The new Ship Data Center is designed to optimize vessel operations by centralizing data collection and analysis of shipboard systems.
Japanese ocean carrier Mitsui O.S.K. Line (MOL) will collaborate with a new maritime industry data hub by transmitting operating data from systems onboard container vessels in the hopes of developing industry-wide lessons on maintenance, efficiency, safety and pollution control, the company said.
Classification society Class NK opened the Ship Data Center in Tokyo in December to centralize data captured from shipboard systems and analyze results across all vessels instead of each carrier or vendor analyzing data on a ship-by-ship basis. Advancements in satellite communications technology make it possible to transmit large volumes of ship-related data in near-real time.
Centralization of such a so-called Big Data exercise, minimizes the cost and burden for all participants.
MOL is the first ocean carrier to participate in the trial of the Ship Data Center. Information from the voyage data recorder and data logger, among other systems, will be gathered.
Full operation of the Ship Data Center is scheduled for April.
In addition to optimizing ship operations and improving condition-based monitoring of machinery, the Data Center says it can also help the industry overcome current and emerging challenges.
The entry into force of the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) regulation by the European Union requires ship owners and operators to annually monitor, report and verify fuel consumption for vessels 5,000 gross tons or over which call at any EU port. Data collection will be required beginning Jan. 1, 2018. The Data Center plans to offer ship owners and operators a secure and neutral database in which to store and manage the vast amounts of fuel consumption data.
MOL, Class NK collaborate on Big Data project
