Green ideas to get funding

WWL's Orcelle Grants support clean tech entrepreneurs aimed at making shipping and logistics more sustainable.

Orcelle Grants

Vision and mission

To support innovative solutions for zero-emissions maritime transport and logistics that holds promise of future commercial viability.

WWL awards Orcelle Grants to clean tech entrepreneurs working on alternative energy sources and energy efficient technologies for commercial ocean vessels, and marine terminal & processing facilities. This focus reflects WWL's own research and development into the E/S Orcelle, a zero-emissions concept vessel, and the Castor Green Terminal, a zero-emissions terminal and cargo processing centre.

WWL Orcelle Grants partnership with Savannah Ocean Exchange

From 2012, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) is partnering with Savannah Ocean Exchange to extend the reach of the Orcelle Grants, facilitating the leap of ideas and innovations across industries. The Savannah Ocean Exchange unites international organizations across multiple disciplines and boundaries to distribute and adopt solutions that positively impact oceans and ocean life. In 2011, the Savannah Ocean Exchange's competition generated applications from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East.

Savannah Ocean Exchange Call for solutions 2012

An international "Call for Solutions" for the Orcelle Award 2012 has now been issued by the Savannah Ocean Exchange.

The winner of the WWL Orcelle Grant award receives $100,000 and technical support from WWL's team of professional naval engineers and architects.

For further information on Call for Solutions: http://www.savannahoceanexchange.org/

History

The grants build upon the vision of the E/S Orcelle, WWL's visionary "zero emissions" car carrier concept which carries no ballast water on board. Unveiled at the World Expo 2005 in Japan, the E/S Orcelle concept vessel is designed to use only renewable energy sources, including the sun, wind and waves as well as fuel cell technology, to meet all its propulsion and onboard power requirements. In 2011, after successfully launching the Castor Green Terminal, a design for a zero-emissions marine terminal and cargo processing facility, WWL expanded the scope of the Orcelle Grants to include clean-tech innovations for marine terminals and processing facilities.
Orcelle Grants

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