Many shipping companies/operators are now using some form of ‘passage planning’ to improve their operational efficiency. Careful passage planning processes can avoid hazardous weather (eg loss of containers), improve fuel efficiency and reduce steaming time.
Access to high quality and timely weather information is critical to many of these advantages and this information is readily available from a number of sources. However each ship design responds to wind and waves in a different way and it is the response of the particular vessel to the conditions, bearing in mind its loading conditions, that will inform the Master’s judgement as to the acceptability of his course or speed. Given accurate weather data, the right ship rough weather response information and the individual vessel’s load state can now all be taken into account within a modern routing system to ensure that the routing is entirely appropriate to the specific circumstances.
MOST Ltd are considering the use of modern computing technologies to provide a ship routing system that takes account of specific hull performance in adverse weather to deliver an optimum weather routing solution to each ship operator.
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