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Shipping companies are putting sails back on cargo ships

NPR | By Henry Larson
Published September 6, 2026 at 4:06 PM CDT

One of the world's largest logistics companies plans to fit one of its ships with a strange type of sail, the latest in a small but growing number of cleaner sailing shipping vessels.

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