RightShip in association with SAFETY4SEA has successfully held a couple of identical events on the use of predictive analytics in ship vetting on Tuesday, May 17th, 2016 in Athens Ledra Hotel, attracting 350 delegates from the vibrant Hellenic ship management community.
The event included a couple of presentations by Warwick Norman, RightShip CEO who introduced the new platform and gave a live demonstration of RightShip Qi’s attributes and functions and also explained the link between existing SVIS platform and the transition to new Qi platform. He also highlighted user-friendliness of the latest updates, as it enables the user to monitor and set alerts for activity such as rating changes and benchmark between fleets. Furthermore he analyzed the background of the predictive analytics engine and provided an overview of the changes to the RightShip star rating concluding by providing insight on how operators s may improve vessels’ star rating.
A third presentation has been provided by David Peel, RightsShip Manager for Europe, Middle East & Africa, on how to make sustainability pay, providing an overview of the GHG Rating and the reasoning behind charterers decision to use it to select ships and inviting operators to ensure that the data used for their fleets are up to date. He also referred to DNV GL Methodology behind the GHG Rating and outlined the financial benefits of the GHG Rating as published by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (University of Manchester, UK).
The event concluded with an open discussion between Apostolos Belokas of SAFETY4SEA, Warwick Norman, David Peel and the audience to provide feedback on sustainability and the role of predictive analytics in risk to the modern maritime environment.
