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    Port Call Optimisation

    Just in time solution by Wärtsilä - Navi-Port

    Connect ships to ports and enable Just-in-time arrivals. Now with Wärtsilä Navi-Port.

    Overview

    Wärtsilä Navi-Port is the first commercially available digital platform that connects a ship’s navigation system to the port and enables Just-in-time arrivals. Navi-Port facilitates accurate arrival times between ports and ships, enabling vessels to adjust speed to achieve just-in-time arrival automatically. Dynamic, real-time data sharing improves coordination allowing for modifications to course and speed should conditions at port change during a voyage. For ports, Navi-Port enables a better and more efficient port and terminal operations planning while also reducing congestion and the risk of collisions.  

    Key benefits

    • Reduce the required speed to a comfortable and necessary level, save fuel and reduce CO2 emission. 
    • Higher fuel efficiency of cargo transportation leads to lower freight costs. 
    • Priority service in port's operations.
    • Reduce maintenance operations. 

    Key features

    • Increase safety with better coordination of vessel traffic and removal of traffic congestions. 
    • Reduce local area CO2 emissions and noise pollution with decreased anchorage time.
    • Get full transparency on the ships arriving at the port and related ETA updates. 
    • Get a capability to communicate to ships adjusting recommendations on the requested time of arrival (RTA). 
    • Know in advance when the ship is coming to ensure all port services are ready to accept the ship, therefore, optimising needed resources. 
    Why Navi-Port

    Save time, effort, and fuel with one software update.

     

    Currently, there are more than 4 million port calls made each year. And about half of them are non-linear and have to be coordinated manually. That is not only a mamoth management task, delays due to these processes make up around 15% of the entire shipping's fuel consumption — a massive loss of time, efforts, money and fuel — which can be easily saved with just one software update: Navi-Port.

    Stories

     

    Navi-Port winning Port & Terminal Digital Technology Award

    Riviera Maritime Media's podcast, in which our very own Bruce Mills (AFNI) reflects on the recent success of Wärtsilä Voyage's Navi-Port, winning Port & Terminal Digital Technology Award by Seatrade Maritime in association with Lloyd's List, and sheds light on how adopting digital port calls is a ‘low-hanging fruit’ in shipping’s decarbonisation drive.

     
    Case study

    Wärtsilä Navi-Port in action at Port of Hamburg

    Together with our project partners Carnival Maritime and the Hamburg Vessel Coordination Center (HVCC), Wärtsilä Voyage successfully implemented and tested the Navi-Port solution for just-in-time sailing. We were able to seamlessly exchange data between the ship and the shore under real-sea conditions and achieved optimal port arrival. Navi-Port's data-sharing interface is not only smooth but also has been approved in principle by Bureau                             Veritas for meeting the classification society’s cybersecurity requirements. Here’s what our partners have to say about Navi-Port.

     
    Webinar

    Wärtsilä Navi-Port

    How to enable just-in-time arrivals and eliminate wasteful practises in shipping operations? The marine industry is changing. The competitive environment within the industry and regulator requirements are creating the need to address the industry’s established ways of working with a new set of criteria. One of the main sources of inefficiencies, or waste, in maritime transportation is the unnecessarily excessive speeds at which ships sail to arrive at port only to have to wait for a berthing slot.

     
    Webinar

    Navi-Port: The perfect time for Just-in-Time

    Navi-Port facilitates accurate planning of port calls 7+ days ahead and helps to optimise scheduling and coordination of port services. Due to real-time-data exchange, Navi-Port helps the port to plan safer port-calls, even in heavy traffic areas, and sets new standards for modern digital data exchanges between ships and ports.

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    Case study

    Wärtsilä Voyage x Anglo-Eastern. Future of Shipping

    Data is holding every stakeholder individually accountable for their environmental impact. But data can also show the ways to create more efficiencies that lead to greener operations. From words to actions: watch our latest video to find out how Anglo-Eastern made sound decision making and shared knowledge a reality with Wärtsilä Voyage’s innovative technology. “We have just scratched the surface of what we can do once everything is connected, and everyone is working on the same information in real-time,” says Carsten Ostenfeldt, COO at Anglo-Eastern.  We share our partner's excitement about opening the door of possibilities since the key to it – collaboration across the industry – becomes more visible than ever.

    Additional information
    How it all works?

    Navi-Port connects ports and vessels to enable seamless coordination. En route, the vessel sends a Planned Time of Arrival (PTA) to the port. If port conditions are incompatible, a new Requested Time of Arrival (RTA) is sent back to the ship. On the ship, Wärtsilä FOS recalibrates the appropriate sailing route and speed as per the RTA and relays it to the ship’s navigation system, where the captain can accept it. On approval, speed is auto-adjusted to the new arrival time. The changed ETA is shared with the port in real-time. This way, the ship arrives at berth just in time, saving fuel and reducing emissions.

       

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