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To reduce their carbon footprint, Jacques and Olivier de Grain de Sail have chosen to import their coffee and cocoa by freighter-sailboat from the other side of the Atlantic. Brut followed them.
Jacques and Olivier import their coffee by sailboat with the aim of reducing their carbon footprint as much as possible. The sailboat is 24 meters long and it can carry 50 tons in its holds, whether it is wine for export or cocoa and coffee for import. So that the boat never leaves empty, they load wines that are exported to the United States before loading their coffees and cocoas in the Dominican Republic to return here to Brittany and make the processed products. The motor is used only to exit the port. In doing so, Jacques and Olivier manage to divide greenhouse gas emissions by 17.
Thus, Jacques and Olivier say they want to defend the praise of slowness: they take about three months to complete a loop. “It is a model that can be duplicated, but we should not try to duplicate it ad infinitum. That is to say that, we, we rather defend the fact of consuming less, consuming better, transporting less, transporting better so we do not have the idea of equipping all the cargo ships on Earth with sails.“, concludes Olivier.
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