” In this edition, too, a kick-off of a series of articles about new opportunities for the sailing freight and passenger shipping will start. The urge and necessity for more sustainable transport of cargo as well as of passengers has finally become more widely spread. Next to that, the rising high fuel prices combined with low shipping prices and uncertain and erratic world-political developments and it is apparent that the regular commercial trading leet suddenly faces major challenges that require unorthodox solutions. There seem to be openings here and there for a innovative return of a new sailing merchant fleet. “

Read the whole article at Leugenbank “Sailing merchant fleet part one”