A recently agreed standard aimed at standardising hull and propeller performance claims is finally gaining ground.
According to Jotun, DNV GL and BIMCO, familiarity of ISO 19030 is growing in the industry, helping to raise awareness of the importance of a standardised and transparent hull and propeller performance monitoring approach.
DNV GL’s Business Development Coordinator, Tobias Gröger, told fathom news that while the impact of biofouling on fuel consumption is still underestimated, the new standard is “providing the opportunity to create awareness of hull and propeller monitoring, and transform old habits, attitudes and management styles into the new era of big data.”
“Change and transformation is now happening” he said, as DNV GL starts to see an increase in ship owners’ understanding of how hull and propeller performance monitoring can improve efficiencies. Gröger said that although measuring such performance has always been complex and hard to digest for ship owners, the new standard is helping to expose how this data can actually be used to boost performance.
BIMCO’s Manager of Maritime Technology & Regulation, Jeppe Juhl, also sees more familiarity among ship owners when it comes to talking about the standard. He told fathom news that as they start to recognise the benefits that a standardised approach can bring, they start to use it. “Although it may not happen tomorrow or the next day or the immediate future, there is evidence that people are starting to measure and will start to use the standard.”
Raising awareness of the ISO standard is also key to help ship owners understand other benefits of it they may not yet be aware of. One of these is its ability to be used to help implementation of the EU’s MV standard.
Stein Kjølberg, Global Sales Director of Hull Performance Solutions, Jotun, said that by implementing ISO 19030 and therefore gathering data on hull and propeller performance, “ship owners can see how much they could save or how much they can be in control of by using a particular system or technology.”
He said that if this data is then verified they have the tools to see where their savings could be and can also prove to the IMO that a plan of data collection and verification is in place. Even more so this can be used to gain “green points” at ports, to reduce costs and increase competitiveness.
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