Digitalization of the Bunker Industry Has Been Delayed for Too Long: Toyota Tsusho
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Tuesday March 9, 2021 Digital products may be able to increase the efficiency of the bunker industry. File Image / Pixabay Coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and changing working practices to adapt to it have led to the bunker putting off its much-needed push towards digitalization, according to
Japan s Toyota Tsusho. Amid the rising necessity for workstyle reforms and the building of non-contact and non-face-to-face logistics systems toward productivity improvement and the maintenance and strengthening of international competitiveness, the delay of digitalization in the bunkering industry has become an issue, the company said in a statement on its website last week.
StormGeo Launches New Product Optimising Ships Power Output for Weather Conditions
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Tuesday March 9, 2021 Norwegian weather analysis firm
StormGeo has developed a new service aiming to optimise ships power output in varying weather conditions to improve fuel efficiency. The firm s new
Strategic Power Routing service aims to increase fuel efficiency and cut emissions without compromising arrival windows, StormGeo said in an emailed statement on Tuesday. When a vessel meets adverse weather conditions, such as high significant waves, strong wind, and currents, it must output more power and thus consume more fuel to maintain its speed and revolutions per minute (RPM), the company said.
The port authority has co-financed the SAMOA 2 project in conjunction with 17 other port authorities, developing "personalised systems for consulting and exploiting oceanographic and meteorological information."
Bunker One Offers Live Streaming of Bunkering Operations, May Help Avoid Disputes
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Monday March 1, 2021 Marine fuel supplier
Bunker One is allowing some of its customers to view live video streaming of their ship being bunkered to bring more transparency to the process. Buyers taking deliveries via Bunker One s barge the
Amak Swan can now view a live video of the operation, or view the recording for up to
45 days afterwards, a company representative told
Ship & Bunker by email.
Baltic, delivering bunkers to ships in Danish and The service enables flexible and transparent bunkering by digitalising the process, the company representative said.