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The world’s largest sailing cargo ship is making its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. It left a port in France in early August, aiming to deliver 1000 tonnes of cognac and champagne to New York City by the end of the month. Its shipments have a carbon footprint one tenth that of a standard container ship.
“For centuries we knew wind was abundant in the deep sea, and we had the pilot charts,” says Guillaume Le Grand, CEO of TOWT, the French company that commissioned the…