Latitude Blanche is a French shipping company founded in 2017. After several years of cruising and ice navigation, they wanted to use their own experiences to offer a new, extraordinary approach to polar expedition and oh, boy, did they deliver! The pictures in this case study speak for themselves…
HydraulicsOnline.com appears at the top of organic search results worldwide, so it wasn’t by chance that, French based, Latitude Blanche found us when searching online for suitable suppliers. Their challenge? Sourcing a fuel feed pump.
The polar expedition company, originally founded in 2017 by two young graduates from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Maritime: Sophie Galvagnon and Yann le Bellec, urgently needed a rare hydraulic pump for their forceful ship ‘Polarfront’ to be used as a spare part.
The situation was critical; the pump in question was the main engine fuel feed pump and without it, expeditions wouldn’t happen, meaning a loss of income and many unhappy customers and explorers.
Knowing that the fuel feed pump was so rare, they expected a long and difficult sourcing process. However, finding Hydraulics Online proved to be a smart choice and made things easy.
Yann le Bellec, Co-founder and CEO of Latitude Blanche, summed up our service as ‘quick and precise’.
The Solution – "Quick and Precise"
Our team is frequently tasked with sourcing discontinued and even unidentifiable hydraulic components, or swapping original hydraulic manufacturers’ equipment into modern, off-the-shelf standard products, so the task in hand was a routine matter for our MD, Mark Tonks, who dealt with the case.
The optimal solution was quickly determined and after the exchange of a couple of emails, the order of the new fuel feed pump was signed, sealed and delivered—all within a swift 2-day window.
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The impact was dramatic. The supplied pump is the main engine fuel feed pump… without this pump the ship cannot move!
