Just over a year since the installation of three fixed suction sails developed by Spanish cleantech engineering company bound4blue, the Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA)-owned roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) ship Ville de Bordeaux has ‘knocked it out of the park’, having accomplished a ‘tremendous’ reduction in harmful pollutant emissions.
The Airbus-chartered vessel , which was built in 2004, was fitted with three 22-meter eSAIL suction sails in March 2024. As understood, the installation was co-funded by the European Union (EU). According to the Spain-based wind propulsion specialist, across 12 months, the RoRo ship achieved average daily fuel savings of 1.7 metric tons.