is named after the Irrawaddy dolphin, also known as the Orcelle dolphin, and is currently on the endangered species list.