ACCWing is a high performance sailing wing for all types of sailboats, including largest ones. An ACCWing is lightweight, flexible and stowable with relative simplicity of design, with few metal components. It comes in two differents versions:

• the Yachting version is made of sail fabric and composite parts, compatible with light wind headsails (Spinnaker, Gennaker, Code Zero…)
• the telescopic Merchant Marine version, made of very durable composite panels.

CWS delivers a cutting-edge wind propulsion solution for the maritime industry. Our patented system features a rigid, invertible, asymmetric profile that ensures consistent propulsion, even on high-speed vessels, with minimal drift effects. Fully automated and low-maintenance, our technology assists the ship’s main engine, significantly reducing fuel consumption. It can be seamlessly integrated into both existing ships (retrofit) and new builds. CWS offers comprehensive services, including system integration, fuel savings optimization, and EEDI/CII analysis, in line with the latest industry standards.

Develop and market rigid composite sails for large cruise ships and cargo ships.

Grain de Sail Logistics is a freight forwarder specializing in cargo sailing ships and the exclusive representative of the maritime company Grain de Sail Shipping in France. Based in Saint-Malo, the home port of our vessels, Grain de Sail Logistics provides more than 90% decarbonized sea transport between France and the Americas, and also serves European ports. We organize decarbonized sea transport on our cargo sailboats for your shipments ranging from 1 to 240 US pallets and 1 to 294 EUR pallets, delivered door-to-door.

IRT Jules Verne is a mutualized industrial research centre dedicated to manufacturing. Working closely with production equipment manufacturers and integrators, IRT Jules Verne caters to 4 strategic industrial sectors: aeronautics, shipbuilding, the automotive industry, and RME. The IRT team works hand in hand with the very best industrial and academic resources in the manufacturing field. Its vocation is to improve the competitiveness of strategic industrial sectors in France by creating disruptive technologies for manufacturing processes. Its mission is to speed up innovation and technology transfer to factories. In its bid to provide comprehensive solutions up to scale-1 demonstrators, the institute installs and utilises a wide range of exclusive state-of-the-art equipment.

Norsepower Oy Ltd is a Finnish clean technology and engineering company pioneering mod-ern auxiliary wind propulsion for the global maritime industry. The Norsepower Rotor Sail™ has been used by customers for nearly 10 years and has been proven as a low-maintenance, easy to use, and reliable fuel saving product, which strongly supports the de-carbonisation of the shipping industry.

REEL, in partnership with the CRAIN research center and the Nouvelle Aquitaine region, is committed to the design, industrialization and marketing of a Suction Wing system for the decarbonization of maritime transport. This auxiliary propulsion system allows for significant fuel savings and thus significant reductions in CO2 emissions.

VPLP Design is a world-renowned young international team of French-based naval architects, engineers and designers working from Vannes, Nantes and Paris in sail and motor craft projects across the world. The activity is now divided into 3 areas: Racing, cruising (serial and superyachting) and Maritime.

Windcoop is changing maritime transport on a social, ecological and financial level. Windcoop operates container ships under sail, propelled mostly by wind power, which is inexhaustible, clean and free. These innovative ships contribute to develop a low carbon transport. Our first sailing cargo will be operational in 2026 on a direct France-Madagascar line. Our ambition is for it to be owned by a host of shipowners wishing to accelerate the transition of maritime transport. Windcoop is structured as a cooperative, and offers everyone (individuals, companies and communities) the opportunity to become a member in order to offer a new shipping company model. This progressive project will allow.

WISAMO -Wing Sail Mobility- is an innovation from Michelin Group aiming at contributing to shipping decarbonization, and improving merchant ships environmental footprint thanks to a wind propulsion solution. WISAMO system is deveveloped by Michelin and is actually a large inflatable wingsail, 100% retractable and automated, using free and universal wind power to propel any kind of ships -new built or retrofit ones. The wingsail principle is to be inflated with low pression thanks to small fans, generating very little mechanical stress on the textile. The wingsail is automated et it can be deployed or fully lowered thanks to its telescopic mast, that is a security guarantee in case of heavy weather conditions or to facilitate the ship mobility -for instance when passing under bridges or during (un)loading operations. WISAMO is an easy-to-use and fully autonomous system, particularly efficient upwind -the most common situation for maritime routesbut also efficient on a large wind spectrum.

Zéphyr & Borée is a young shipping company, based in Lorient – France which specialized in the fitting and operating of low-carbon merchant ships and is a pioneer in modern sailing maritime transport. Co-operator of the vessel Canopée, the very first modern sailing freighter in operation, Zéphyr & Borée is now developing a fleet of 10 container ships equipped with rigid wings which will be operated from 2025 between Europe and the United States.

Crédit Maritime, a brand of Banque Populaire Grand Ouest, is a major player in the development of the blue economy. Since 2022, it has dedicated nearly 70 million euros in funding to support the sailing sector, as well as several equity investments through the investment company Mer Invest. The challenge of decarbonizing maritime activities, including transport, is a priority, and Crédit Maritime aims to bring its expertise and support to sailing projects. Whether through financing or strengthening equity, the Blue Bank has the essential tools to place sail propulsion at the heart of tomorrow's key issues and support its stakeholders: equipment manufacturers, shipowners, etc. It is the sea that unites us.

Our mission : supporting company growth, promoting territorial economic development, representing local businesses and industries among public authorities. Providing business support related to various issues such as digital and energy transitions, finance, expansion into new markets, business performance. Entrepreneurship and company buyouts : Maison Création Transmission Entreprises - Sup'Porteurs de la création. Skills development : higher education programs, vocational training programs and executive education programs, apprenticeship programs (le Campus de Nantes), higher education programs (Audencia group, Ecole de design …).

As an estuary and port city, Nantes has always had a strong relationship with the Loire river and the maritime industry. Today, it is committed to supporting and inventing a sustainable, low-carbon and accessible maritime industry. With its excellent higher education training courses, competitive clusters, innovative companies and events dedicated to the nautical industry, Nantes is now the epicentre of tomorrow's maritime sector.

To enable this new maritime ecosystem to flourish, Nantes Métropole has been transforming the Lower Chantenay site (an industrial district at the Loire river and within the city of Nantes) for several years. Launched last Summer," Le Brick" is the first visible achievement: a 6,000 m² hybrid space composed of industrial workshops and office space for innovative companies.

The Nantes Saint-Nazaire Développement Agency's mission is to promote sustainable economic development in the Nantes and Saint-Nazaire area. We work to attract French and international companies in the region’s sectors of excellence, which create added value in terms of economic, environmental and social transitions. The Nantes and Saint-Nazaire region is technologically ahead of the curve, benefiting from a propitious ecosystem that has fostered the development of the sustainable maritime transport sector. Nantes Saint-Nazaire Développement, a responsible economic development agency, is organizing the 3rd Wind for Goods event on June 19 and 20, 2025, the only national event dedicated to wind-powered maritime transport.

The Pays de la Loire has chosen in 2023 to focus on ecology. The Region is accompanying all sectors towards the decarbonisation of their activities and supports all initiatives aimed at reducing environmental impacts. The sailing transport sector is becoming increasingly important in the decarbonisation of maritime transport, and the Region is proud to partner with the organisation of Wind for Goods to showcase concrete and innovative solutions to meet the challenges of the ecological transition.

Saint-Nazaire Agglomeration - La CARENE brings together 10 municipalities that are aiming to collectively build a future project for their territory, one that is based on solidarity and sustainability, and which serves its residents The Nazaire agglomeration benefits from a strong foundation of internationally renowned major industrial players, complemented by local companies with unique « savoir-faire ». It aims to establish itself as a leading territory in energy transition, the blue economy, and as an accelerator of the decarbonisation of the industrial sector Given the strategic position of its historical sectors, including shipbuilding, energy, port economy, and aeronautics, the region is committing resources to support the emergence of marine renewable energy, marine bio-resources, wind-powered shipping and H2 low carbon.

CRAIN is an independent consultancy located in La Rochelle which has been focused since its foundation in 1984 on wind propulsion. CRAIN has a strong background in naval architecture, fluid mechanics and energy efficiency which have been aquired by being involved in a variety of projects. CRAIN has a specific approach, based on a step by step and multidisciplinary method. It masters a large set of tools, from the evaluation of order of magnitude up to experimental methods. CRAIN's services are ranging from the evaluation of the aerodynamic properties of an isolated wind propulsion device up to the savings of a set of interacting devices fitted on a ship along its operating routes.

Fouré Lagadec Marine is a French company based in Le Havre, specialized in design, fabrication and maintenance of marine equipment. Fouré Lagadec Marine specialized in manufacturing and maintenance of antiroll stabilizers, retractable daggerboard and covers for bow thruster. With more than 150 vessels equipped all over the world and an orderbook of newbuilding deliveries until 2027, Fouré Lagadec Marine is on track to innovate with new systems and continue improvement of existing equipment. With knowledge on ship stabilization, mechanics, hydraulics and automatism, relying on a full design office and a dedicated workshop Foure Lagadec Marine service is independent to develop innovative solutions that answers customer needs.

MARIN is a recognised maritime research institute. Our mission is 'Better Ships, Blue Oceans': clean, smart, and safe shipping and sustainable use of the sea. As an independent knowledge partner for the maritime sector, government, and society, we offer concept development and design to operation, making optimal use of our test facilities, computer simulations, simulators, and full-scale measurements.

Since 2011 MARIN promotes research in re-implementation of wind propulsion in commercial shipping with various EU projects, Joint Industry Projects, IMO contributions and service to clients.

In order to judge whether wind propulsion is relevant for your ship design and operation MARIN can perform an independent feasibility study and, at a later stage, design optimisation and verification

Worldwide market leader for almost 40 years, MaxSea has developed a strong range of products continuously introducing cutting-edge features to the maritime market. We are really delighted to present the latest TIMEZERO innovations. Tens of thousands of professional mariners around the world use TIMEZERO to make their daily operations smarter and safer.

Vaisala is a global leader in measurement instruments and intelligence for climate action. With almost 90 years of innovation and expertise, we employ a team of over 2,300 experts commited to taking every measure for the planet. In Vaisala Maritime segment we provide diverse portfolio of weather monitoring instruments and systems to shipping. We have a range of reference-grade winf technologies including robust wind sensors, weather stations and remote wind lidars that can be harnessed to support better performance and optimization of modern salling technologies utilizing wind-assisted propulsion.