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Container ships use heavy fuel oil called bunker fuel. They’re more efficient than trains, trucks and planes. But bunker fuel is highly polluting, and container ships produce about 3% of the world’s emissions.
The schooner Apollonia is the only working sail freighter in the U.S. Over its first three seasons shipping up and down the Hudson River, it has moved around 110,000 pounds of cargo and burned fewer than 10 gallons of diesel fuel.
A centuries-old form of logistics is back on the Hudson River, but it must navigate modern challenges to grow as a viable and sustainable to transport goods.
This week, a pair of Jon Bowermaster mini-documentaries were screened…
The Apollonia is a modern cargo sailboat, a carbon-neutral alternative returning sail freight to the Hudson.