Mitsui OSK Lines, one of the world’s largest shipping companies (with 698 vessels carrying 50.8 million deadweight tons), has re-launched – uh – sailing ships?

Their website spectacularly unveiled the ‘Wind Hunter’, subtitled, Shape the future with wind and hydrogen.

They write:

‘What if we could build a ship that could transport cargo across the globe without needing any fuelling? What if we could make the ultimate zero-emissions seagoing vessel to reduce greenhouse gases?’

Now, I know what you’re thinking… Didn’t Captain Cook navigate a Net Zero transport vessel when he took to the south seas on his first voyage of discovery aboard the HM Endeavour departing...