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The Wärtsilä SmartDock User

Interface was developed using user-centered design principles. © ASC-Rand Holdings LLC

American Steamship

Installs Wärtsilä SmartMove ärtsilä Voyage in- iary of Rand-ASC Holdings LLC, and displays, along with a sensor suite troduced Wärtsilä has been installed on the MV Ameri- (comprising gyro, MRU, wind, and

SmartMove Suite, its can Courage, a 194m Great Lakes self- GNSS sensors). This is connected to a

W ? agship offering for unloading bulk freighter with a cargo single digital platform through which semi-autonomous sailing that features carrying capacity of 24,300 gt. Apart ? ve software products are available: advanced sensors and high-accuracy from its size, the ships area of opera- SmartDock, SmartTransit, SmartEn- ship control systems, effectively tak- tions – the winding, often narrowing try, SmartPredict, and SmartDrive. ing the concept of automated dock-to- and sometimes congested Cuyahoga The core blocks of software (including dock operations to the next level. Fully River in northern Ohio – created a controllers, sensor processing, Thrust- retro? ttable, the SmartMove Suite can many challenges, and the Wärtsilä so- er Allocation Logic and track follow) soup-up existing vessels with next- lution successfully passed the test, op- are sourced from Wärtsilä Voyage’s generation capabilities to improve erating on the American Courage since Dynamic Positioning portfolio, which safety, ef? ciency and productivity. The March 2020. For the project Wärtsilä has been in use over many years in ? rst order was placed by American Voyage provides a standard hardware some of the world’s harshest environ-

Steamship Company (ASC), a subsid- setup with redundant controllers and ments.

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