Danelec Marine and NAPA Partner to Offer Complete End-to-End Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud Solution for Ship Performance Analysis and Optimization

The new shipping IoT package combines Danelec’s efficient, low-cost shipboard data collection and data transfer platform with NAPA’s advanced analytics and optimization tools. The integration with DanelecConnect allows NAPA to offer its shipping customers a comprehensive turnkey IoT package encompassing numerous elements from onboard data collection to actionable ship and fleet performance analysis. Read more here

DSME Selects NAPA Steel to Transform Ship Design Processes

DSME will use NAPA Steel at both the initial and the detailed design stages. With 3D model-based software DSME is able to compete in a market where designers need to react faster than ever in response to complex demands from owners, class societies and international regulators, as they create the ships of the future.  The selection of NAPA Steel by yet another world leading shipyard is evidence of a paradigm shift occurring in vessel design. Read more here

Center: Ilmo Kuutti, President of NAPA Group (left) shakes hands with Kwan-Won Sohn, Head of Ship Business Unit at DSME after signing the contract in Geoje on 6 February 2018

NAPA Publishes Research on Calculation Methods for Damage Stability

A full-length scientific article on calculation of the righting lever curve for a damaged ship, written by three NAPA stability experts, Pekka Ruponen, Teemu Manderbacka and Daniel Lindroth has been published in an international peer-reviewed journal Ocean Engineering.  Read more and download the article, here.

Did you miss the NAPA - C-Job Webinar "The Evolution of Ship Design" in December 2017? No worries, watch it now!

NAPA and C-Job Naval Architects organized a webinar in December 2017 on the implementation of Accelerated Concept Design. You are welcomed to join the webinar to listen what C-Job's Thijs Muller and NAPA's Jan Furustam had to tell about this way to automate and optimize the concept stage of the ship design process using genetic algorithms together with a 3D model developed for early design phases. 

Link to the webinar recording: https://vimeo.com/249401433/9a791b0aab

NAPA Launches Plug and Play, Zero Installation Fleet Performance Monitoring Service

NAPA Fleet Intelligence, a cloud-based web service for fleet operational insight, delivers highly accurate efficiency data for any ship in the world

NAPA Fleet Intelligence is a game changer making voyage analysis easy. It offers

• Voyage-by-voyage analysis of fuel efficiency for any conventionally powered vessel 
• Access to performance monitoring data for 55,000+ vessels and 6.5 million voyages
• Instant access through a web portal, with no onboard equipment or installations
• Results based on AIS data, weather and environmental monitoring, and hydrodynamic calculations from NAPA’s in-house experts
• Standardized, readily analysed and easy to understand reporting across owned, time chartered and voyage chartered vessels
• Verification of noon-reports
• Help to identify fleets and vessels which operate inefficiently and to do further analysis

For further information visit http://fleetintelligence.napa.fi. Welcome to visit the NAPA team at Nor-Shipping 2017 exhibition in Norway this week to hear more about NAPA Fleet Intelligence.