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Simply smarter: Leading the way with Auto-Routeing

Last updated: 2023/02/23 at 12:45 PM
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When navigators talk, NAVTOR listens. The Norwegian maritime technology company has launched a breakthrough Auto-Routeing solution, addressing a major industry pain point and simplifying demanding tasks for busy bridge officers. Planning detailed routes can now be done at the touch of a button. NAVTOR’s Aslak Dirdal and Bþrge Hetland explain how


When you climb into your car it doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to get to your destination. Thanks to your smart phone, and/or smart vehicle, you can plot a desired location into whatever satellite navigation system you have and, voila, off you roll.

At sea, however, it’s a little more complicated.

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NAVTOR’s Auto-Routeing – pointing the way forwards for the industry.

“Well, for one thing, you have a lot more ‘roads’,” smiles NAVTOR’s Aslak Dirdal, one of the driving forces behind the development of the firm’s new Auto-Routeing solution. “There’s a huge number of variables and a great many decisions that have to be made. Plotting optimal routes can be a painstaking process, but obviously a crucial one.

“It’s something our customers have been dreaming of simplifying for at least the last decade
 if not more.”

NAVTOR – in touch with maritime innovation

Dirdal then sits back to demonstrate how Auto-Routeing, a subscription-based module on NAVTOR’s NavStation platform, works. He zooms in on an exact berth in the port of Southampton and then another in the Port of New York and New Jersey. Clicks a tab, and two seconds later a detailed berth-to-berth route (including voyage distance and duration) emerges. Simple as that.

Although he’s too humble to say it, there’s an obvious takeaway here: some dreams do come true.

Berth control
And this isn’t empty hype or hyperbole. It’s a fundamental shift for navigators.

NAVTOR’s Bþrge Hetland and Aslak Dirdal

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Auto-Routeing has been around for some years, but never in this format.

NAVTOR’s solution is built on the firm’s unique track record with ENCs (it is the world’s leading value-added reseller), an integrated eco-system of digital solutions (gathering all voyage critical information on a single platform, NavStation) and a constant feed of real-time global AIS data. The result is an intuitive solution that instantly calculates the shortest available routes, down to the very finest details.

“NAVTOR’s Auto-Routeing is unique in that it takes you, if desired, from one individual berth to another, anywhere in the world,” Dirdal states. “It is simple, highly efficient and dependable. Furthermore, if you want to plan from point to point, then that’s fine too. Using the route planning function you can plot from one waypoint to another, press calculate, and all the other waypoints along the route will appear. This can be done from a vessel’s current location, or from any given point for that matter.

NAVTOR’s Bþrge Hetland and Aslak Dirdal

“It’s puts navigators in control,” he says. “And when that functionality is combined with NavStation’s other layers – such as weather routing, environmental regulations, NavArea warnings, passage planning, port data and so on – everything they need is at their fingertips, in one place. We believe it’s a transformational tool.”

Review, refine, relax
The suggested route can be compared to alternatives (also generated by the module’s proprietary algorithm at the touch of a button), with navigators reviewing and refining suggestions to meet their exact needs. For example, ‘blockers’ can be activated along the way to avoid areas, such as busy straits, shallow water, port entries or canals, additional ports or waypoints can be added, cargo specified, and all routeing alternatives controlled. Suggestions can also be saved for further route- and passage planning purposes.

And crucially, Dirdal adds, this is “a living thing.”

“We’re not just releasing this to the market and that’s that,” he stresses. “This is constantly consuming data and updating on a weekly basis, leading to continual improvements and optimal accuracy.

“It’s important that this is a solution the whole industry can trust (NAVTOR has e-Navigation and performance monitoring and optimisation products and services on over 8,000 vessels), so we’re investing in continual refinements and development.”

As Bþrge Hetland, NAVTOR’s Chief Commercial Officer, breaks in to note: “Our customers never stand still, and neither do we.”

Driving development
Hetland describes the development of the module, which launched last year, as “a perfect demonstration of both NAVTOR’s vision and ability.”

He comments: “We always want to be the forefront of innovation, driving change. But not for ourselves, not at all. It’s our mission to listen to this industry, understand our customers’ key challenges and see if we can design smart, digital solutions that solve them, delivering competitive advantage.

“Shipping is complicated and, some would argue, constantly increasing in complexity; with new regulations, commercial demands and operational challenges.

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“However, with innovations like Auto-Routeing we can turn that on its head, automating tasks, integrating planning and greatly simplifying life at sea.

“That benefits navigators, of course, but it also drives efficiencies for shipping companies, and that impacts positively on the bottom line.”

Hetland concludes that the rapid uptake of the solution, and ongoing positive feedback, demonstrates the demand for such a breakthrough.

“But then that’s not too unexpected,” he jokes. “After all, they’ve been dreaming about this for some time!”

NAVTOR’s award winning Auto-Routeing solution is just one layer on the NavStation platform. Others include port data, AMVER reporting, weather routing, manoeuvring assistant, passage planning, e-publication reader, environmental regulations and much more, all georeferenced and seamlessly overlaid on top of the latest ENCs.
Source: NAVTOR



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