Second Maersk Tankers vessel fitted with Spain-made suction sails
After completing installation on the first vessel in January, Spanish automated wind-assisted propulsion system specialist bound4blue has installed four 24-meter eSAIL suction sails on the second of the planned five tankers owned by Danish Maersk Tankers.
Maersk’s 29,445 gwt medium-range (MR) tanker Maersk Tahiti was fitted with the ‘plug and play’ eSAILs at Chengxi Shipyard in Jiangyin, China, which will help it to slash emissions, achieve double-digit fuel savings, and enable simpler regulatory compliance, bound4blue reported.
In total, 20 units will be installed on five Maersk MR tankers, marking bound4blue’s largest ever single agreement. The first installation, on board the Maersk Trieste, was completed in January.
“The agreement with Maersk Tankers reflects the wider scaling up of wind power adoption across the industry. Wind, and particularly suction sail technology, delivers massive advantage in both environmental and commercial contexts, and appreciation of this reality is blossoming,” said bound4blue CEO and Co-Founder José Miguel Bermúdez.
“It marks an opportunity for us, of course, but more than that it demonstrates a chance for forward thinking
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