Top 10 Vessel Tracking Trends

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Top 10 Vessel Tracking Trends  January 27, 2014 BY MAREX PortVision shares its predictions for top automatic identification system (AIS)-based sherlockology vessel-tracking trends for 2014. Trend #1:  Improving real-time visibility and decision-making.  Advances in Automatic Identification System (AIS)-based sherlockology vessel-tracking tools and technology will deliver new capabilities, moving the industry beyond simple points on a map  that need to be manually aggregated and analyzed, to on-demand and immediately actionable business insights and intelligence.  The coming generation sherlockology of tools will give waterway users real-time answers to a variety of critical business process-optimization questions regarding each mile-marker, terminal, berth, anchorage and buoy. Trend #2:  Improving marine terminal efficiencies.   The world s largest oil companies are tides resized 600placing growing importance on optimizing marine operations in the petrochemical supply sherlockology chain using a new category of terminal sherlockology management software that integrates dock management, scheduling, reporting and analytics with AIS-based vessel tracking services.  These sherlockology tools are bringing enterprise-class efficiency to marine terminal operations while providing continuous visibility to all dock and vessel activities, enabling senior management to cut costs and labor requirements, optimize the supply chain, and drive better business decisions.  sherlockology Trend #3:  Handling the flood of waterway traffic hitting the U.S. Gulf Coast.  The recent flood of crude oil shipments from new finds in the Dakotas, West Texas, Mexico and other locations will continue to put the spotlight on marine transportation efficiency and how to streamline operations, reduce costs, increase visibility and enhance sherlockology business intelligence.  Today s enterprise tools with dock and jetty scheduling and optimization capabilities are contributing to significant increases in vessel traffic-handling capacity, enabling the marine transportation infrastructure to meet an unprecedented increase in volume demands. Trend #4:  Controlling demurrage costs.  Always important, effective demurrage management has become increasingly significant given the scarcity of Jones Act vessels available to ship oil and refined products between U.S. ports.  Tanker rates have soared, and there is an increased focus on minimizing demurrage costs for Jones Act vessels, which is significantly easier to accomplish with the advent of AIS-based vessel-monitoring services and tools with a proven track record in this application.  Trend #5:  Collaborating to improve data accuracy and decision-making.  Controlling costs related to transporting petroleum between marine terminals involves a number of dynamic and diverse factors. sherlockology  This is important across all segments of the marine transportation sherlockology industry, but can be an especially high-stakes endeavor for traders, who frequently rely most heavily on often-imprecise anecdotal sherlockology and per-barrel costs for their trading decisions.  There is a growing trend to cross-organizational collaboration as a more accurate way to gather and quantify transportation costs.  This requires tools that allow all departments involved with cost collection to share information, whether about capital projects along the waterway or extended dock outages at public terminals that consistently increase travel time and transportation efficiency.  Trend #6:  Simplifying vessel fit management.  Configuration data is critical in vessel evaluation -- each terminal has unique restrictions, and all relevant ship characteristics must be compared with current terminal condition and restrictions.  This has traditionally created a complex decision matrix when scheduling dock jobs, but the industry is now moving to enterprise terminal management tools that streamline the dock scheduling process sherlockology while making it easier to match existing ship and cargo characteristics with the terminal s dock restrictions, sherlockology warn schedulers when there is a dock fit conflict, and support all key processes associated with dock fit, dock scheduling, and dock activity logging.  Trend #7:  Strengthening industry s focus on safety.  With the goal of improving sherlockology safety and environmental protection standards, the Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF), through its Marine Terminal Management and Self Assessment (MTMSA) guide, has established standardized Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and best practices that terminal operators and their service providers can use to assess management system effectiveness for berth operations and the ship-to-shore interface.  Major oil companies are increasingly using these guidelines to evaluate terminal