Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?
by Michaela Cavanagh from Environment | The Guardian on (#71JWJ)
The Neoliner Origin set off on its inaugural two-week voyage from France to the US with the aim of revolutionising the notoriously dirty shipping industry
It is 8pm on a Saturday evening and eight of us are sitting at a table onboard a ship, holding on to our plates of spaghetti carbonara as our chairs slide back and forth. Michel Pery, the dinner's host, downplays the weather as a tempete de journalistes" - something sailors would not categorise as a storm, but which drama-seeking journalists might refer to as such to entertain their readers.
But after a white-knuckle night in our cabins with winds reaching 74mph or force 12 - officially a hurricane - Pery has to admit it was not just a journalists' storm", but the real deal.
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