Voyage optimisation
Simulate any route under forecast, hindcast or statistical weather conditions and identify the most fuel efficient path for the specific vessel in its actual operational state.
Vessel Performance Models
For Routing and Voyage Analysis
For Routing and Voyage Analysis
Know exactly how your vessel will perform. Before you sail.
AlbatrosDigital provides vessel performance models for routing platforms and voyage analysis tools. Physics-based from the start, built from naval architecture principles and CFD simulation. Continuously calibrated using machine learning on high frequency sensor data, noon reports, fuel flow measurements and real voyage data. The more operational data available, the more accurate the model becomes. Every waypoint. Every condition. Delivered by API.
Better models. Better decisions.
Every routing decision is only as good as the vessel performance model behind it. Generic resistance curves and simplified polar diagrams miss the factors that matter most. Wind, waves, current, draft, trim, fouling state and the contribution of energy saving technologies all affect how a vessel performs on any given route. AlbatrosDigital vessel performance models account for all of them, giving routing platforms and their users a precise, vessel-specific picture of how a ship will actually behave in any condition.
The result is more accurate voyage planning, more reliable CII predictions, more confident fuel consumption forecasting and better ETA accuracy.
What you can do with accurate vessel performance models
CII prediction and compliance
Accurate vessel-specific fuel consumption modelling across realistic voyage profiles gives operators and fleet managers reliable Carbon Intensity Indicator predictions, not estimates based on fleet averages.
Fuel consumption forecasting
Forecast fuel consumption waypoint by waypoint across any route, accounting for hull fouling state, trim, draft, loading condition and prevailing metocean conditions.
Seakeeping and operability
AlbatrosDigital models include a seakeeping score that quantifies vessel motion and comfort across any sea state. Routing platforms can use this to optimise routes for safety and operability as well as fuel efficiency.
One model. Any input. Always improving.
AlbatrosDigital vessel performance models work for any vessel type, any propulsion system and any routing platform. We are data and technology agnostic.
The model starts from whatever data you have. An IMO number alone is enough to generate a powerful physics-based vessel performance model built from naval architecture principles, 1,500 CFD simulations and fleet-wide design intelligence. Provide full vessel design inputs and the model sharpens further. Feed in noon reports and it calibrates to how the vessel actually performs in service. Connect high frequency sensor data and machine learning takes over, continuously refining the model as more operational data comes in.
The result is always the most accurate vessel performance model possible given the data available. And it keeps getting better.
Where AlbatrosDigital is uniquely differentiated is wind assisted ship propulsion. Rotor sails, Flettner rotors and wing sails change how a vessel responds to weather in ways that generic performance models cannot capture. AlbatrosDigital is the only commercial provider of vessel performance models that fully accounts for wind propulsion system contribution in routing and voyage analysis. For shipowners operating wind assisted vessels, this means your routing tool can finally optimise for the technology you have invested in.
All models are delivered by API and integrate with any routing or voyage analysis platform.
Add vessel intelligence to your platform
Tell us what data you have and what your platform needs to do. We will show you what the models deliver.