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owner. The trend is towards sophisti- charterers and authorities where appli- lem now is that there is no dedicated and ing the cargo control there are 2.5 mil- cated systems where data processing is cable. “Key Performance Indicators are approved standard way to analyze data lion measurements per day, some of automated as far as possible. then produced from the data. This data such as hull performance or operational which are processed already onboard.”

Eniram, established in 2005, has its sys- needs to be presented to the right people performance of the ship. There are only Mr. Katsikas describes how their data to- tem installed on some 250 ships already, in the right way, to ? eet managers and the EEDI and EEOI,” he notes referring day is automatically sent ashore through many of them sophisticated cruise ships. ship owners through web applications or to IMO’s Energy Ef? ciency Design In- satellite links once every hour to assure

Increasingly focusing on its Analytics to use it internally or with the classi? - dex and Ship Energy Ef? ciency Opera- all the data is transmitted, because of

Services, the company can provide more cation society through pdf or excel re- tional Index. “This is what the maritime the satellite links. “In some places there insight in the performance of the vessels ports,” Serafeim Katsikas, CTO of Laros sector is running into right now. What is a problem with the connection. In a and the ? eet, such as the ? eet budget fol- tells Maritime Reporter. “The real prob- will it do to handle all this data? Includ- critical situation, such as in an accident low up. From the cumulative database gathered one can extract trends, corre- lations and even develop new products.

Ship speci? c tasks include, for example, looking into the effects of changing the propulsion system, or the application of fresh hull painting on a vessel, compar- ing the data from some months before a dry-docking with data after the changes.

The potential of detailed data analysis is huge. As an example, the four percent estimated annual savings from using

Eniram’s system onboard 12 of Royal

Caribbean Cruises’ cruise ships saves

WIDE RANGE OF SURFACE PREPARATION $12m annually. The goal is to reach 14% in energy savings.

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People, joining up the shore operations to what happens onboard. ABB’s Ma- rine Advisory Systems is continuously further developed. The ship data is also transferred to a cloud-based application providing forecasting and benchmarking across the ? eets of vessels. The EMMA system was originally developed to cater

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