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Ground-Breaking Tech Meets Owners’ Needs For Optimal Routing And Usability

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Ground-Breaking Tech Meets Owners’ Needs For Optimal Routing And Usability

Ground-Breaking Tech Meets Owners’ Needs For Optimal Routing And Usability

By MI News Network | In: Shipping News | Last Updated on December 18, 2020

Fuel consumption is the main value driver in transport and stays the highest fiscal concern of shipowners amid uncertainty surrounding bunker prices and availability. “Managing fuel consumption effectively means owners need increasingly to adopt new performance tools that leverage cutting-edge technology, including artificial intelligence. That’s exactly what we offer with VoyOpt,” says VoyOpt Marine Application Director Sverre Dokken.

“As an automated, all-weather voyage planning service VoyOpt provides owners and crew with superior voyage optimization to improve not only fuel efficiency but also reduce emissions without compromising transit time, which is a key component for operators in a fiercely competitive business,” Dokken says.

High reliability

The system calculates extra variables crucial to vessel efficiency than any competing system, together with native climate forecasts, ocean currents and wave dynamics, wind knowledge, ship efficiency fashions, navigational info, and environmental rules.

Shortsea (coastal) VoyOpt display showing route from Oslo to Kiel

Image Credits: VoyOpt

“Optimal leveraging of weather data is critical. Weather predictions typically lack long-term reliability. Using combined forecasting model predictions gives higher forecast reliability than route planning based on weather forecasting alone,” says Dokken.

The finest route by far

VoyOpt selects probably the most safe forecast utilizing Earth Observation (EO) and satellite tv for pc knowledge, likelihood algorithms, seasonal knowledge, present climate, and climatology. LNG provider captain Jørgen Grindevoll says he has grown to understand its capability to ship probably the most dependable climate prediction – or “the one that is most likely to be correct” – placing VoyOpt forward of the sport within the efficiency area.

Fellow trial end-user Capt. Pär Brandholm, senior efficiency and technical supervisor with a widely known chemical tanker proprietor, says VoyOpt provides extra granularity when it comes to blue-water voyages. “For longer voyages we normally get a broad recommendation, or a few steps, from the services we’ve been using for many years. VoyOpt is much more specific,” he says.

VoyOpt display showing optimized route from US to Germany

Image Credits: VoyOpt

Data aggregation ‘breakthrough’

“For me the biggest breakthrough is how VoyOpt aggregates weather data from multiple global systems and local forecasts, including hydrographical data and satellite data on wave height, winds and currents. Competing solutions use one global model, but VoyOpt uses AI to crunch these data streams into one, much more reliable forecast,” provides Brandholm.

In Capt. Brandholm’s fleet, 13 vessels are linked to the system and stay testing continues. “The tech guys at VoyOpt have done an amazing job with the ship models, which you can see on the map and they reflect the actual fuel consumption,” Brandholm says.

VoyOpt display showing optimized route from US to Lisbon

Image Credits: VoyOpt

VoyOpt calculates voyage plans primarily based on optimum engine energy and pace, considerably decreasing gasoline burn and emissions whereas enabling extremely correct arrival time estimates (ETAs). “The navigation officer enters a destination, and VoyOpt incorporates these factors to propose an optimised route,” says Grindevoll, including that route show options within the graphical person interface (GUI) permits gasoline financial savings to be monitored in actual time.

“My basis of comparison is 20 years’ experience with other systems,” says Grindevoll. “Either they were optimized for open ocean sailing only, used only a single weather forecast, or looked only at wind predictions, when in fact currents affect the hull more than wind. The key differentiator with VoyOpt is the advanced route optimization function.”

Superior usability

“VoyOpt is intuitive and very easy to use,” says Brandholm. “The GUI is excellent and the system responds very quickly. You also don’t need a huge book of instructions. Any captain or bridge officer will understand it pretty much immediately. For me it scores very high on usability – and I have a lot of experience in performance and weather routing systems. VoyOpt also gives the captain the ability to import the route, which he can use directly on the bridge.”

VoyOpt display showing optimized route between Spain and Italy

Image Credits: VoyOpt

Short-sea ‘game-changer’

Coastal and short-sea trades make up 90% of all transport in Europe. “The majority of navigators on these routes choose to sail in a straight line, without consideration of waves, wind or currents,” says Dokken. VoyOpt considers all these parameters and dynamically calculates optimized routes to offer greater gasoline effectivity. “This is unique in the market today,” says Dokken.

“When it is commercially launched in a few months’ time, I am confident VoyOpt will be a game-changer in short-sea. To my knowledge, there are no suppliers of weather routing for voyages of less than three or four days,” says Brandholm.

Boosting the underside line

“Maximizing the positive effects of currents has been very useful for our ships sailing in the Gulf of Mexico. Using VoyOpt we have seen a reduction in fuel consumption from a few percent to 7% or 8%, as well faster transit times due to optimal routing. The lowest fuel consumption on the quickest route of course has direct financial benefits,” says Brandholm. “I am sure other owners will experience the same benefits.”

Addressing the ache factors

Dokken underscores how in depth collaboration with end-users helped to refine VoyOpt, with thorough validation research demonstrating gasoline and emissions financial savings. “The industry pain points we want to help shipowners address with VoyOpt are sustainability, safety and solvency, in response to environmental, performance and financial pressures,” Dokken says. “With a 24/7 web-based service providing real-time local weather observations and continuous route updates, VoyOpt can help them to reach these goals.”

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