2009 September 23, 2009
Neva-2009
Went to the exhibition Neva-2009, look at the achievement of all different manufacturers of marine equipment. To tell the truth, that basically wanted to look at the competitors, what is new they have appeared, but was totally disappointed, because I suppose they realized that Russia's market it does not shine, and consequently a demonstration of coastal systems is a man completely turned off. But there were many different shipbuilding companies, demonstrating their new ideas and development. Most liked the project SkySails:

I read about it somewhere, when he was her concept, but now, as I understand it quite seriously is demonstrated as a commercial product. They put on a ship kite
Run in the sky

And get up to 30% fuel savings. If we translate this into dollars - has hundreds of thousands a year.
Well, looks too nice I must say:

How it looks in the dynamics is clearly seen in the video:
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