Airbus ship heads for Mobile, powered by suction sails

The decision by Airbus and Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) to install Norsepower rotorsails on their three next-generation newbuilds is just one part of the story on how the two are looking to wind-assisted propulsion to wring the carbon from Airbus’s two maritime routes.

Currently, three vessels chartered in from LDA operate on those routes — and one of these, the Ville de Bordeaux has now been retrofitted with bound4blue suction sails, in line with the LDA fleet renewal plan announced in...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/environment/airbus-ship-heads-for-mobile-powered-by-suction-sails/

Largest Suction Sails Installed On Dutch Cargo Ship

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Bound4blue, a european corporation that brings out machine-controlled wind-assisted propulsive force organized and made public that it has realized the largest three-dimensional suck nav ever erected and deployed on a commercial-grade vessel. It is an phylogenesis of the company’s circuit, which was fundamentally fixed in ahead of time December 2021 and testament be euphemistic pre-owned to transact elsewhere 12-month examinations to bear witness to to the...

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Amasus Shipping to retrofit vessel with suction sail solution

Netherlands-based short sea shipping specialist Amasus Shipping is to fit its 91-meter general cargo ship EEMS Traveller with two 17 meter high eSAIL suction sails from Barcelona, Spain-based rigid sail specialist bound4blue.

The eSail is one of several wind assisted propulsion solutions offered by the company. The eSAIL technology is based on active boundary layer control using suction. When exposed to wind, with the suction off, it only produces drag as with any other non-lifting structure....

https://www.marinelog.com/technology/amasus-shipping-to-retrofit-vessel-with-suction-sail-solution/

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