Green and Safe Transport in Commerical Shipping

Since the first seamen crossed the oceans, paper charts have been of main importance. However, with mandatory ECDIS carriage requirement, SOLAS Vessels have to move into the digital world. Services for Efficient navigation have been around since the first global met-models in the early 1970, but in principle Ship Routing is done the same way. This was the starting point for the project ?Green and Safe Transport in Commercial Shipping? (GSS) in January 2011. In the GSS-project, NAVTOR, StormGeo and Telko joined forces, and developed a new holistic concept for onboard navigation planning to form an integrated, cost-effective and very user-friendly service that enable Green and Safe commercial shipping. The GSS project has been performed on cost and on time. All part of the project scope have been covered, but according to the feedback of the User Group, more attention was focused on NavStation and ?e-NAV information overlay? than originally planned. This caused the total efforts to increase, however MAROFF contribution was not changed as the partners increased our efforts accordingly. The outcome of the GSS project can be divided in two categories: The RESEARCH made by StormGeo/KTH showed the usefulness of looking into Wave Spectra and Ensemble Predicitons as input to routing. Even if the method described in WP 5 shown to be too CPU intensive for a production system at present time, we believe it will be achievable in the future, and contribute to better routing advices. The SERVICES development to support Green and Safe Shipping, with Server Based Routing, NavStation integration platform and demo implementation Back of Bridge and in ECS/ECDIS. The GSS-Concept, with a Back of Bridge planning station (NavStation) enabling auto updating and auto licensing of ENC and e-NAV services, has been successfully tested both by the User Group and by 5 different vessels. A prototype of the GSS-Concept was presented live at NorShipping June 2013, and a parallel project started to find a 46?? touch screen for NavStation SW. Already at the User Seminar at Hurtigruten (late Sepember 2013), the concept of the Digital Chart Table was presented first time (Digital Chart Table = NavStation SW + North Invent XL 46?? with touch). The Digital Chat Table was given lots of attention, and later demonstrated for many customers and in several exhibitions like Digital Ship, SMM-2014 etc, as well as to producers of ECDIS systems. The feedback is all over good. Based on this success, NAVTOR has decided to introduce more services into the NavStation, starting with e.g. a new Passage Planning service, asked for by the User Group, demo to be shown at NorShipping June 2015. NAVTOR NavStation ? Video : www.navtor.com eller http://youtu.be/aJVJP7ABM0o In summary, NavStation has in fact been commercially launched and sold before the end of the GSS-project. In addition, the TELKO implementation in ECDIS, as well as a combined back of Bridge ?Telko Planner & NavStation?, demonstrated at the end meeting, has been given a lot of positive attention and feedback. The potential for sale is good as Telko is used on board most of the Offshore and Fishing fleet in Norway. In the Partner?s opinion , the demo made at the End-Meeting in November 2014, and already the commercial launch of the ?GSS-Concept? into the ?Digital Chart Table? and TECDIS, is the best evidences for a successful project. We like to thank MAROFF for the funding of the GSS-project, and hope the results are convincing, supporting Green and Safe Shipping in Norway and globally.

Green and Safe Transport in Commercial Shipping -GSS Today international shipping is growing, and two main challenges are: -Large emissions of Greenhouse gases -Accidents and related spill Norwegian Authorities has fronted the benefit of having a sustai nable and environmental leading shipping industry in Norway. One of MAROFF's main goals is "To support R&D aiming to reduce fossil fuel consumption and contribute to reduction of environmental damaging leaks". Navtor AS, StormGeo AS and Telko AS are th ree Norwegian companies that through a strategic partnership will be able to contribute positively to the main goals addressed by MAROFF. The underlying idea of the project is to join and, by pin-pointed R&D efforts, strongly enhance two leading maritime services; Navtor's ENC distribution and StormGeo's routing service. This will enable Greener and Safer commercial shipping. From a market point of view, the timing is just right as the ECDIS mandate's implementation period starts in 2012 and ends in 2 018. The potential earnings from an integrated service approach will be much stronger than the sum of earning of each single service. To obtain user requirements, and timely input underway, a user group consisting of representative Norwegian ship-owners is already established. The primary objective for the R&D project is to merge enhanced weather routing services with a new ECDIS platform including an ENC service, contributing to a reduced energy consumption and environmental footprint of the shippin g industry, while simultaneously increasing safety related to navigation. Two main secondary objectives are to develop a shore based routing, and utilize the EPS system as input. The MAROFF GSS project will contribute significantly to move larger part o f international shipping into a direction of becoming more sustainable, this will help in reducing the increase in Green House gasses, which is a main goal for humanity the next decades.