ClassNK grants innovation endorsement to Blue Visby Solution

ClassNK has granted its Innovation Endorsement 1 for Products & Solutions to a Blue Visby Solution developed by Blue Visby Services Ltd.

The company describes Blue Visby Solution as a multilateral platform for reducing shipping GHG emissions by 15% by eradicating the practice of “Sail Fast, then Wait (SFTW)” by overcoming the obstacles of implementing “Just-in-Time” berthing. It consists of a collaborative technological and contractual platform that enables most of the GHG benefits by systemically optimizing the ocean passage, regardless of whether or not the port of destination has a JiT berthing system in place. It is designed to provide participating vessels with environmentally optimal, and dynamically optimized, target arrival times, which take into account the overall conditions at the port, weather, and the position and course of other ships steaming to the same destination. The system only provides target arrival times, while allowing participating vessels to use their own weather routing or voyage planning software. The Blue Visby Solution is intended not to provide voyage optimization to individual ships, or berthing optimization to individual ports, but to deliver environmental optimization of the ocean passage (pilot station to pilot station) of the group of participating ships, as a system.

ClassNK has verified its function of the technical and operational platform for allocating environmentally optimal arrival times at defined points to vessels as well as environmentally optimal arrival times are defined by port capability and ships performances, and contractual architecture for participating in the Blue Visby Solution, for sharing of the financial costs and benefits, for administering the rules of the system.