Australian ship vetting specialists Rightship have introduced their new ship vetting platform, Qi, to the Hellenic ship management community.
Famously, it was Rightship in partnership with the Carbon War Room that propelled the first A-G “fridge sticker” efficiency rating tool for ships into the industry. This powerful tool which allows anyone to ascertain the efficiency of a ship, newbuild or existing, via an easy to interpret A-G rating system is hosted on shippingefficiency.org. It allows the industry to make decisions on ship based on their efficiency and is being widely used by charterers, finance institutions and ports to pledge and act upon their demand for efficient ships.
However, vetting services in the day-to-day specialism through which Rightship is well known for in the industry.
Rightship’s CEO, Warwick Norman, explained the link between the between existing SVIS platform and the transition to new Qi platform to ship management attendees at a specialist forum held in Athens this week
User-friendliness of the latest updates is a key feature according to Norman. He says that this vital factor enables the user to monitor and set alerts for activity such as rating changes and benchmark between fleets.
During a live demonstration the Rightship CEO also gave a run through of the predictive analytics engine and provided an overview of the changes to the RightShip star rating concluding by providing insight on how operators s may improve vessels’ star rating.
Always at the forefront of what they do, the launch of their new platform didn’t omit the sustainability factor. It was David peel, Rightship’s Manager for Europe, Middle East & Africa that spoke around how to make sustainability pay, providing an overview of the GHG Rating and the reasoning behind charterers decision to use it to select ships and inviting operators to ensure that the data used for their fleets are up to date.
Peel also referred to DNV GL Methodology behind the GHG Rating and outlined the financial benefits of the GHG Rating as published by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (University of Manchester, UK).
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