Further to Maersk Line’s latest sustainability report, the company has issued a sustainability update to announce its target that by 2020 Maersk is committed to reduce CO2 emissions by 60% (in comparison with 2007 levels).
Also Maersk explains how the information era moves into the engine room.
In a situation room in Mumbai, a small team closely monitors a giant map of the world on a screen. They are watching the progress of hundreds of red dots moving across the map, each one pinpointing the exact location of a Maersk Line vessel going about its voyage.
The room is home to the Maersk Line Global Voyage Centre, which monitors Maersk Line’s fleet 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The team is using complex, real- time data to plan and execute the most efficient voyages for the vessels. The result is an optimized network, less fuel consumed and less CO2 emissions.
‘Today every ship is connected to shore via GPS and satellite communications” explains Pankaj Sharma, who leads the team. ”We can monitor speed, fuel efficiency, weather conditions and other relevant parameters.”
In fact, 2 GB of data is stored every day from the main control system of each and every Triple-E vessel. 2800 sensors are hardwired into the Triple-Es main control system. The engine room alone has 200 sensors measuring temperature, pressure and operation. These huge amounts of data can be used to make critical business decisions on how to optimize fuel consumption. As a big carrier with more than 600 ships in operation, Maersk Line has a major advantage in terms of the ability to apply data on a big scale.
”We currently only use a fraction of the data available to us” says Jasper Boessenkool, Head of Strategic R&D at Maersk Maritime Technology.”Right now we are on a journey from analysing past data after the voyage has taken place, to daily data, and then towards ‘instant data’ – available online immediately, both onshore and on vessel”
Despite only using bits of the data in 2014, the Global Yoage Centre contributed to a reduction of 125,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions. The expectation is that as we become more advanced in our ability to leverage this data, the savings will be even greater for Maersk Line and their customers.
Source & Image Credit: Maersk Line
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