French transport company NewTowt (formerly TOWT) recently took delivery of a new sailing cargo ship from French shipbuilder Piriou.
Like her sisters Anemos and Artemis, Atlantis will be used to transport various cargo including tea, coffee, and wine via the Atlantic Ocean.
The ship was built at Piriou's Vietnam facilities and is now en route to Brazil following a brief stopover at Reunion Island. She will afterwards call at Le Havre.
Atlantis has a length of 81 metres, a beam of 15 metres, a height of 63 metres, and a cargo hold for transporting palletised goods totalling 1,100 tonnes.
The sails will provide all of the propulsive power needed by the vessel with a sail rigging of 2,200 square metres spread over two masts, while navigation will be aided by an autonomous routing system that utilises artificial intelligence and meteorological data.
Using the sails alone, the vessel can already achieve a top speed of 10 knots.
Atlantis was designed to operate for up to 320 days at sea per year. Navigation will principally be sail-powered, but the ship also has a hybrid power mode with one or two turbocharged four-stroke diesel engines operating at different levels of power.
Atlas, the fourth sailing cargo ship in the same series, is now undergoing the final stages of construction at Piriou Vietnam.