{"id":42085,"date":"2026-06-23T19:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/42085\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:54:11","slug":"dhl-to-ship-less-than-containerload-freight-by-sailboat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/42085\/","title":{"rendered":"DHL to ship less-than-containerload freight by sailboat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhl.com\/gb-en\/home\/global-forwarding.html\" target=\"_blank\">Global parcel and logistics provider DHL<\/a> plans to offer lower-emission shipping solutions on selected transatlantic routes by sending certain shipments in a ship powered by sails instead of an engine, the company said today.<\/p>\n<p>The project comes from a partnership announced between DHL Global Forwarding France, the air and ocean freight specialist of DHL Group, and VELA, the operator of wind-powered cargo trimarans using wind as the primary propulsion when at sea.<\/p>\n<p>This shipping solution will combine DHL Global Forwarding France&#8217;s expertise in transport organization, pre-carriage, on-carriage, customs, warehousing, and associated logistics services, with the unique sailing maritime solution developed by French boatbuilder <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/vela-transport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">VELA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The service for palletized LCL (Less-than-Container Load) shipments is primarily designed for customers seeking lower-emission shipping options with no compromise on speed, reliability, traceability or security, DHL said. That means it will be tailored to the pharmaceutical, high value &amp; luxury goods, cosmetics, aerospace, and wine &amp; spirits industries between Europe and the United States in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>Each wind-propelled ship will carry 600 EU pallets per transatlantic trip operating as a direct route between strategic secondary ports, such as Caen-Ouistreham and New Haven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy partnering with DHL Global Forwarding France, we are making wind-powered freight for transatlantic shipping available to a broader range of customers,\u201d said Micha\u00ebl Fernandez-Ferri, Managing Director of VELA. \u201cThis collaboration aims to provide a lower-emission alternative that is designed to integrate into existing supply chains with standard logistics processes, while maintaining consistent service standards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Global parcel and logistics provider DHL plans to offer lower-emission shipping solutions on selected transatlantic routes by sending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21057],"tags":[21073,21072,36496,36113],"class_list":["post-42085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dhl","tag-deutsche-post","tag-dhl","tag-ocean-shipping","tag-vela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}