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Seminario ISCI OM&A – Mikael Rönnqvist

13:30-14:30 horas, Sala de Consejo piso 4 Beauchef 851.

Organiza: Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería

Expositor: Mikael Rönnqvist, Université Laval (Canadá)

True North Marine (TNM) is a Montreal based consulting company offering services on route selection and analysis to ocean-going vessels, operators and owners. The need for optimized routing has gained relevance in the age of JIT arrivals, fluctuating fuel costs and tightening emission standards. The efficient route requires a deep understanding of the interplay between fuel consumption, vessel speed and safety depending on the weather. Today, there are many high accuracy sources on ocean currents and seas and winds, the three primary weather elements that go towards route planning. Other important information that affects a voyage planning include among others; storm locations and movements and their historical tracks, wind speed and direction, sea currents, wave height and frequency. The weather condition is vital in the route planning. The IMO (International Maritime Organization) has implemented new regulations, as of January 1st 2020, requiring vessels to burn fuel with much lower sulphur content (drop from 3.5% to 0.5%) with anticipated effect that fuel costs for vessel operators will significantly rise. Hence, new vessel routes must better balance operational cost, fuel and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission cost, and weather-related safety issues. True North Marine is working together with Université Laval, HEC Montreal and UQTR (University Quebec Trois-Rivieres) in a project funded by IVADO, Prompt and MITACS to develop advanced analytics tools to support the planning process. More specifically, these tools allow analyzing many routes in order to determine the optimal speed / fuel consumption setting and best route option based on forecast weather data, historical weather data, vessel characteristics and data obtained from monitoring past performance of vessels. In this presentation, we provide an insight in the practical planning process and analytics tools developed so far to support the planners which will go towards more precise and dynamic routing.