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DNV GL Opens New Fleet Performance Centres in Hamburg and Singapore
DNV GL Wednesday announced that, in an order to provide further support to their ECO Insight customers in monitoring and optimising their fleets, the company has opened two digital fleet performance centres in Hamburg and Singapore, respectively.
"The fleet performance centres are just one of the ways we are working to use digitalisation to help our customers enhance their competitiveness through improved efficiency, greater safety, and increased margins," said Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO of DNV GL – Maritime.
DNV GL says the performance centres provide "comprehensive and customizable" fleet monitoring, which has been in development and in operational trials for the last nine months, and is already supporting pilot clients in Asia and Europe.
As Ship & Bunker has reported, pilot customer Leonhardt & Blumberg has installed the ECO Insight tool already on 35 of its vessels, with more than 20 planned to follow soon.
"Without the valuable contribution of pilot customers such as Leonhardt & Blumberg, we wouldn't have been able to develop this innovative solution. By working together, we can now truly see the benefits of 'big data' in shipping – and giving ship managers a direct line to our trusted expert advice, makes taking these gains even easier," said Ørbeck-Nilssen.
Christian Rychly, managing director of Leonhardt & Blumberg, commenting on the development, said: "it is of great value to us when performance experts provide a 'second pair of eyes' on our fleet and give us real-time warnings if vessels are not being operated in the most efficient manner.
"To mitigate the market pressure, we exactly need those tools which enhance our efficiency and help us to comply with the ever more challenging environmental regulations," added Rychly.
DNV GL explains that expert systems at the fleet performance centres can monitor incoming vessel data from customers using the ECO Insight platform in order to provide quality control of the data and offer suggestions on potential improvement levers.
The launch of the fleet performance centres is said to be the first building block of the new ECO Insight 2.0, which is set to be released in August 2017.
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