United Heavy Lift, a provider of for heavy lift, breakbulk, and project cargo services, has confirmed the deployment of Syroco’s weather routing platform on 11 of its 19 heavy lift vessels.
Leveraging weather and sea data, Syroco creates a digital twin of the vessel and incorporates machine learning to support crews in planning their voyages by finding the optimal route, taking into account operating constraints such as desired arrival time and the seakeeping parameters of the laden vessel.
After departure, the software updates the route as often as necessary to account for the evolution of weather conditions and any change in schedule.
Following an initial pilot phase on three vessels, United Heavy Lift has decided to deploy the system on eleven of its 150-metre F900 Eco-Lifter class ships, each with a transport capacity of more than 15,000 tons.
“Given the diversity of cargo entrusted to us, no voyage is identical to another,” said Lars zum Felde from United Heavy Lift.
“The Syroco platform is versatile, using accurate digital twins that take into account specific seakeeping characteristics of the vessels, which vary greatly based on the load carried. During the pilot phase, we were able to significantly improve decision making, increase accuracy of performance predictions, and measure a reduction in fuel consumption.”
“Because the solution was proven more reliable than other routing tools used in the past, it generated strong adoption by our crews.”
