Using Hindcast model to prove Voyage Efficiency & Fuel Savings
Fixed Pitch Propeller vessels cannot rely on traditional comparisons to document fuel savings when using propulsion optimization technology, because every voyage differs in weather, loading, currents, and fouling, making direct comparisons unreliable. Aperio SmartPropulsion solves this challenge through an advanced, data‑driven hindcast model that analyzes a single executed voyage.
The model evaluates how the vessel sailed against its charter‑party requirements and identifies overspeed, unnecessary accelerations, and power fluctuations. It reconstructs an optimized version of that same voyage, showing how SmartPropulsion’s constant power mode would have executed it. The difference between actual fuel use and the optimized voyage provides transparent, trustworthy savings potential. This methodology has been reviewed and approved by Lloyd’s Register confirming it as a valid way to calculate fuel‑saving potential for FPP vessels. Improve voyage efficiency with Aperio SmartPropulsion.
