Sail Cargo Alliance
By using the clean power of the wind, we create sustainable and healthy transportation treading as lightly as we can on the earth’s resources, sailing ships facilitate a direct economic alternative for trade, shipping authentic, ethically and locally sourced, cargo of exceptional quality and providing a transparent, high quality and reliable service at a fair price that reflects the real value of the journey. This empowers communities and individuals and ensures the ability of future generations to enjoy the natural world that sustains us.
The Sail Cargo Alliance is an informal membership association that brings together people and organisations who share a passion for sail-shipped cargo, working together in an ecosystem with shared ethics to create a healthy transport culture that promotes the preservation of the environment for future generations.
The Sail Cargo Alliance’s objectives are:
1. To develop an alliance of people and organisations who share a passion for sail-shipped cargo, working together with shared ethics to create a healthy transport culture that promotes the preservation of the environment for future generations.
2. To support networks of farmers, sailing ships, traders and ‘port allies’ within an ecosystem that delivers food and drink across seas and oceans, emissions-free.
3. To care about the quality of the produce shipped as Sail Cargo, prioritising organic, nature-friendly and fairly traded produce from small-scale farms and co-operatives, packaged that reaches end-user via a short and direct supply chain: a transparent way of trading that cares for both people and planet.
4. To promote activities that are built on the realisation that the current system of global trading needs to change if we are to have a healthy planet that sustains all of nature, local produce and local suppliers which are crucial to this future and across the seas.
5. To encourage the transport of this produce by Sail Cargo to customers: bringing us healthy commodities that we enjoy, are good for us, and what cannot be grown locally.
6. To appreciate that sailing ships use the eternal power of nature’s forces: the wind, the tides, the long ocean currents.
