Nor Lines and Rolls-Royce have signed a groundbreaking “Power-by-the-Hour” service agreement for the two vessels Kvitbjørn and Kvitnos which harnesses big data.
The big data is used to monitor, plan and perform maintenance and repairs on all the equipment it has installed on the cargo vessels.
Power-by-the-Hour is a completely new service from Rolls-Royce Marine and the agreement with Nor Lines is the first of its kind. The agreement means that Nor Lines is handing responsibility for service planning and performance back to the equipment’s supplier, Rolls-Royce. Nor Lines pays a fixed charge per hour of operation, per ship.
Rolls-Royce will monitor the equipment aboard each vessel on shore through the use of on-board sensors. It will be able to connect to the ship and carry out service activities remotely or, if necessary, send out a service engineer to do the job. The agreement also covers planned maintenance, while day-to-day maintenance aboard ship will be carried out by the shipping company itself.
Nor Lines took delivery of MS Kvitbjørn from the Tsuji shipyard in China in 2015. It was the first of two vessels ordered by the shipping line, and was the first Norwegian gas-powered coastal cargo vessel. The Kvitbjørn’s sister ship, MS Kvitnos, was delivered later the same year. Now, the vessels sail back and forth between ports in central Europe and along the Norwegian coast up to Hammerfest. The Kvitbjørn and the Kvitnos were also the first commercial vessels to be ordered with Rolls-Royce’s award-winning NVC 405 Environship design.
Landmark “Power-by-the-Hour” service agreement signed
