New fleet performance centres to improve vessel efficiency

DNV GL opened two digital fleet performance centres in Hamburg and Singapore, to support ECO Insight operators in monitoring and optimizing their fleets. Through expert systems, the centres will check incoming vessel data, providing quality control and suggestions on potential improvement levers for both individual vessels and fleets, such as identifying speed loitering and over-usage of auxiliary engines or boilers.

In development and in operational trials for the last nine months, the centre 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, DNV GL performance managers verify the validity of performance alerts before they are being send to users. They also look at why performance is different between vessels of the same fleet and propose actions.    

“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.

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.