NAPA launches installation-free performance monitoring

NAPA Fleet Intelligence will deliver voyage-by-voyage analysis of fuel efficiency for any conventionally powered vessels as far back as January 2015. It will be available through a scaling subscription depending on the number of ships customers require data on.

The software combines vessel design information with remote-sensed data such as AIS, chart data and real-time environmental data, incorporating algorithms and hydrodynamic calculations developed by NAPA’s in-house ship operations data and analytics experts based on detailed ship performance models for each vessel type.

The final report shows voyage-by-voyage data on route taken, speed profile and fuel efficiency, as well as what the optimised speed profile would have been so customers can improve the next voyage. Data received can be used for a variety of functions; for instance, tracking fuel consumption, evaluating a ship’s operational performance, or evaluating the effect of environmental conditions.

NAPA said that Fleet Intelligence reports have been verified against real-world ship performance data collected by NAPA’s on-board vessel performance monitoring systems, and accuracy was found to average around 95%.

Naoki Mizutani, executive vice president, NAPA Shipping Solutions said: “For owners with limited liquid assets and charterers with short term contracts to it is neither easy nor cost-effective to install and implement on-board performance monitoring. By ensuring highly accurate ship efficiency data is accessible with a very low barrier to entry, requiring only a web browser and a subscription, NAPA Fleet Intelligence will democratise the use of ship performance data across the industry.”

NAPA’s analytics are based on a voyage database that currently encompasses around 6.5 million voyages, and is claimed to be crowing at a rate of more than 10,000 voyages each day.