December 2004: SPOS in motion(s)

A close cooperation between Meteo Consult and Dutch/Norwegian Amarcon resulted in an integrated application of vessel response information in the SPOS weather and voyage planning software.

The Amarcon system called Octopus (also known as SRA of Germanische Lloyd) is used for predicting vessel motions, accelerations and forces in real time. The combination with SPOS enables the user to calculate optimum tracks with forecasted weather and predicted vessel motions. The user can predefine a combination of up to 6 maximum motion criteria and the SPOS system will automatically advice tracks avoiding areas where those criteria are to be exceeded.

Since the whole integration is brought into the SPOS interface, the use of the system is extremely simple. In the SPOS screenshot, the red arrows indicate the area where the selected motion criteria are exceeded.

The motion prediction system is currently being used on containerships and a pipe-laying vessel. Click here for more information.