MES Starts Ship Operational Analysis Service
Considered Ecological Ship Management

July 17, 2008

On August 1, 2008, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES with president Mr. Yasuhiko Katoh) starts ship operational analysis service on the Ship Operation Support Portal Site of its Maritime Solution Dept., which enables the assumption of actual ship’s performance under real navigational conditions.

Due to dramatic change of operational environment by the soaring of oil price, global demand for controlling greenhouse gas emission etc., the ship operation nowadays is required to pay attention not only to the economy and efficiency, as was before, but also to the environmental load.

To achieve such sophisticated requirement, MES has developed a system to accurately grasp the “Ship’s Performance at Sea” while the ship is navigating under actual sea conditions and to offer a “Diagnosing Service to Maintain Ship’s Performance” to the customer.

In this offered service, the navigational data of the ship are analyzed by creating a ship model by means of a Ship Operation Analysis System developed by Akishima Laboratories (Mitsui Zosen) Ltd. (MES’s 100 % owned subsidiary with president Mr. Junshi Takashina) gathering information on the ship’s outline specifications and operational data (such as Noon Report, ABLOG etc.) from the customer.

The data analyzed are segregated according to aging degradation and disturbance effect in chronological order and will be supplied as ship’s operation performance information under actual sea conditions including data for sea margin, decrease of ship’s speed and FOC analysis information. In addition, operational schedule support service is also offered by supplying data of meteorological influence according to season of the year and the navigational route to help finding of contractual speed, bunker contract and operational schedule most appropriate to every and each ship for its own navigational route.

Furthermore, the optimum ship repair service schedule is supported and advised by simulating the ship’s aging deterioration according to such diagnosis based upon revolutions, FOC, horse power and ship’s speed.

This service will make a part of one package of “Ship Performance Analysis Service” along with other two services, i.e. “Fleet Monitor” (an operational monitoring service now under operation) and “Optimum Navigational Route Finding Service” (now under development) constituting a total analyzing system covering actual ship measurement, ship operational analysis and optimum navigational route finding, thus an automatic calculation service is supplied.

MES intends to offer detailed and fine-tuned service to the customers by combining this system with the e-CICS, which is a remote diagnosis service offered to the users of Mitsui MAN-B&W main engine.

MES is committed to the development and supply of ship navigational service on the portal service by one-stop as a comprehensive information supplier in terms of ship’s operation.


(MES) Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.