Articles

Jun 30, 2021

How the Evolution of Weather Routing is Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Weather routing is a crucial service for the shipping industry to help shippers save time, fuel and maintain safety.

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Apr 12, 2021

Vessel Efficiency and Climate Change

To meet escalating IMO regulations on emissions, owners and operators are increasingly turning to data-driven fleet performance services to help fight climate change.

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Apr 12, 2021

Better together: Performance Centers play to team strength

StormGeo’s Fleet Performance Centers are out to enhance the performance of vessels by bringing out the best in crews, captains and shore personnel.

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Feb 22, 2021

Seasonal weather outlooks more in demand from clients

Will it be an El Niño or La Niña winter season? Or will it be somewhere in between? Answers to these questions are vital for...

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Oct 9, 2020

s-Suite ready for Sea Cargo Charter

Shipping industry giants commit to transparent reporting of shipping emissions in line with United Nations decarbonization targets. The Sea Cargo Charter is born.

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Sep 13, 2020

CEO Interview: Driving Maritime Efficiency and Safety

Søren Andersen, StormGeo CEO, sits down with Maritime Reporter to discuss trends within the shipping industry, how digitalization and weather routing information can help drive...

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Aug 14, 2020

Optimizing your ship's route for time

Should a vessel prioritize a route for time or fuel? There are many factors that go into choosing the ideal route.

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Aug 14, 2020

Optimizing your ship's route for fuel

Part two of our ship routing strategy series looks into how a heavier vessel might have different options than a lighter vessel in the face...

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Jul 14, 2020

Now, more than ever before, it’s time to consider integrating plausibility checks into onboard event data reports

Originally published in SSA Waves.

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Feb 18, 2020

Flettner Rotor Sails for Ship Propulsion

As the shipping industry transitions into an era of greenhouse gas emission mitigation policies, a number of sustainable technologies are being deployed to keep vessels...

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Bridge in Hong Kong and Container Cargo freight ship

Nov 8, 2019

Two Ways to Optimize Fuel Consumption Ahead of IMO 2020

From January 1, 2020, the limit for sulphur in fuel oil used onboard ships operating outside designated emission control areas will be reduced from 3.

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Sep 25, 2019

Why Douglas Sea State 3 Should be Eliminated from Good Weather Clauses

Sir Percy Douglas (1876 - 1939) In 1920, Sir Percy Douglas created the Douglas Sea Scale to describe the nature of ocean waves as an observer....

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Sep 5, 2019

Understanding the Danger Area Around a Tropical Cyclone

For example, maritime transport in the South China Sea was greatly disrupted by Typhoon Mangkhut in September 2018.

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Aug 28, 2019

Tips on Maritime Disputes and Arbitration from a Barrister

The vast majority of maritime arbitration can be managed from your desk, by email, and with the help of the right specialists (experts and maritime...

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Jul 30, 2019

What Shippers in the Western Pacific Can Expect this Typhoon Season

As the 2019 Western Pacific Tropical Cyclone season gets underway, below is a summary of what’s happened so far this year, and what we can...

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Jun 26, 2019

Monitoring Cylinder Oil Consumption Can Produce 4–7% Savings

Cylinder oil consumption monitoring is one of the main drivers for fleet performance management.

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Jun 26, 2019

ECO Insight hull degradation computation method goes beyond ISO 19030 standard

Only a proper computation allows a shipping company to go away from current practices, i. e.

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Jun 12, 2019

Eliminating the Guesswork for Mariners

Shore-based weather services have been available to mariners since the early 1950s.

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May 27, 2019

How Weather Insight Helps Owners Keep Their Vessels Safe and In Top Condition

Motion sickness due to adverse weather conditions not only threatens crew safety and comfort, it also impacts their ability to operate and maintain a vessel.

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May 24, 2019

Masters Win When Artificial and Human Intelligence Are Combined for Routing

With so many of today’s shipping operations automated, there is a tendency to take what the computer states as the absolute truth.

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May 20, 2019

Charterers score in the game of Required Time of Arrival (RTA)

Managing and hedging risk, while keeping an eye on cost, is what the chartering game is all about.

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May 2, 2019

The Effects of Tropical Cyclones on Shipping

All too often when watching the evening news, we may hear of a tropical storm raging in the open ocean but far away from land.

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Apr 25, 2019

Why Routing Advisory is Crucial to Every Captain

During the last 15 years, meteorology has made remarkable progress in terms of forecast accuracy, directly impacting the shipping sector and more specifically, route planning.

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Apr 4, 2019

Route Planning for Different Ship Types and Speeds

This trade route is sailed by many ship types including tankers, bulkers and reefers / Ro-Ro’s.

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Feb 19, 2019

StormGeo and DNV GL Create Fleet Performance Management Powerhouse

The integration of DNV GL’s ECO Insight and Navigator Insight solutions with StormGeo’s FleetDSS and ship reporting solutions will ultimately result in a product that...

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Jan 31, 2019

Is Weather Routing Really Worth It?

Although safety of crew, vessel and cargo are the most important elements of any voyage, fuel savings is also a key deliverable expected from weather...

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Nov 29, 2018

What is holding back digitalisation on the bridge?

Vast numbers of vessel navigators are not using digital navigation and route optimisation to their fullest because of the challenges of implementing and using the...

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Oct 24, 2018

Clarifying Charterparty Contracts for Dispute Resolution

Wording is everything when it comes to maritime disputes, especially those involving speed and fuel consumption.

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Sep 28, 2018

Typhoon Trami’s Acute Impact on the Shipping Industry

Safety is paramount when a vessel is sailing in the vicinity of a large typhoon like Trami.

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Sep 27, 2018

How Will Ship Routing Look in Fifteen Years?

Thought Leader and VP of Shipping Products, Mike O'Brien, looks into the future of the shipping industry to discuss how advancing technologies such as increased...

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Aug 30, 2018

Advanced Seakeeping: The Answer to Container Loss at Sea

Estimates for the number of containers lost vary from a couple of hundred each year, all the way to 10,000.

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Aug 2, 2018

Voyage Routing Decisions Made Simpler and Safer with Weather Services

StormGeo and Seatrade Maritime News discuss the two major factors that generate waves and are dangerous to a ships: tropical cyclones and frontal passages, as...

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Jun 19, 2018

Sustainability in Shipping: How the IMO DCS is Encouraging Companies to Go Greener

In March 2018, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) put into effect a Data Collection System (DCS) that gives shipping companies a better understanding of where...

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Feb 27, 2018

The Safe and Unsafe Semicircles of a Storm

While winter is still raging in the northern hemisphere and summer gradually ending in the southern hemisphere, it is never an inappropriate time to be...

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Jan 30, 2018

Q&A with our Weather Studies Department

There are seemingly countless ways in which weather and other environmental parameters affect the world of shipping.

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Dec 29, 2017

Finding your optimal route

Ships sailing the route from the Mediterranean Sea to northern Europe, and vice-versa, face the Bay of Biscay and the decisions for crossing the region...

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Dec 28, 2017

How StormGeo's Special Vessel team is assisting the Rowegains

StormGeo is helping to support the Rowegians for their transatlantic row.

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Oct 15, 2017

What You Need to Know About Winter Monsoons

This year however, there is another element to be aware of.

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Oct 11, 2017

Douglas Sea State 3 – London Arbitration Award

In this case, for which StormGeo provided Optimum Ship Routing, a Voyage Performance Report and follow-up support, the vessel’s description contained the following quote:

"WITHIN THE...

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Jun 26, 2017

Understanding Tropical Cyclones

Understanding Winds Associated with Tropical Cyclones and the "logic" of tropical cyclone tracks

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Mar 16, 2017

The Panama Canal: Will You Need Just-in-Time Arrival?

Construction of the Panama Canal

The Panama Canal is one of mankind’s great achievements, as it was created in a time when such construction projects relied...

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Nov 18, 2016

StormGeo Winter Webinar

If you missed it earlier this month, StormGeo hosted its first webinar: "Winter is Coming; 5 Tips to Ensure Safe and Efficient routes this Winter.

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Oct 25, 2016

Hurricane Matthew Aftermath: Two Stories that Affected Coastal Routings

However, the problem may not just be the next port that a ship is going to, but it could be 2-3 ports down the line...

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Oct 17, 2016

Connected Ships & Cyber security

The connected ship is something we all know is moving forward with a great deal of momentum.

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Sep 29, 2016

The Winter Monsoons

An example of this can be seen on the voyages up from Singapore to China/Korea/Japan, where the delays during a voyage can be extensive without...

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Aug 30, 2016

The Engine of the StormGeo data flow

The group’s data scientists’ main responsibilities include downloading global model data from various sources, running and developing in-house models and converting incoming data to formats...

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Jul 27, 2016

Special Considerations during Tropical Storm Season

The challenge of providing advice to avoid severe weather conditions leads to more time consuming voyages and in depth report analysis keep staff busy.

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May 27, 2016

Ship Routing: Winter in the Southern Hemisphere Affects Trade Routes

As the madness of the winter season turns its attention from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere, we expect to see changing weather that can...

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Mar 6, 2014

Route Spotlight

A series of very intense storms have swept across the North Atlantic Ocean during the first half of this year bringing periods of strong gale...

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Feb 1, 2014

Puerto Rico's ECA Zone

On 01 January 2014 a new evolution in the North American Emission Control Area (ECA) came into force.

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StormGeo Shipping launches s-Planner Publications

An evolution of the successful NaviTab, s-Planner | Publications is a flexible solution that enables customers to have access to NaviTab software from a Windows...

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