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Route Optimisation

Make it simple and fast to identify how to make your maritime voyage the most time, fuel or cost-efficient using comprehensive datasets. This is marine routing optimisation in the digital age.
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The intelligent maritime routing optimisation tool

Voyage planning is complex. It involves considering multiple factors – navigational hazards, ocean weather, environmental areas, local and international maritime regulations – and a whole lot more. It is also important that company safety policies are followed when planning the route. And then decide if speed, fuel efficiency or overall cost are most important.

Doing this manually is slow and can contain errors. The Route Optimisation module (available through the voyage planner tool) tackles that: using comprehensive datasets, it offers mariners the best options based on the parameters they have decided. It does so quickly and presents the information simply.

Critically, those onshore can see what is planned and coordinate with those on board.  Ship leaders can respond to changes as information is updated and consider new optimised maritime route choices. Through the system, their decisions can be seen by those managing the fleet.

The team behind the software

You can be confident that behind the information is the most experienced team in the maritime industry, staffed by ex-mariners who know how critical this is to the safety and efficiency of your voyage.

OneOcean marine route optimisation advantages

Consolidates all factors to provide the best voyage options

  • One digital interface for simplified voyage planning allowing teams to consider different scenarios and maritime issues before making a decision.
  • Scenarios include: weather conditions, navigational hazards, waypoints, environmental areas and where to discharge, international, regional, national, local and port regulations, vessel size and fuel type, how laden it is, and others.
  • Behind the tech: artificial intelligence, live information, comprehensive datasets, the best and most experienced team in the maritime business.

The maritime voyage planner that makes commercial sense

  • Designed for easy use meaning less crew training is required, and mistakes are less likely, even where English is not the first language.
  • Voyage goals are integrated: routes will be driven by cost, fuel usage or maximum speed, and your team can compare alternatives for operational efficiency.
  • Time is saved in a digital workflow which allows your crew to get other tasks completed.

Advanced technology gives great control

  • Unique OneOcean technology means ship leaders can rapidly consider changes on board as the software is available on the vessel – some other solutions need to be processed onshore then get sent to the crew.
  • Fleet-wide policies can be integrated into the software, so that all route options abide by these and so can go beyond minimum standards.
  • Those on board and onshore can see the planned route and so collaborate easily.

How it works: the voyage from Montevideo to Dar es Salaam

The complex ocean voyage

A Handymax vessel is chartered to transport 46,000 MT of corn from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on a 22-day voyage in January.

This period sees challenging maritime weather conditions in the South Atlantic and powerful currents near the southern tip of Africa, such as the Agulhas Current, which can reduce vessel speed by up to 5 knots if there’s not proper route planning.

The route involves passing through a Special Area located around South Africa, where there are specific regulations around bilge water.

Pair Route Optimisation with Passage Planning

These two OneOcean Navigation modules work perfectly together to generate greater efficiencies in time, cost and fuel output.

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