Three shipping companies under the Offen Group, CPO Container, CPO Tanker and CPO Bulker are to implement DNV GL’s e-learning course ‘Energy Efficiency On-Board’ to help identify and implement potential fuel savings.
The tool, developed by DNV GL’s Maritime Academy, enables users to become aware of ways to improve energy efficiency by changing crew behaviour and optimising how equipment is used on-board. It contains individual modules that outline various efficiency improvements looking at resistance, propulsion, main and auxiliary engines. Both practical and theoretical aspects are handled through the modules including trim and ballast optimisation, rudder and propeller savings and options for better route planning.
The course explains how and where the individual measures can be implemented, what impact the benefits of the improved processes have on ship operations and what the potential savings can be.
Offen Group and DNV GL’s Maritime Academy worked together to develop a customised solution that uses the basic modules of the e-learning tool to be complemented by the actual business processes and software applications used on board CPO vessels. This enables the daily routines to be documented in the course and implemented directly by the crew and by using the shipping company’s own internal systems it makes it more user-friendly for the crew.
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