Shipping & ports
Managing the impact of weather on your marine transport
Managing the impact of weather on your marine transport is a crucial aspect of your operations & safety at sea.
This is not only of importance for shipping companies, for analysing ship performance and determine the ETA, but also for port service companies, for optimising available port resources like pilot services, time slot, cranes, trains, trucks, cargo & storage. A goo understanding of the impact of adverse weather on your operations is crucial to mitigate risks and adjust the planning in time.
Our accurate, route specific weather information helps shipping companies & port operators to better act upon the weather conditions affecting their operations.
ETA Monitoring Service (EMS) can provide a valuable tracking service—an indispensable tool for keeping track of a vessel’s location and monitoring its Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA). The vessel’s ETA is continuously updated throughout the voyage as new weather or position data is received. Vessels being tracked can be included in the EMS Daily Fleet Status report so you can quickly see if the vessel is falling behind schedule or encountering bad weather.
Ports & terminals - For (pre)feasibility and design studies of new terminals or expansion of existing port facilities, we provide full environmental studies including design studies, operability analyses as well asfull spectral input data for detailed coastal / harbour models.
An overview of our services for Ports & Terminals is given below
Ship route support & analysis
Metocean forecast along route
ETA (Estmated time of arrival)
Hindcast (historical) data for route analysis
Extremes along routes for route planning
Metocean data & consultancy services for ports