“We have a solution with great potential and some main milestones reached,” says Norsepower’s Tuomas Riski, winner of Nor-Shipping’s Young Entrepreneur award. “It feels good to have an award for this kind of environmental technology.”

The Norsepower solution comprises cylindrical rotor sails providing auxiliary wind propulsion. “We are the first actor in the world who has made this work in full scale,” the 38-year-old chief executive said.