The partnership in between bound4blue and also LDA arised greater than 3 years back, as a result of the continuous search by the French shipowner to maximize its procedures and also its prices and also, most of all, lower the carbon impact of its fleet. Both firms interacted throughout 2020 on an initial job to evaluate the stability of the setup on among the shipowner’s vessels.

In parallel, the funding to release the job has actually been shut, with the assistance of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Acceleration Program, permitting to mount bound4blue’s innovation on among LDA’s vessels throughout 2023.

Jos é Miguel Berm údez, chief executive officer of bound4blue, highlights that this is “a great milestone to expand our technology, as it gives us the possibility of scaling up our systems for larger ships and doing it with a top-tier shipowner in France and in Europe, which is undoubtedly a big step forward for bound4blue”.

Regarding the assistance got from the EIC, Berm údez states that “it is very important for our company, not only financially but also in terms of accelerating our development and launching far-reaching projects. This will undoubtedly take our technology a step forward, increasingly becoming a standard for sustainable maritime mobility”.

Kamil Beffa, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs: “We pay particular attention to the decarbonization of all our ships and are taking a proactive approach to study, develop and adopt solutions in this direction. Our ship project management, engineering and innovation teams have been working for more than 3 years in partnership with bound4blue to implement an innovative and environmentally virtuous solution to assist in the propulsion of our ships. With the eSAIL® system, the sail propulsion will take the form of boundary layer suction wing profiles and will take advantage of the apparent wind encountered by the vessel to generate additional thrust. This device should make it possible to generate substantial fuel savings. ”