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“TOTE Maritime Alaska is excited to

AI to Estimate Vessel convert its ? eet to LNG power which

Speed, Fuel Consumption

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has will result in a signi? cant reduction in air (L to R): Stefan Eefting, SVP & Head, teamed with Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., emissions including particulate matter,

MAN PrimeServ Augsburg; Peter sulphur oxide (SOx) and nitrogen oxide and Tokyo University of Marine Science

Keller, EVP, TOTE; Per Rud, SVP &

Head of After Sales, Marine & Power and Technology to verify the accuracy (NOx),” said Michael Noone, President of TOTE Maritime Alaska.

Plants.

of technology to estimate vessel perfor- mance at sea by applying Fujitsu’s arti- ? cial intelligence (AI) technology, “FU-

JITSU Human Centric AI Zinrai.”

This project is a part of MOL’s ini- tiative to assess the effectiveness of AI technology, and aims to reduce fuel con- sumption and vessels’ environmental impact by verifying the accuracy of the technology, using Fujitsu’s AI Technolo- gy to estimate vessel performance at sea.

MOL provided actual voyage data col- lected from MOL ? eet in operation to

Fujitsu Laboratories, which, along with

Tokyo University of Marine Science and

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Technology, veri? ed the data by using a jointly developed machine learning the global shipping industry method.

Veri? cation methods: Learned the

VISITORS correlation of each item of operation data 22000, using Fujitsu’s unique AI technology

EXHIBITING COMPANIES and high-dimensional statistics analysis 1825, technology, and established the technol-

COUNTRIES 101 ogy that estimates vessel performance.

Estimated the ship speed from the

Welcomed by the owners of a fleet data other than the speed and veri? ed the comparison between that estimated of over 4 000 vessels , value and actual operation data, in case to assess allowance of speed. This same assessment was also applied to fuel con- sumption.

Results of veri? cation: Could esti- mate vessel speed with about a 1.4% al- lowance, and fuel consumption with an allowance of about 0.8%, based on the above-mentioned method.

This project is a part of the “ISHIN

NEXT-MOL Smart Ship Project” which assesses the effectiveness of AI technol- ogy.

TOTE Invests in

LNG Conversions

TOTE Inc., courtesy of being the ? rst in the world to order containerships powered by LNG, have been leaders in the push to design and build tonnage ahead of the emissions regulation curve.

The company again makes headline with the announcement that TOTE Maritime 4-8 June 2018

Alaska has contracted MAN PrimeServ – MAN Diesel & Turbo’s after-sales

Metropolitan Expo, Athens Greece division – to convert a pair of RoRo ships, North Star and Midnight Sun to dual-fuel operation on lique? ed natural www.posidonia-events.com gas (LNG). Today the vessels are pow- ered by four × MAN 58/64 engines and will be retro? tted to MAN 58/64 retro? t units. www.marinelink.com 55

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