Louis Dreyfus vessel saves 1.7 mt/day of fuel with wind propulsion
One of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs' RoRo vessels has fitted three suction sails and vessel and cut some of its fuel consumption.
IMAGE: Vessels installed with bound4blue's suction sails. Getty Images
The Airbus-chartered vessel Ville de Bordeaux was fitted with three 22-meter suction sails in March 2024, developed by Spanish wind-assisted propulsion technology developer bound4blue.
A third-party assessment conducted by the French class society Bureau Veritas Solutions Marine & Offshore (BVS) confirmed that the RoRo vessel can save 568 mt/year of fuel.
BVS projects that the suction sails can reduce 2,181 mt of well-to-wake (WtW) CO2 emissions and peak fuel savings of about 5.4 mt/day.
The vessel, which transports Airbus aircraft parts from Europe to the US, saved fuel without using weather routing, bound4blue said.
The suction sails were co-funded by the European Union (EU).
Suctions sails and other wind-assisted propulsion systems (WAPS) have become popular for shipowners looking for technologies that can boost vessel performance and reduce fuel consumption.
By Aparupa Mazumder
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