News / Cross-Channel sailboat service set for new year launch

Photo: Grain de Sail

France’s Grain de Sail is poised to launch a cross-Channel sail-powered cargo shipping line early next year.

The Brittany-based group, whose activities span chocolate and coffee processing, maritime transport, import and export services and freight forwarding, will offer capacity of 26 pallets on the 24-metre Grain de Sail (GDS) 1 sailboat between St-Malo and Southampton, with journey times of between one and two days.

It plans to in initially operate one round trip a week, and increase frequencies by adding more ships, ...