Maritime software innovations presented to Singaporean clients

Singapore - “Advancements in maritime software for safe and efficient ship operations” was the subject of a GL Forum held last week in Singapore, receiving the interest of 30 registered participants. “Modern technologies play a central role in increasing competitiveness, improving efficiency and minimizing risk in shipping operations”, said Dr Torsten Buessow, head of GL Maritime Software, in his welcome address.

What innovations and trends are visible for effective ship and maintenance management was the content of the first presentation. Dr Buessow discussed developments towards software support for condition based maintenance and hull integrity management. He presented the GL HullManager as the latest development on the latter field, being able to support visual inspections and thickness measurement on an actual 3D model of the vessel.

How can we use hydrodynamics for safe and efficient ship operations was question answered in the second presentation by Dr Lars Gruenitz, Germanischer Lloyd’s Business Development Manager South East Asia. Advancements in computation power and many years of GL experience in validating hydrodynamic behaviour of vessels have been put into software support for navigating officers. Examples are the GL SeaScout for ship routing assistance and the ECO-Assistant for fuel efficient trim.

Each shipping company is producing large amounts of data by its operational, technical and commercial processes every day. How these can be used was addressed by Kevin Brunn, Sales Manager of GL Maritime Software. Again, technological advancements now enable not only large corporations to make use of business intelligence solutions for reporting and analyzing data, KPIs and trends across their whole operations. The GL FleetAnalyzer makes this technology available for the shipping industry.