Tankers may not be most obvious candidates for a streamlining makeover, but one operator believes there are good reasons - including cutting greenhouse gas emissions and saving fuel - for considering the possibilityShipowners will be familiar with the concept of improving hydrodynamic efficiency and the effect that this can have on reducing fuel consumption, thereby reducing fuel costs and emissions, but few appreciate the role reducing air drag could playBP Shipping has been taking the issue of air drag seriously and has been actively investigating ways of reducing it - and the beneficial effects of doing so - since 2006.
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