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SAFETY4SEA - Pioneers of green shipping shine at the 2025 GREEN4SEA Awards

The Editorial Team - SAFETY4SEA

Diane Gilpin, Founder & CEO, Smart Green Shipping, received the 2025 GREEN4SEA Personality Award for her groundbreaking innovation in advancing a greener future for the maritime industry. As a pioneer in renewable energy solutions, she advocates for wind propulsion to accelerate the industry’s transition, taking significant action. Notably, she has developed the Future Automated Sail Technology (FastRig) in collaboration with key partners.

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IWSA Wind Propulsion Survey

The International Windship Association has launched this comprehensive survey to gauge perceptions of wind propulsion technology in the shipping sector. Your participation would be most appreciated to give IWSA the best, most comprehensive data to help drive this important sector.

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Logistics UK - The Green Miles: 9 Below Zero

Maritime innovator takes The Green Miles' nine question challenge.

Enabling the move away from fossil-powered ships is Diane Gilpin's Smart Green Shipping (SGS), an innovative company helping modern vessels harness the power of the wind using 21st century, digitally-enabled technology.

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Logistics UK - Pushing the boat out

The shipping industry turns to giant high-tech wings.

"Why didn't I think of that?" You may well ask. After all, it is a simple premise - huge 20-metre wings that propel cargo ships and reduce carbon emissions. When bolted to a vessel’s decks and sitting upright, the wing, called FastRig, will act as a sail harnessing the power of wind.  

Smart Green Shipping (SGS), the company that has developed the device, and some of the world’s leading shipowners are convinced that it can provide clean power to supplement ships’ engines.

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Tech Market View - Totally Sust Podcast #6: Wind-as-a-service: Wing-sail solutions to decarbonise Global Shiping

Craig Wentworth - Tech Market View

 
 

In the sixth episode of TechMarketView's sustainability technology podcast "Totally Sust", Principal Analyst Craig Wentworth talks to Di Gilpin (Founder & CEO at Smart Green Shipping) and Henry Smith (Chartering Manager at MOL, the Mitsui O.S.K. Lines shipping business) about how Smart Green Shipping's FastRig wing-sail is being used to decarbonise commercial shipping, and the company's innovative Wind-as-a-Service business model that helps de-risk adoption of such innovative new tech.

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ESG Investor - Set Sail For A Green Future

By Diane Gilpin for ESG Investor

The misconception that wind is unpredictable and therefore an impossible alternative to fossil fuels, has meant the maritime industry and investors continue to underestimate this primary renewable energy. But modern wind-assist technology in tandem with the latest in route optimisation software – taking into account historical and real-time weather forecasts and data – means we have the ability to predict when and how the wind will blow, bringing wind into the 21st century.

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Reuters - Sea trial aims to give industry confidence in smart sail tech

 

Reuters

 

A cargo ship fitted with a high-tech, computer-controlled smart sail is undergoing sea trials off the United Kingdom coast to test how effective it is in helping power the ship. Olivia Zollino reports.

“By 2050, shipping needs to be net zero so we need to find ways of reducing the fuel and the emissions from shipping. And wind is a brilliant way of starting that process.”

Watch the video to learn more.

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TradeWinds - ShipTech News: Will renting out the wind work? Ask Di

Craig Eason - TradeWinds

After 20 years, Di Gilpin saw her idea come to fruition when the 4,902-dwt Pacific Grebe (built 2010) left Barrow two weeks ago with its FastRig secured in its deck.

But the journey is far from over. The rig is only a temporary addition to the UK-flagged nuclear waste carrier. It will be removed once the trials are completed, with the data and learning from sea trials assessed.

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BBC News - How wind power could be future of cargo shipping

Stephen Stafford - BBC News

An experimental wind-powered cargo ship has arrived in Southampton to undergo sea trials.

The 5,000-tonne cargo carrier, Pacific Grebe, has been retrofitted with a new 20-metre (65ft) wing-sail to allow it to be powered by wind.

Scientists from the University of Southampton are coordinating controlled sea trials to assess the ship’s performance across different conditions in UK waters.

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