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Advantages of Wing-In-Ground effect sea transportation
Wing-In-Ground Effect crafts (WIG) are an emerging technology that provide surface transportation over water, with characteristics in between air crafts and marine crafts, in terms of speed, cost, maintenance and payload capacity. With cruising speed of 100 mph they are faster than almost all other sea crafts and, over short/medium distances, they provide journey times comparable to helicopters and air crafts. Flaring above the water, without water contact, WIG crafts provide an efficient means of transportation, with no sea motion fatigue and no wake, while offering natural stealth.
- Door to door speed is comparable to air travel for distances between 50 and 350 miles
- Infrastructure requirements identical to those of boat
- Opens new riches for regular high speed boat travel
- Exceptionally friendly to the environment doe to low use of energy and exchange of fluids with the sea, hardly producing any wake
- Can be operated with a sports boat license
- WIG crafts are recognized universally as maritime vessels for construction, insurance, operator licensing and registration requirements.
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