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Stephan Wrage, managing director of SkySails GmbH announced: "During the meeting few months we will finally be able to prove that our technology works in method and significantly reduces fuel consumption and emissions." Verena Frank, project manager at Beluga Shipping GmbH, SkySails GmbH's partner further stated that "the project's core notion was using breath application as auxiliary propulsion power and using wind as a free of charge energy".