- MSS has signed a three-year contract extension with Inmarsat for its new dedicated bandwidth service Fleet Xpress.
- Advocates digital solutions to optimize vessel operations and adopted a new energy advisory system to reduce fuel consumption by 5% by 2020.
- The company will use the new dedicated bandwidth service to provide its charterers with their own connection through the same terminal and hardware on the vessel.
- IT solutions offer customers greater control and flexibility over data management, a key to achieve smarter and more agile vessel performance.
- Since its launch in March 2016, Fleet Xpress has been installed on board around 7,000 vessels.
Maersk Supply Service extends its contract with Inmarsat for Fleet Xpress and a dedicated bandwidth service for charterers, says an article published in Marine Link.
What is in the contract?
Maersk Supply Service has signed a three-year contract extension with Inmarsat for its new dedicated bandwidth service Fleet Xpress.
The contract also includes a dedicated bandwidth charterer service agreement.
5% reduced fuel consumption
The Danish company, deployed in Europe, the Americas, West Africa, South East Asia and Australia, 40 Maersk Supply Service (MSS) vessels include the most modern anchor handlers, subsea support vessels and platform supply vessels.
MSS also an advocate for digital solutions that use data to optimize vessel operations, recently adopting a new energy advisory system in support of an initial target to reduce fuel consumption by 5% by 2020.
Connection from same terminal and hardware
Eric Griffin, VP of Offshore Energy, Inmarsat Maritime said Maersk Supply Service’s commitment to Fleet Xpress will help enable its digitalization strategy.
Griffin said that the company will use the new dedicated bandwidth service to provide its charterers with their own connection through the same terminal and hardware on the vessel.
Inmarsat said the new charterer plans on Fleet Xpress have been designed specifically for
- offshore supply vessel operators to meet the increasing connectivity requirements of third-party charterers and
- to run across dedicated bandwidth that does not interrupt the vessel’s primary bandwidth.
Data control and flexibility
Maersk Supply Service Chief Information Officer, Thomas Stampe, said that the IT solutions offer the customers greater control and flexibility over data management. This is the key to any initiatives that seek to achieve smarter and more agile vessel performance.
Since its launch in March 2016, Fleet Xpress has been installed on board around 7,000 vessels.
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Source: MarineLink
