Meteo Consult and ABB subsidiary Amarcon will supply110 Maersk Line container vessels with SPOS Seakeeping.
The Seakeeping plug-in is a feature within Meteo Group's weather routing software SPOS. With this plug-in the user can define vessel loading conditions and motion threshold values based on the input of Amarcon’s Octopus-Onboard.
Avoiding Areas with Maximum Motions
In the SPOS Seakeeping chart, areas can be displayed where motions are expected to exceed the threshold values. In the route optimisation, the motions are also calculated and the route optimisation will automatically avoid areas where maximum motions will be exceeded.
Weather Effects on Seakeeping Behaviour
With the Seakeeping plug-in the routing advice for a vessel is more precise and tailored to the individual vessel, because of the fact that not only environmental conditions like wind, currents and swell are taken into account, but the effect that these changing conditions have on the overall seakeeping behaviour of the vessel.
In the coming months the software will be rolled out on a minimum of 110 Maersk Line vessels.
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