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November 2010 www.marinelink.com 87 Applied Weather Technology launched GlobalView, a new fleet management system that combines AWT’s ship rout- ing services and software with Google Earth technology to give fleet managers a more visual, easy-to-use and powerful system for enhancing the safety of ships and crew, reducing fuel consumption and curbing carbon emissions. “We believe GlobalView to be the first fleet management system to utilize Google Earth technology—this brings a significant innovation to ship routing technology,” said Skip Vaccarello, presi- dent and CEO for AWT. “With Google Earth, GlobalView makes it much easier for fleet managers to protect vessels and crew and identify more opportunities to reduce fuel consumption and curb carbon emissions.” GlobalView literally gives fleet man- agers a “global view” of the locations of their companies’ vessels and makes it easy to access important weather and ship-routing data about their current voy- ages. Fleet managers can see in an in- stant, all in one place, information that could have otherwise taken hours to gather from many sources. Vessels appear on the globe as color-coded icons that can be customized to provide fleet managers with alerts regarding ship performance, fuel consumption/carbon emissions, weather conditions, ETAs or other fac- tors. A click on the vessel icon gives a summary of the current voyage and sea state. With one glance at GlobalView, fleet managers can identify which ships have alerts warning of excessive fuel con- sumption. Fleet managers can also view opportunities to reduce vessels’ fuel con- sumption and carbon emissions with AWT’s recommended routes. They can see Captains’ intended routes and quickly compare them to routes being recom- mended by AWT for optimal safety, fuel savings and carbon emissions reductions. Alerts can help fleet managers to proac- tively work with Captains during voyages to take advantage of more fuel-efficient routes. AWT estimates its routing serv- ices and BonVoyage (BVS) marine voy- age optimization software save the shipping industry approximately 365,000 metric tons (MT) of fuel annually. This translates to potential cost savings of more than $166m per year and reduction of 1,162,000 MT in CO2 emissions, the equivalent of removing 258,000 cars from the road. Avoiding Regions Known for Pirate Activity GlobalView also provides historical pi- rate attack data so that the information is readily available to fleet managers. With GlobalView, fleet managers can access information about pirate activity showing all the regions where their vessels are traveling. GlobalView shows details about actual and attempted pirate attacks, as well as suspicious vessel data, with time and location details. Fleet managers can filter the data by attack type and are provided color coded icons to easily iden- tify where attacks have occurred. The data empowers fleet managers to work together with Captains and AWT to help ships avoid regions known for pirate ac- tivity and identify optimal alternative routes. (Photo Cour tesy AWT) Fleet Management System Using Google Earth
