Kongsberg Digital has launched Vessel Insight Access to make it easier for ships and shipowners to embrace digitalisation and benefit from Vessel Insight without the need of additional hardware onboard. Vessel Insight Access is quick to install, immediately ready for use and provides an intuitive user interface. Vessel Insight Access is especially suited for crew...
Bureau Veritas (BV) has launched a new digital tool for machinery maintenance. The tool connects directly to owners’ computer machinery maintenance system (CMMS) and helps them transition to optimised machinery maintenance schemes. For ship operators to sail safely, their vessels must undergo regular inspections of their machinery equipment and systems. However, most modern ships have...
Bureau Veritas (BV) can now provide owners and operators with new ways to survey their ships through remote inspection techniques (RIT) operated by BV’s own surveyors in France. BV’s key objective with the use of RIT is to limit the use of costly and dangerous means of access, by replacing them with safer and more...
DNV’s independent cloud platform, Veracity, has been chosen by BHP to enable the company to make timely and accurate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting, management and insights for its chartered vessels. The project aims to support BHP in its ongoing efforts to see Scope 3 GHG emissions from its chartered vessels reduced. Commodity producers and...
MAN Energy Solutions and DNV have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate across three common areas of interest: decarbonisation, digitalisation and hydrogen. Under the terms of the memorandum, the two companies will – by June 30, 2022 – detail action plans within the fields of decarbonisation, the hydrogen value-chain and digitalisation. The MoU...
Tidewater has chosen Tero Marine to help the company optimise the lifecycle of its assets through the implementation of a harmonised fleet management system (FMS) across its entire fleet. Tero Marine will deliver consultancy services and fleetwide implementation of its own TM Master fleet management software suite. Part of the Ocean Technologies Group (OTG) since...
AW Ship Management (AWSM) has chosen James Fisher Mimic (JFM) to deliver a full condition monitoring (CM) solution to four vessels. AWSM wanted a proven, modern, and futureproof technology to utilise and support their ongoing maintenance optimisation projects. Mimic 5, JFM’s latest, most feature-rich version of its CM solution, will be installed on four roll-on-roll-off...
Shell has signed a five-year contract with KONGSBERG for the installation of its energy saving JAWS (Just Add Water System) software on board 45 liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers chartered by Shell. These are LNG carriers which already utilise the Kongsberg Maritime K-IMS Information Management System application suite. Over the course of a year-long testing...
Furuno Hellas has been awarded Approval in Principle from Lloyd’s Register (LR) for the HermAce voyage data recorder (VDR) digital twin and remote service as an alternative to onboard annual VDR performance testing. This is the first verification carried out by a classification society of a digital twin specifically designed for this purpose. LR’s verification...
IB Marine is adding ChartWorld’s navigation data to its fleet performance monitoring solution to provide greater transparency over navigational operations and costs. The agreement will further enhance navigational data analysis of IB Marine’s cloud-based decision-support system, InfoSHIP Performance. The system is designed to collect, integrate, extract, and analyse data from any system installed onboard ships,...
Digital bunker solution and broker Bunker Connect International and bunker suppliers and traders Delta Energy Fuel Supply & Trading have announced a new joint venture partnership: Delta Connect DMCC, which will see the further development and expansion of the Bunker Connect digital bunker platform. The next step is to take the digital platform global to increase...
Marlink and OneOcean Group have teamed up to add a range of advanced voyage solutions to Marlink’s Application Partner Programme. This collaboration pairs OneOcean’s solutions, which connect ship and shore and deliver real-time information for better decision-making, with Marlink’s application management platform, to provide shoreside teams and seafarers with access to software for better voyage...