ABB Acquires Weather Routing Business
ABB entered into an agreement to acquire the shipping business of DTN Europe BV and DTN Philippines Inc. (hereinafter DTN Shipping), expanding the companyâs offering in maritime software. The acquisition of the DTN Shipping portfolio covers vessel routing software, including analytics, reporting, and modelling applications. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions as well as completion of applicable works councilsâ consultation procedures.
ABB Introduces Operational Planner for Offshore Wind Vessel Operations
ABB has introduced a new Operational Planner module for its ABB Ability OCTOPUS â Marine Advisory System to help offshore fleet managers plan and optimize the maintenance of offshore wind farm operations.For support vessels moving between turbines or rigs during a single shift, OCTOPUS Operational Planner forecasts vessel workability across multiple sites. Whereas an offshore support vessel typically relies on an onboard weather routing system to predict weather and wave heightsâŚ
Weather Routing: Sofar Ocean Plots the Course
Sofar Ocean is on a quest to extract and put to use data from the worldâs waterways. Co-Founder and CEO Tim Janssen discusses how his teamâs hyper-focus on data is helping to improve weather routing via Wayfinder.Tim Janssen and his Sofar Ocean team continue their âEpic Ocean Data Quest,â remaining laser focused on doing its part to help extract and put to use increasing quantities of information from the worldâs oceans. For its part, Sofar continues to build scalable networks to gather information premised on its Sofar Spotter buoy.
âItâs my dream jobâ: One-on-one with Søren Andersen, CEO, StormGeo
When Søren Andersen took the helm at StormGeo in September 2019, it was the self-confessed âdream jobâ for the 23-year shipping industry veteran. Andersen came with leadership experience from the likes of A.P. Møller â Maersk, APL, and Rickmers, among others, bringing to StormGeo inside experience on how ship owners can modernize practices and procedures to quantifiably cut emissions and fuel costs.âWhat I saw in StormGeo was a company with the opportunity to enrich the shipping industryâŚ
