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Environmental Protection

While oil spills and shipwrecks occasionally cause a lot of damage to the environment, the constant use of fuel oil

(or bunker oil) produces over 1 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year.

Various regulations have been implemented to try to curb the emissions, but a more interesting solution is one inspired by the past: the SV Golden Horizon, the world’s largest square-rigged sailing vessel, which uses wind and currents whenever possible, instead of its engines.

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