The cloud-based web service for fleet operational insight delivers efficiency data for any ship without requiring installation.
Maritime software, services and data analysis provider NAPA has launched a new concept of ship performance monitoring. The new web service, NAPA Fleet [ds_preview]Intelligence, will offer quick and easy access to performance monitoring for any vessel, regardless of ownership or charterer. »For charterers and cash-strapped owners, it will deliver simple, transparent, affordable and accurate efficiency data to drive competitiveness and profitability with zero installation and zero disruption to operations,« the company said.
Available through a scaling subscription depending on the number of ships customers require data on, NAPA Fleet Intelligence delivers voyage-by-voyage analysis of fuel efficiency for any conventionally powered vessel dating back as far as January 2015.
It combines vessel design information with remote-sensed data such as AIS, chart data and real-time environmental data, incorporating algorithms and hydrodynamic calculations developed by NAPA’s in-house ship operations data and analytics experts based on detailed ship performance models for each vessel type. The final report shows voyage-by-voyage data on the route taken, speed profile and fuel efficiency, as well as what the optimised speed profile would have been so that customers can improve the next voyage.
»We see this as a game changer«
According to NAPA, its Fleet Intelligence reports have been verified against real-world ship performance data collected by NAPA’s on-board vessel performance monitoring systems, and accuracy was found to average around 95%.
Naoki Mizutani, Executive Vice President of NAPA Shipping Solutions commented: »Charterers, shipowners and managers have to resolve dozens of conflicting priorities on a daily basis. Productivity, efficient operations, transparency and close scrutiny of costs are more important than ever. Yet, for owners with limited liquid assets and charterers with short term contracts to it is neither easy nor cost-effective to install and implement on-board performance monitoring. By ensuring highly accurate ship efficiency data is accessible with a very low barrier to entry, requiring only a web browser and a subscription, NAPA Fleet Intelligence will democratise the use of ship performance data across the industry.«
»We see this as a game changer, making the shift to data-driven business decisions possible for any maritime business, which is in line with our mission to improve safety and efficiency of the whole industry,« Mizutani added.
As Pekka Pakkanen, Director of Development, NAPA Shipping Solutions, explained, the service uses public sources of vessel information as its core data with over 6.5 million voyages currently in its database and growing by more than 10,000 voyages every day.
