Category: Ship Operations
Stability as a service
By Lauri Pöyhönen and Petteri Vilanen, Safety Solutions, NAPA Ltd. The cruise industry is constantly expanding its itineraries, and there’s a constant competition to see who can go the furthest. The first expedition cruise was to Antarctica in 1966, but until relatively recently they were relatively rare. In part this was because they were usually no-frills […]
Read ArticleApril 5, 2019
How does NAPA act on your feedback?
Ship operations solutions and services Each year at NAPA, we reach out to all our customer contacts with a survey request to collect feedback. We want to listen to the experiences of all our end users, everybody that has been in touch with our Customer Service, or interacted with NAPA in any way – if […]
Read ArticleApril 5, 2019
Bored of paperwork? Join the revolution of electronic logbooks!
By Mikko Forss, Sales Director, Americas, NAPA Ltd. What item can be found onboard all modern ships that’s basically unchanged since the earliest days of commercial shipping? Well, there’s a few answers. But the most common one is traditional paper logbooks. They’ve lasted a long time for good reasons. They’re robust, well known by the […]
Read ArticleApril 4, 2019
Sink or swim: Safety at seas for passenger ships
by Jussi Siltanen, NAPA Safety Solutions How would your passengers feel if they knew you were only doing the legal minimum to keep them safe at sea? It’s an age-old question about responsibility, and one which should challenge assumptions about the way in which a business is run. Should we expect our ships and crews […]
Read ArticleApril 1, 2019
Download NAPA Logbook brochure
Download the NAPA Logbook brochure for more information on NAPA’s solution for recording and managing ship data. NAPA Logbook brochure
Read ArticleFebruary 14, 2019
Download NAPA Safety Solutions brochure
Download the NAPA Safety Solutions brochure for more information on NAPA’s integrated decision support for increased stability and safety. NAPA Safety Solution brochure
Read ArticleFebruary 14, 2019
INPEX selects NAPA to deliver performance monitoring for all of its LNG carriers servicing its Ichthys project
Helsinki, Finland – 12 February 2019 ClassNK-NAPA GREEN provides continuous real-time data to monitor and improve safety and performance NAPA, the leading maritime software, services and data analysis provider, today announced that after a competitive tender, INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX), Japan’s largest oil and gas exploration and production company, has chosen to install NAPA’s comprehensive solution […]
Read ArticleFebruary 12, 2019
Using operational data, 3D product models, and digital structure analyses to estimate a ship’s life cycle
by Tapio Hulkkonen and Teemu Manderbacka For most of maritime history it has been difficult to assess the real environmental history of a ship. Its classification society records will give you information about any mechanical or structural defects that have had to be fixed. What those records won’t tell you are the storms it has […]
Read ArticleFebruary 12, 2019
Making weather-routed voyage planner openly available
by Pekka Pakkanen, Director, Development, NAPA Shipping Solutions NAPA and MarineTraffic partner to deliver a Voyage Planner offering accurate, algorithm-driven Weather Routing Two months ago MarineTraffic signed an MOU with NAPA, the global maritime software, services, and data analysis provider to work together to create a voyage planner with a cloud-based Weather Routing solution. This […]
Read ArticleFebruary 8, 2019
Visions on autonomous ship stability management
by Jussi Siltanen, NAPA Safety Solutions After a recent closing meeting of an autonomous vessel project group, I was encouraged to vision the role of stability management in an era where ships will be unmanned and most of the ship functions are controlled or monitored from ashore or by machine. Views on unmanned or autonomous […]
Read ArticleFebruary 4, 2019