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Date Posted: 13:38:19 06/01/08 Sun
Author: SFO Mike
Subject: New Age of Sail?

Latitude 38, May 2008

No wine bafore it's time
It may be just a part time gig at this writting, but one old windjammer is back in the business of hauling cargo. The 170 ft. three masted barque Belem - built in 1895 for th chocolate trade (she hauled cocoa and sugar from Brazil to a famous chocolate maker in France) - delivered a cargo of wine from France to Ireland last month. The 'green' idea of returning to sailing ships to delivr certian cargoes was that of Frederic Albert, founder of the shipping company Compagnie de Transport Maritime a la Voile. It was sparked by double desires:"To do something for the planet and something for the wines of France." he said. Albert is proud to point out that the Belem's cargo saved an estimated 4.9 ounces of carbon per bottle over 'powered' shipping. Plus the novelty of it all - each bottle had a sticker indicating they were "carried by sailing ship" - had the wine flying off store shelves.
The idea really seems to be taking off. Albert says he has a waiting list of 200 other wine producers all through France wanting to get their wines aboard sailing ships bound for the UK, and later to Scandinavian and even Canadian ports. If Albert's vision is fulfilled, he's even planning to build additional sailing ships - the first commercial tallships commissioned in France in over 100 years - for the wine trade.

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