If clouds darken the situation in the Atlantic, everything is going well for the maritime cooperative Windcoop. She crossed, April 3, a new stage in the construction of the first sailing container ship intended to connect Marseille and Madagascar, Together : laying the keel.
Designed to transport 210 TEU* containers – or around 2,500 tonnes of goods – on its future Marseille-Madagascar line, the 91 meter container ship will be equipped with three automated rigid wings offering 1,050 m2 of sailing area. Baptized together, it is being built in Türkiye. Its launch is planned for December 2026, for delivery in May 2027. The progress of this project deserves to be highlighted all the more as, in the Atlantic, economic headwinds are blowing on sailing maritime transport. Faced with ship delivery delays and rising U.S. tariffs, the pioneering company Towt, positioned in transatlantic transport, was put into liquidation. Towt operated the ships Anemos and Artemis. Takeover by Crédit Mutuel and its RES fund (Environmental and social revolution), However, she will return to sea very soon. But the wind also blows in the right direction : adopted on April 1 by the Sustainable Development Committee of the National Assembly, the transpartisan bill on sail propulsion was voted unanimously on May 12. This law aims to provide a legal framework for sailing maritime transport and a fiscal framework to support its investments.* Twenty-foot equivalent.
