Tag: operational efficiency

Last year, Maersk Line owned and chartered fleet comprising 550 vessels completed about 37004 voyages called 33000 ports using 380 terminals in 117 countries. Given the sheer scope of Maersk Line’s operations, the Company is committed to reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. This puts energy efficiency as one of the crucial objectives. That means taking careful steps towards optimizing these 37004 voyages in terms of energy efficiency. Wondering how do they go about ensuring the successful implementation of this endeavour? That’s where Maersk Line’s Global Voyage Centre (GVC) comes into the picture. The Global Voyage Centre hosts a giant screen that, monitors in real-time,  the position of all the Maersk Line owned and chartered vessels.  A team of senior seafarers monitors these vessels 24×7 and provides support to improve their energy performance and facilitate best practice sharing. “The Global Voyage Centre was setup as a project in July 2013 by selecting a few Captains and Senior Navigating Officers from the fleet join the team with an objective to bridge the communication gap between the shore staff and the fleet as well as monitor the vessels on long ocean passages on a real time basis. The GVC has since evolved to take on ...

Efficient coordination of mega-ship calls boosts Port of Hamburg

Ecoships, a fully owned subsidiary of Newport Shipping Group, has introduced a customized version of the Six Sigma DMAIC approach to process and performance evaluation in order to optimise the energy-efficiency of the vessels under its management. The technique has already resulted in Ecoships’ managed ships benefitting from up to 15% greater fuel efficiency, resulting in substantial reductions in CO2, NOx and SOx emissions. One of the first vessels to benefit from Ecoships’ eco-smart approach is the 25,000dwt bulk carrier Bulk Rose. The vessel, delivered from Turkey’s Cicek Shipyard in 2011 and taken under Ecoships management in January 2014, was initially consuming 840g/dwt of fuel per day. It now consumes 750g/dwt/day. Ecoships used the DMAIC technique to identify the best technical and operational energy-efficiency solutions available, such as trim optimisation and weather routing software, along de-rating engines and retrofitting hardware such as rudder fins, shaft generators and waste heat recovery systems. “Bulk Rose was fitted with a shaft generator and we had access to most of the signals and measurements. But we identified that a minimum 10% reduction in fuel consumption could be achieved by operational optimisation,” explains Yilmaz. “After analysing the data, we decided to retrofit a shaft power ...

A cooperation agreement was signed between DNV GL and Marorka at SMM 2014. Under the cooperation, the companies will join forces to integrate DNV GL ECO Insight performance management portal with Marorka onboard data collection platform and decision support tools -thereby providing the customer with a unique and holistic approach to managing and improving the performance of their vessels.

DNV GL developed "ReVolt", a vessel that is greener, smarter and safer than conventionally fuelled and operated vessels.

DNV GL: Keeping the course one year on

DNV GL launches new performance management portal

Hull Vane to introduce fuel saving foil at SMM 2014

Mandatory adoption of mass flow metering system in the Port of Singapore

L-3 SAM Electronics announced seven container ships currently equipped with its latest SAMCon high-voltage onshore power connection facilities to meet California's strict clean air regulations