Avontuur

Our story: During his more than 20 years of work experience in the shipping industry, Cornelius Bockermann was able to see for himself how we humans adversely affect our environment. With his company he carried out heavy transports for the oil industry. It was a lucrative business that earned him a lot of money, but it also made him aware of the impact that global transport shipping has on the oceans. More than 90 percent of global trade is handled by container ships, which are almost exclusively powered by heavy fuel oil. This fuel has long been banned on land and must be disposed of as hazardous waste. This makes the ocean giants quasi floating waste incinerators, for which there are only a few pollutant guidelines and which are subject to hardly any environmental obligations. It became clear to him that something had to change. He asked himself: How can companies and consumers be shaken up and shown a sustainable way of transport?

Freight sailing is the answer - transporting goods in a climate-friendly way by wind with our sailing ship AVONTUUR.

We are a group of passionate individuals, led by initiator and captain Cornelius Bockermann, who combine ecological producers with conscientious consumers and fight for environmental protection at sea.

With our sailing ship AVONTUUR we offer the possibility to transport cargo by wind power to create a connection between sustainable producer and responsible consumer. We want to show an alternative way of modern transportation into the future; within an industry that has not had to face the strict standards that land-based energy production has been facing for a long time.