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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, ...
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