Digital transformation - Case studies

Neste, the provider of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), has set up a supply of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ at Cologne Bonn Airport. By doing so, Neste is helping to meet increasing levels of demand from air freight and corporate customers at Cologne Bonn Airport. AFS, Germany's provider of aviation fueling services, supports Neste in serving this market. The first flight fuelled with Neste MY SAF was a cargo flight in early June operated by ASL Airlines on behalf of Amazon. SAF f...

Iberdrola has awarded Indar, part of the Ingeteam Group, the contract to modernise two generating units for the 132-MW Torrejón hydroelectric plant, on the Tajo River, in Spain. Variable speed vertical motor-generators As part of the modernisation work, the plant will be converted to full power variable-speed operation As part of the modernisation work, the plant will be converted to full power variable-speed operation. For the Torrejón hydropower plant, Indar’s contract c...

HENSOLDT UK is pleased to announce the supply of radar sensor suites consisting of Kelvin Hughes Mk11 S and X Band SharpEye radar systems to the South African Navy (SAN) for three Multi Mission Inshore Patrol Vessels, built by the Damen Shipyards Cape Town (DSCT), South Africa. SharpEye Mk11 radars HENSOLDT UK is pleased to supply the South African Navy with further SharpEye radars" These vessels, SAN MMIPVs, will protect the coasts of the Republic of South Africa from threats, such as piracy...

Ocean Infinity, a globally renowned marine robotics and deep sea data acquisition company, is implementing ShipManager fleet management software for 17 new robotic ships and additional autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Ocean Infinity will implement ShipManager’s modules for planned maintenance, procurement, and business intelligence for its advanced fleet of uncrewed, low-emission vessels for capturing ocean data. Securing reliability We know DNV has validation in the market and Sh...

The customer is among the world’s foremost diversified multinational entertainment and media groups. The company runs a global online store that sells entertainment merchandise, toys, collectables, household items, clothes and other products. The challenge The customer was looking to expand its share in markets outside its core bases in North America and Europe The customer was looking to expand its share in markets outside its core bases in North America and Europe. Online shopping has...

Retrofit of the soon to be obsolete old analogue Woodward 2301A LSSC (Load Share and Speed Control) with the state-of-the-art Digital Woodward 2301E LSSC. The new digital control has the same fit and functionality but with additional features to improve performance. Digital controller 2301E The analogue 2301A LSSC is commonly used on supply vessels such as this, and in many other applications especially where isochronous load sharing between generators is desired. The 2301A was originally desi...

As part of the company’s fleet improvement plan, Wan Hai Lines has confirmed an order of 4 container vessels with Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. The contract was signed on 31st May 2021. The contract includes four (4) 13,100Teu container vessels. These new vessels will start taking delivery in the 2nd quarter of 2023 respectively. Currently, Wan Hai Lines operates a vessel fleet of 83 owned and 62 chartered. This new shipbuilding contract is the company’s latest fleet upsizing p...

The Norwegian Coastal Administration is a national agency for coastal management, maritime safety and preparedness against acute pollution. Their vision is to make the Norwegian coast and waters the safest and purest in the world. This includes, among other goals, enabling safe navigation and a clean environment whilst maintaining quality throughout all operations and always being present when needed. Now, they are looking for digital tools to make their operations more data-driven. Enhanc...

Salvamento Maritimo, the maritime search and rescue (SAR) agency that operates under the Spanish Ministry of Development, recently took delivery of two new rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) in a series from Portuguese builder Vanguard Marine. Rigid inflatable boats Each RIB is equipped with four Ullman Dynamics Biscaya jockey seats with suspension systems and a custom-made aluminum console. The deck is covered with anti-slip material on the entire walking surface and is designed to accept diff...

On the first Wednesday of May, the first of 14 Blue Water trucks arrived at Parken Stadium (Danish national stadium) in Copenhagen. It was time to replace the grass on the great football field, and Blue Water’s Reefer Road team was assigned the main part of the transport of the new turf.  The 5,258 square metres of turf were transported from Italy through Europe to Parken Stadium. To keep the good condition during the entire transport, which took two days, Blue Water’s reefer t...

Infor has announced that ASRY, the Arabian Gulf's renowned maritime repair and fabrication facility based in Bahrain, has signed a contract with Infor to implement a new state-of-the-art, facility-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise, to spearhead its digital transformation. ASRY (Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Yard) ASRY (Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Yard), which was established in 1977, handles the repair and conversion of ships, rigs and n...

From February to April 2021, Blue Water handled the biggest airfreight and charter project ever on behalf of its client Atea Denmark.  The task included the transport of 2,350,000 pieces of IT equipment from Denmark to Santo Domingo within two months. The 555 tonnes / 3,000 cbm were moved in three lots on commercial flights and 11 chartered aircraft. Also, personnel of Atea Denmark was on board.  Cooperation and teamwork The project involved many departments within Blue Water, and i...

HMM has announced that it plans to transport any containers carrying the COVID-related medical devices and emergency relief supplies bound for India, contributing to overcoming the extreme situation in the country. Medical devices for COVID-hit India The medical devices mainly include medical oxygen supplies, such as medical grade oxygen, oxygen tank, oxygen bottles, oxygen concentrators, steel pipes for manufacturing oxygen cylinders and associated equipment. HMM has decided to impose merely...

The crew of a nine year-old container ship, which is equipped with a Wartsila 6RT-FLEX82C main engine, observed exhaust gas blow-by on cylinder no.5, during normal operation and could not increase the load above 35%. The cylinder liner had 22,452 running hours and the crew suspected the cylinder liner was excessively worn and needed to be replaced. Liner replacement on cylinder no.5 The customer requested Goltens to attend and replace the liner with an onboard spare The customer requested G...

Having completed successful ballast water retrofitting of one of its LNG Carriers, Goltens was once again contracted by one of the world’s largest LNG owners and operators to complete similar turnkey retrofits on two 15-year old, 83,000 DWT LNG carriers. Retrofit on large vessels While Goltens is a globally renowned company in ballast water retrofits, having completed well over 850 retrofit projects, however, designing and executing the retrofit on such large vessels, with one of the wor...

TruWeather Solutions (TruWeather), a globally renowned micro weather data and analytics company, and Spire Global, Inc. (Spire), a global provider of space-based data and analytics solutions, have announced that they have signed a letter of commitment, to support TruWeather’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant with NASA. This commitment enhances previous agreements that align the strengths of both companies, with the goal of enabling safer and more reliable Unmanned Aerial Sy...

AG EMS (German AKTIEN-GESELLSCHAFT ‘EMS’), has announced the imminent entry into service of its new, high-speed catamaran ferry, the 450-seat ‘Nordlicht II’. The newbuilding vessel features two highly-efficient MAN 16V175D-MM engines with a power output of 2 × 2,960 kW, giving a maximum speed of 35 knots. Nordlicht II vessel The vessel was constructed in Indonesia, by the Penguin Shipyard Group (Penguin International Limited), where it was already largely complete...

Royal Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel - HMS Medway underwent a successful planned maintenance period, delivered by BAE Systems and Royal Navy Ship Staff in Naval Station - Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida, from December 2020 through January 2021. BAE Systems' maintenance support Repairs and maintenance are delivered wherever in the world they are operationally required Under the Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) contract, BAE Systems provides whole ship availability management service, to all of...

Rederij Doeksen B.V. (also known as Koninklijke Doeksen), is a Dutch shipping company that operates ferry services between Harlingen and the Wadden Islands of Vlieland and Terschelling, in the Netherlands. Founded in 1908, the global corporation transports hundreds of people and vehicles, both to and from the Wadden Islands, on a daily basis. Rederij Doeksen – MAH partnership Robust seafaring training is compulsory for all the crew operating at Rederij Doeksen Due to the nature of the...

As part of the agreement with NASA, to support the NiSAR and PACE satellites, Kongsberg Satellite Services - KSAT has installed two large Ka-band antennas, in Svalbard and Punta Arenas, in Chile. The new 11m antenna at Svalbard is antenna number 100 on the plateau, marking yet another milestone for the world’s largest ground station. In order to provide commercial Ka-band downlink services to the NASA Near Earth Network (NEN) for NiSAR and PACE missions, Kongsberg Satellite Services - KSA...

Teknotherm is excited to announce that the company has been awarded the contract to finalise the HVAC systems for RoPax ferry - HONFLEUR. Back in 2017, Brittany Ferries had placed the order for the HONFLEUR vessel, at the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellshaft’s (FSG) shipyard in Germany. However, when FSG went bankrupt in 2019, its Norwegian owner, Siem Shipping (Siem Group) signed a contract with Fosen Yard, in Norway, to complete the project. Teknotherm gets HVAC contract for HONFLEUR HON...

The customer, a southeast Asian seafood exporter, is a leading supplier of shrimp.   Shrimp farming is a lucrative 19.1 billion USD international industry with time-tested techniques, processing methods and supply chains. Containers of shrimp worth upwards of 200,000 USD travel safe and trouble-free around the world thanks to state-of-the-art refrigerated containers or Reefers. Challenge Customers needed to find a better way to manage their Bills of Lading to reduce the risk of...

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has confirmed an order for 10 × 8G95ME-GI10.5 engines, in connection with the building of 10 × 15,000-teu container ships for Seaspan Corporation. The vessels are scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2023 and will immediately after begin 12-year charters for ZIM Lines (ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd), the international shipping group that serves the US East Coast trade. Order for ME-GI engines This is just the latest order that the well-...

MAN Energy Solutions has won the order to supply the main engines for two new building live-fish carriers, currently under construction at the Cemre shipyard in Turkey. The first – a 2,200 cubic-metre vessel for Seivåg Shipping AS – will be powered by 2 × MAN 12V175D-MEM Tier III engines, while the second – an 8,000 cubic-metre vessel for Mowistar AS – will be powered by 4 × MAN 12V175D-MEM Tier III engines. This latter carrier, with a deadweight of ~12...

The KONGSBERG AUVs are scheduled for delivery this year, with the USVs following in the late summer/early autumn of 2022. The AUVs are depth-rated to 1,500m and are equipped with a powerful payload for environmental monitoring and seabed mapping. The four autonomous vessels will be equipped with KONGSBERG’s new Blue Insight, a cloud-based ecosystem designed to facilitate remote instrument operation, data visualisation and smart management of oceanographic and meteorological data. Adv...

VSTEP extends its international footprint by signing a deal with a high school in Burgas. Burgas is a picturesque city in Bulgaria on the Southern Black Sea Coast. The city’s hemisphere is surrounded by large bodies of water. This requires an incredibly strong transportation system across the sea and lake channels to ensure both people and goods can travel safely and efficiently. Inland navigational skills As such, one of the renowned high schools in Burgas was searching for a hig...

The new 5,000m3 LFC will be built to KM’s new NVC 390 design, with a clear focus on reduced emissions and enhanced sustainability. This is reflected by the comprehensive KONGSBERG equipment package, which includes Promas propulsion, generators, thrusters, electrical systems and automation. To date, KM has designed eight LFCs for Sølvtrans, with six previously built or under construction at Myklebust Verft. With its headquarters in Ålesund on Norway’s west coast, S&oslas...

Ocean Infinity, the next generation subsea marine robotics company, has been awarded a contract with ExxonMobil, for high-resolution Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) geophysical and geotechnical data acquisition, within the Stabroek block, in offshore Guyana. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) This approach of autonomous operations at scale is a more sustainable way of operating at sea Ocean Infinity will simultaneously deploy their advanced AUVs in water depths of between 70 metr...

Ocean Infinity, the next generation subsea marine robotics company, has been awarded a contract with ExxonMobil, for high-resolution Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) geophysical and geotechnical data acquisition, within the Stabroek block, in offshore Guyana. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) This approach of autonomous operations at scale is a more sustainable way of operating at sea Ocean Infinity will simultaneously deploy their advanced AUVs in water depths of between 70 metr...

PARAT Halvorsen AS will replace a 30-year-old PARAT vertical combined oil-fired/exhaust gas steam boiler, Coned type, with a brand new PARAT boiler with exactly the same outer dimensions, modified hatches and a new modern oil-fired burner. They have also upgraded the control panel and installed a touch screen for easy boiler control. San Discovery San Discovery was designed by Fiskerstrand and built by Sterkoder in Norway, in 1992 San Discovery was designed by Fiskerstrand (Fiskerstrand Verft...