EPS tests new measure of sail power savings with GCMD
- Three suction sails on MR product tanker Pacific Sentinel yield 7.2% power savings over four-month trial
- Lack of standard methodology for calculating fuel savings holding back wind-assisted propulsion
- GCMD says it has robust framework for validating performance under operating conditions
Eastern Pacific Shipping and the Singapore-based Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation gathered data from on-off tests of suction sails in different conditions to isolate and measure the possible power savings
