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Canopée
Sign in to saveCanopée () is a French sail-assisted freighter ship. Laid down in 2019 and launched in 2022, it is designed specifically to transport elements of the Ariane 6 rocket from European ports to the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, South America. It made its first trans-Atlantic crossing in December 2022.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- roll-on/roll-off ship
- Owned by
- ArianeGroup
- Country of origin
- Poland
- Mass
- 10000
- Image
- Canopée (ship, 2022).jpg
- Length
- 118.20
- Speed
- 16.5
- Significant event
- ship naming ceremony
- Has use
- transport
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- country of registry
- France
- net tonnage
- 3200
- beam
- 22
- draft
- 5
- gross tonnage
- 10669
- payload mass
- 5491
- call sign
- FMUR
- designed to carry
- Ariane 6
- location of creation
- Rotterdam
- vertical depth
- 12.65
- powered by
- wingsail
- port of registry
- Marseille
- Commons category
- IMO 9924120
- service entry
- 2023-00-00
- shipping port
- Marseille
- fleet or registration number
- 39558A
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Canopée () is a French sail-assisted freighter ship. Laid down in 2019 and launched in 2022, it is designed specifically to transport elements of the Ariane 6 rocket from European ports to the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, South America. It made its first trans-Atlantic crossing in December 2022.
thumb|Canopée in Szczecin port, prior to the installation of the sails (2022) The ship is owned by Jifmar Guyane, designed by VPLP Design, and was constructed by Partner Stocznia shipyard in Szczecin, Poland, and Neptune marine, Netherlands. Oceanwings sails are designed, engineered and manufactured by OceanWings (previously Ayro) in Caen France.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Canopée” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.