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23/01/2025 9:25 am
HiFleet Route Optimisation optimises shipping routes by incorporating weather and sea conditions forecasts (wind, waves, current), reducing the impact of meteorological stall and current drag on vessel navigation, while leveraging favourable wind and current to improve fuel efficiency.
The features of Route Optimisation include:
- No modifications to the vessel’s structure,
- Immediate implementation in vessel operations
- Improves ship’s operational carbon intensity indicator (CII)
- Reduce a vessel’s consumption by 2%-5% per voyage
Our Advantages:
- HiFleet Weather Forecast Data Support: 15-day forecast data for weather and sea conditions, updated four times daily; over 1 billion data points daily.
- HiFleet Proprietary Data and Algorithms: Global ship historical trajectories, routing algorithms from any ship position to destination, and AI-based wind/wave stall models.
- HiFleet Customer Service Team Support: Comprehensive support throughout the entire process.
HiFleet Route Optimisation is easy to use - users can upload routes quickly via email or HiFleet portal, and choose automatic or manual route planning. Once the route is imported, users can optimise the route with one click, download all route information with one click. Users also have the freedom to edit the route.
Users who are interested to try our Route Optimisation function may contact our sales team via email zhangzhongrui@hifleet.com or WhatsApp.
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23/01/2025 9:33 am
Case Study
Our client, a shipping company has successfully achieved the goal of cutting voyage time and saving fuel by adopting route optimisation for multiple ships and voyages.
Vessel profile: Bulk carrier, length 289 meters, width 45.05 meters, summer deadweight tonnage 171,681 tons, empty on this voyage, maximum draft 8.5 meters.
Route: Nantong Port → Singapore Anchorage, original voyage distance was about 2271 nautical miles.
Optimisation Results: After adopting the optimised route, the marine superintendent confirmed that the ship sailed at an average speed of about 1 knot faster due to favourable currents. The actual time saved was approximately 4 hours, and around 5.5 tonnes of heavy fuel were saved (the vessel's daily fuel consumption during a ballast voyage is approximately 33 tonnes).
Figure 1: Comparing the planned route against the optimised route
Figure 2: Comparing the actual route (orange line with arrows) against the optimised route. Note that the vessel had closely followed the optimised route recommended by HiFleet which resulted in significant savings.
21/03/2025 12:29 pm
HiFleet Route Optimisation - Actual Case