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The smart, and ultimately successful marine opera- tion looks for what can be controlled, and then takes aggressive action to manage those variables no matter how small a savings it may appear to reap.

Get In The Game “At the end of the year, a lot of half percentages saved [end up] equaling a lot of percentages in total,” says

Jörgen Mansnerus, vice president, marine management, for Bore, Ltd. With six ships already running NAPA fl eet management software, he estimates that Bore is seeing an ROI “in the region of 5%,” more or less, on each ship. “ROI is a year, a year and a half max.” Over at American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier (ARC), Fred

Finger, vice president of operations, is seeing small tweaks, such as a nominal change in arrival departure time across 35 voyages a year making “huge changes in fuel costs, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

And then there are the big numbers. In another case, optimization efforts during a trial on one ship uncov- ered sensor data showing an unusually worn piece of equipment. Focusing on that one piece, ARC looked out across its fl eet and took careful measurements to see if the same problem existed elsewhere. It did – on fi ve out of six ships. Addressing the issue resulted in a cool half a million dollar savings in fuel optimization, according to Finger. In fact, even on a trial basis, he estimates the fuel savings the company has achieved so far “signifi cantly outstrip the cost of what we’ve put into place.”

These examples are just the tip of the iceberg. There is lot on board ship that can be monitored and actively controlled to varying degrees to achieve savings: fuel and lubricant consumption, energy effi ciency, equip- ment maintenance, data gathering for regulatory com- pliance and port paperwork, administrative and crew workloads, cargo loading and weight, trim optimiza- “I like one-stop shopping so most of the data ends up in one spot and is query ready. I do not use management software that is not willing to expand or talk to other vendors.”

Christopher Rodenhurst,

USCG (ret), Fleet Manager for APL Maritime

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