at a Germanischer Lloyd exchange forum held in Hamburg in August. He said that the aim was to reduce fuel consumption through simple operational measures. For managers, it is important to ascertain fleet performance and determine the most cost-efficient ways to improve it. “Minimise the onboard administrative burden and use the minimum level of detail required,” said Mr Springer. He also recommended using standard reports for high-level aggregation of information and software tools for deeper analysis. “Money, not paper!” he said. Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) has
renewed its onboard data collection and analysis contract with Datatrac for a further three years. OSG already has Datatrac systems on more than 65 of its tankers, allowing the company to capture, monitor and analyse data across the whole spectrum of vessel performance and management. The contract extension will see all its international and Athens-managed tanker fleets fitted with the systems. OSG has purchased two systems from
Datatrac: Assetrac and Envirotrac. Assetrac allows the collection of data, some of which generates an electronic engineroom log – this and other data is used by fleet managers to assess and monitor the vessel. The amount of paperwork needed for traditional handling of engineroom logs is reduced because data is collected in a PDA, data entry is timed, and PIN secured. Envirotrac allows efficient monitoring,
recording and auditing of onboard environmental systems, ensuring compliance with company procedures on the operation of those systems. Tags fitted to environmental equipment, pipe work, associated valves and flanges guarantees the integrity of the system. Datatrac’s scope of delivery also includes customised data analysis and reporting systems, including a web-based interface. “The real value in utilising a system like Datatrac is the ability to compare like for like: for example, environmental performance across ships, oil consumption and individual equipment performance compared with manufacturers’ parameters,” ssays Datatrac’s implementation engineer John Walton. “It is clear to OSG that this data is a valuable commodity in the push for greater efficiencies, energy savings and maintenance of their competitive advantage,” says Mr Walton. OSG fleet managers will have immediate
access to all operational data and will be able to make decisions based on detailed historical and comparative trends. The information is captured as part of the crew’s daily routine. The Datatrac systems are simple to use and the collection and logging of data takes less time than it would on manual systems. They also alert users when data are beyond acceptable ranges.
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Management and Self Assessment (TMSA) module into the software so tankers with Internet connection can do the TMSA reporting in real-time. That is a major advantage that cannot be provided by other software on the market, says Mr Johnson. An increasing data-gathering burden
Datatrac says that its system can collect any data that is measurable
“With increasing reporting, compliance
and legislative requirements being imposed on shipping companies, Datatrac’s software has the flexibility to capture additional fields of information with minimal effort,” said Mr Walton. US-based Intellocorp’s ShipStrument
dashboard software provides ship operators with over 600 performance indicators determined from shipboard data. The software can be integrated with shipmanagement systems such as Amos-D, Imos, NS-5 and Napa. “As of now we are able to automate 85 per cent of the data loads. This is a huge step in the direction of where we want to go for easing up the busy work life aboard,” says marketing director Duke Johnson. The company is integrating a Tanker
can have psychological effects on ships’ officers. With affordable global marine broadband coverage just around the corner, InterManager president Alastair Evitt believes such communications should not be used to “micro-manage, or spy on crew or take decision-making functions away from the ship to the shore”. He believes that the self- respect of serving seafarers has been eroded in recent years. “I accept that the days where the ship’s master was responsible for trading cargoes and therefore the commercial success of the venture are long gone, but the vessel’s management must still be totally responsible and accountable for what happens on board their own vessel,” Mr Evitt says. “The introduction of the ISM Code in the
early 1990s, coupled with increasing crew costs and improving onboard communications, encouraged many companies, wrongfully in my mind, to write voluminous management systems aimed at facilitating the employment of the cheapest crews. To achieve this, the companies demanded mountains of reports allowing any critical decisions to be made ashore.” Mr Evitt says that this led to a dumbing down of the management function on board. “In my view, modern communications should
be utilised to enhance the shore-based support to a vessel (including, inter alia, training, manufacturer’s diagnostics and even medical assistance), as well as bringing crew welfare functions into the 20th century.” TST
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