That’s the Kathleen and May, pulling into Dublin with 22 pallets—that’s 21,000 bottles of Fair Wind Wine—from Languedoc, carried by the Compagnie de Transport Maritime à la Voile (CTMV). They are the “owners and operators of the first European fleet of merchant sailing ships, and the current market leader for clean, environmentally friendly transport.” Transportation by sail has one-seventh the carbon emissions of a container ship. (Why that much? Because they have generators for the navigational instruments and diesel for maneuvering in port or down rivers.)
