Knut, Rychly, DNV GL, Performance, Centre
Christian Rychly, Managing Director of Leonhardt & Blumberg (left) and Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO of DNV GL – Maritime (right) cut the ribbon. (Photo: DNV GL)
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Classification society DNV GL has opened two digital fleet performance centres in Hamburg and Singapore. One of the pilot customers is ship owner Leonhardt & Blumberg.

The centres are support to support DNV GL‘s ECO Insight customers in monitoring and optimizing their fleets.[ds_preview] »Expert systems are able to check incoming vessel data from customers, providing quality control of the data and offering suggestions on potential improvement levers for both individual vessels and fleets, such as identifying speed loitering and over-usage of auxiliary engines or boilers«, the Norwegian-german classification society stated.

The system underwent operational trials for the last nine months and it is already supporting pilot clients in Asia and Europe daily with data quality and performance alerts, performance reviews, and ad-hoc investigations into performance issues and claims cases, among others. In addition to machine-learning systems, the validity of performance alerts are verified before they are being send to customers.

»By working together, we can now truly see the benefits of ‘big data’ in shipping – and giving ship managers a direct line to our trusted expert advice, makes taking these gains even easier.«

Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO of DNV GL – Maritime

»We are very glad to have partnered with DNV GL. It is of great value to us when performance experts provide a ‘second pair of eyes‘ on our fleet and give us real-time warnings if vessels are not being operated in the most efficient manner,« said Christian Rychly, managing director of the German shipping company Leonhardt & Blumberg. »To mitigate the market pressure, we exactly need those tools which enhance our efficiency and help us to comply with the ever more challenging environmental regulations,« he added. As one of the pilot customers the concept has been developed with, Leonhardt & Blumberg has installed the ECO Insight tool already on 35 of its vessels, with more than 20 planned to follow soon.

»The fleet performance centres are just one of the ways we are working to use digitalization to help our customers enhance their competitiveness through improved efficiency, greater safety, and increased margins,« said Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO of DNV GL – Maritime.

According to the statement, the launch of the fleet performance centres is the first building block of the new ECO Insight 2.0, to be released in August 2017.