Containers carrying 4m bottles of French cognac a year will join the exclusively Francophile cargo manifest of the slow boats to Baltimore that will be sailing across the Atlantic by 2023.

Charente region-based spirits company Jas Hennessy & Co has committed to using Neoline’s wind powered ro-ros that promise up to a 90% reduction in carbon footprint for non-standard cargoes on transatlantic shipping routes.