Problem
With the largest fleet in the world Maersk is the leading provider of ocean container transport. In 2014 Maersk set out to create a new system for data capture and vessel fuel consumption overview to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, and supporting their new and ambitious target of having net-zero CO2 emissions from operations by 2050. This is done by creating a basis for more detailed analysis and recommendations for senior officers as to how they can reduce fuel on their voyages. Furthermore to create an on-shore live overview of fuel consumption within and across vessel classes and to ultimately provide central feedback and recommendations for each vessel.
Solution
CIM was asked to provide a proof of concept on a fuel surveillance system that was to initially run on only a few vessels. The built system’s backbone was the collection and normalization of vessel data, the robust connectivity from vessels at sea back to a shore-based 3-tier front end – server – database system hosted in Azure.
The concept showed very promising and over the last years we have contributed to a fully-fledged system which includes:
Result
As a result of this project, Maersk operates a fully integrated IoT system from vessel data acquisition systems over connectivity systems to Azure hosted data, business logic, presentation, and decision recommendation. This has led to a significant reduction in fuel consumption and thereby CO2 footprint, as well as competitiveness of Maersk.
Anders Meister, Chief Sales Officer
