The Port of Bilbao has welcomed the Onego Deusto, a vessel operated by Onego Shipping & Chartering, as its first port of call after it departs from Rotterdam with eSAIL suction sails.
The newly installed eSAIL sails are designed with active suction technology, enabling a significant reduction in fuel consumption, up to 15 per cent in optimal conditions, thanks to the smart use of wind energy.
Consequently, this direct improvement in the vessel’s energy efficiency has an immediate impact on the reduction of CO2 emissions, meeting the growing demands of decarbonisation in global shipping.
On this maiden voyage with sustainable sails, the vessel, bound for the Port of Houston, will be carrying O-Next pipes, from the Tubos Reunidos Group Net Zero pipe range, the first seamless steel pipe on the market with 0.0 CO2 emissions.
The 132-metre long Onego Deusto is consigned by Bergé Marítimaand stevedored by Servicios Logísticos Portuarios-SLP.
The name of the ship is a tribute to the shipping company’s historical 20-year plus relationship with the Port of Bilbao, to those first calls in the Deusto Canal and to the close ties forged between the port and the shipowner.
At present, the vessel is sailing twice a month, with the US Gulf, Houston, New Orleans and other ports in the Caribbean and on the East Coast of the US as priority destinations.
Earlier this year, the Bilbao Port Authority announced it is extending its collaboration with AllRead, deploying the company’s artificial vision technology to automate most of the port’s road and rail entry points.