CoVadem: big data for smarter inland shipping


Courtesy Shipping Factory


With the increasing need for improved fuel performance, smaller carbon footprints and optimised cargo volumes, the need for shipping data is vital. A unique, collaborative initiative has been formed named CoVadem. CoVadem brings together more than 50 shipowners from the inland shipping industry, MARIN, Deltares, Bureau Telematica Binnenvaart and Autena Marine. They have joined forces to make it possible to establish a huge and continuously growing databank of ship measurements, which can be used as a basis for sustainable growth and knowledge development.


nland waterway transport is constantly being challenged to improve both its economic and environmental performance. At the same time from a hydrodynamic and operational perspective significant improvement potential remains untapped because little to no data is available.


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Inland waterway transport is strongly affected by constantly changing interactions


between the ship, cargo, voyage and river conditions. The sector is confronted with challenging hydrodynamics that can only be better understood by gaining continuous measurements to build the databank that is needed to gain better insight into actual in- teractions, hence the need for CoVadem.


Although a considerable amount of navigation data, such as GPS, draught and echo sounder


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