LMG Marin France to support EPS’ eSail retrofit project on Pacific Sentinel
How Pacific Sentinel will look with her three eSails fitted (Source: EPS)
Singapore’s Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) has contracted the specialist services of LMG Marin France for the installation of bound4blue’s eSail system on its 50,000dwt 2019-built chemical tanker Pacific Sentinel.
LMG Marin has worked with EPS, bound4blue and classification society ABS to ensure preliminary studies of the turnkey eSails solution to be fitted to the tanker during the fourth quarter of 2024. The studies have evaluated different concepts to select the most suitable arrangement in terms of technical integration, regulatory compliance, performance, commercial operation, ATEX areas and more. The studies also helped to understand the consequences derived on board the vessel, thus minimising the conversion cost and facilitating the integration work at the shipyard, which has not yet been named.
The three 22m-high eSails to be fitted to Pacific Sentinel are expected to return up to 10% savings in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, subject to the vessel’s routing.
Following the feasibility studies, the Toulouse-based naval architect and ship designer LMG Marin France has been awarded a turnkey engineering package for class approval (basic design) and shipyard conversion documentation (detailed design).
LMG Marin, owned by Singapore’s ship repair giant Seatrium, ensures that wind assistance solutions can be installed on board existing vessels and new designs, in an efficient way. In early 2024, the global fleet of vessels using, or set to be retrofitted, with wind assistance technologies has surpassed 50 ships.
