The Wind Hunter is currently on display at Expo 2025 Osaka, which is being held from April through October 2025. The exhibit is located within the “Future City Pavilion” as part of the Mitsui O.S.K. Lines presentation.The exhibit includes a demonstration of the retractable rigid sail, for which our company holds the patent, and has […]
On February 16-17, our CEO Dr. Kazuyuki Ouchi attended in the Wind Propulsion Conference 2023 held by RINA (Royal Institute of Naval Architects) at the IMO Headquarters (International Maritime Organization Headquarters) in London. He has presented a paper on the Wind Hunter Project, which is available here. The concept of “Wind Hunter” is not only […]
“Revival of Sailing Ships for Carbon-neutral Society” was broadcast on NHK Nagasaki Evening News on July 15. Our CEO Kazuyuki Ouchi was interviewed as a developer of Wind Challenger and Wind Hunter Project. The video will only be available on NHK Nagasaki website for two weeks. If you are interested, please access the link below.
Our Wind Challenger and Wind Hunter projects were featured on Japanese Yahoo News on April 28th.We read public comments to the article with much interest. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/ba23119c024d337a629d8c5e7b0f95fd0f1ce6f5 (in Japanese) The original article was published from Merkmal, a news site focused on transportation and mobilty industry in the Environment/SDGs category.
We are pleased to announce the successful completion of a demonstration experiment in Sasebo City, Nagasaki which we have been taking place since September. Here is the list of media coverage of the event; ・Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL)“Wind Hunter Project, the ultimate zero-emission ship that runs on wind and hydrogen, has successfully completed a demonstration […]
To start the Wind Hunter demonstration experiments in September, we visited the mayor of Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture, with our project members. We plan to conduct water tank tests, performance measurements, and equipment installation on a real ship as well as actual voyage in Sasebo City. An article(only in Japanese) with photo of the visit […]