NAPA joins internet of ships programme

The aim of the ShipDC IoS-OP is to create a new, digital maritime cluster by minimising the costs of data ownership and portability for owners and operators, while allowing yards and manufacturers to access the data necessary for innovation and research.

Naoki Mizutani, managing director of NAPA Japan, explained more. “Collecting data on its own doesn’t add value unless you can turn it into insight. At NAPA, we can build on more than 30 years of naval architectural expertise and combine that knowledge with the latest big data tools to find answers to the questions the industry needs answering.”

Based on principles of co-existence and competition, IoS-OP brings together many different companies throughout the industry. Service users of the platform will be able to use NAPA’s expertise to analyse vessel and voyage performance, either to reduce emissions and increase profitability or to research and validate new technologies.

Yasuhiro Ikeda, president of Ship Data Center said that NAPA is renowned in the industry for its expertise in naval architecture, hydrodynamics, and big data. “NAPA is well suited to provide performance analytics and voyage optimisation services to the IoS-OP community, and we are delighted to welcome them on board as its first service provider,” he said.

In April this year, NAPA also became the first certified application provider for Inmarsat’s IoT service, Fleet Data.