Samsung Heavy Industries has developed SORAS (Samsung Optimum Routing Assessment System), a system that will give safer routing for ships while also saving fuel. It took 3 years to develop SORAS and is currently undergoing evaluation tests onboard a container ship. A simulation carried out on a 103,000DWT tanker sailing from Tokyo to Los Angeles, the distance traveled was is increased by 70 km to 7,754 km compared with existing shortest route. However, sailing time is reduced from 297 hours to 294 hours resulting in a fuel savings of 15 tonnes. Samsung claims that the optimum route selected by SORAS reduced fuel consumption amounting to a saving of $10,000 on a trans-pacific round trip.
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Using an abundant, if toxic, resource to power the maritime fleet. A mature future fuel already in use - but will it become dominant? Numerous NGOs protested against the IMO earlier this year putting biofuels in its Global Fuel Standard, but the “fuel versus food” debate seems to have been solved by deriving fuels from waste. Technically the cleanest possible fuel source available to the maritime world and one that has the longest history, dating back to the 1950s. Why is it not in common, non-military use? LNG is currently the most popular lower carbon fuel, but with bio and e-LNG it could move beyond its current transition fuel status supported by extensive existing infrastructure. Read More Read More Read More Read More Read More
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