- This digitally connected environmentally sound ‘smart ecosystem’ was launched in September last year.
- A hub will be created with important places like Rotterdam, Hamburg, and Helsinki where the key players of the shipping industry collaborate for the 2020 outlook.
- The first workshop August featured 18 renowned experts from various fields like air quality monitoring, crowd-sourcing, logistics, architecture etc.
- The aim of this project is to enhance the connectivity in the maritime industry so that it becomes more efficient.
It’s the age of connectivity and Wartsila wants to seal its place in the history of shipping. Unlike other maritime companies, Wärtsilä has the vision to transform society and the first step towards it is by laying the foundations for a future of connectivity, reports Kent Erik Kristiansen, the Communications & Marketing Manager of Nor-Shipping.
What’s the plan?
The Helsinki headquartered smart technology group has started this connectivity initiative which integrates the systems, the industry, and the stakeholders driving greater efficiency, environmental performance, and living standards. Roger Holm, President of Wärtsilä Marine Solutions, explains ‘An Oceanic Awakening’.
“If you connect things you create greater efficiency, understanding and value. That’s smart. Working in isolation is not.” If you take one thing away from this meeting with Roger Holm, take that. It’s a simple idea that forms the foundation for some very complex systems and breathtakingly ambitious objectives.
It’s an idea that, the Wärtsilä Marine Solutions President believes, can change the world.
Transforming tomorrow
September 2018 saw Wärtsilä launch its An Oceanic Awakening initiative.
This potentially revolutionary project aims to bring together maritime cities, ports, businesses, wider industrial players, tech firms, and a broad range of stakeholders from across society to plan the creation of one efficient, digitally connected and environmentally sound ‘smart ecosystem’.
This is not an ecosystem in one location, but rather one with the potential to roll out across the world, creating more productive working environments with better living standards for citizens of cities by the sea. Ecosystems where, for example, port infrastructure could be situated offshore allowing for a ‘clean’ re-imagination of shore side use, innovation hubs could be built to help stakeholders collaborate for new solutions, and automated green transport networks could connect urban shorelines.
How will it work out?
It’s a radical approach that will spawn, Wärtsilä says, “new business opportunities for the benefit of all” while creating a more sustainable, efficient and pleasant urban living.
The cynics amongst you may be shaking your heads by now.
It all sounds like an impossible dream, right?
A distant utopia?
Not according to Holm.
“There are so many stakeholders working independently to achieve their own objectives,” he states, “both at sea and on shore”. This creates a barrier to progress. But if we can activate a process whereby those stakeholders collaborate towards a shared objective we can accelerate positive change.
“We need real-time communication networks, data-enabled processes and decision making, connectivity across segments and industry verticals – we need to work together. And we believe we’ve made a start.”
Creating the 2020 team
That start revolves around SEA20, the key An Oceanic Awakening facilitator. This is a forum in which Wärtsilä aims to recruit 20 of the leading maritime cities by 2020, creating a network that will collaborate to foster new ideas, deploy best practices and adopt smarter ways of doing business. Rotterdam, Hamburg, and Helsinki are the first hubs to commit to the programme, while the first workshop, featuring 18 renowned experts from fields as diverse as air quality monitoring, crowd-sourcing, logistics, architecture, and academia, took place in August.
“It’s the first project of its kind,” Holm states, “so we understand it is ambitious – but we don’t see that as a barrier, rather an opportunity. It’s our hope this will evolve and take on a life of its own, with Wärtsilä becoming just one of the participants rather than the lead. This form of collaboration is central to unlocking development.”
Business benefits
Of course, the drivers for this project are not completely altruistic.
Wärtsilä is, after all, a business… and a successful one at that. The company’s latest quarterly report ably demonstrates that fact, with a year-on-year order intake increase of 7% to EUR 4.4 billion (January-September) and a net sales increase of 5%. The marine business, and industry outlook as a whole, is “moving in the right direction,” according to Holm.
The pay off in terms of the Oceanic Awakening is the opportunity for Wärtsilä to position its technology at the heart of the new ecosystems. It can and should be, the Marine Solutions President states, a key enabler.
“Our products are designed to deliver standalone benefits, but really fulfill their potential when used together, when they are connected”.
“For example, take our fully integrated vessel hybrid power system (Wärtsilä HY), our intelligent routing and navigation software (NACOS Platinum) and the automated dock-to-dock technology that was successfully tested this year on-board Norled’s Folgefonn passenger ferry in Norway. This latter development was the first time in the world that an autonomous operation took a ferry from dock-to-dock, visiting three ports without human intervention. The captain simply selects ‘sail’ and the journey begins”.
“So if you combine these technologies you can generate optimized power onboard according to your route planning and needs, which in turn is dictated by your automated ‘just in time’ arrival into port. The solutions work seamlessly together to create the most efficient vessel and transport ecosystem, which in turn feeds into the wider ecosystem and delivers better environmental standards, with reduced power consumption and emissions, and safer, more predictable and enhanced operations. This creates knock-on effects throughout the whole of the connected society. This is the way forward.”
Collaborating for change
Wärtsilä’s smart ecosystem strategy is the fulcrum of all activity and looks set to be the platform for its presence at Nor-Shipping 2019. Holm sees an obvious synergy between the exhibition week’s drive to embrace wider ocean opportunities, encapsulated by its new ‘Blue Economy’ hall, focusing on the sustainable use of ocean resources, and Wärtsilä’s An Oceanic Awakening.
“Smarter sustainability and smarter business go hand in hand, there’s no contradiction,” he says. “Regulations and wider pressure from society for better environmental performance create business opportunity. We can all use energy more efficiently, find new ways of working together and innovate. Nor-Shipping is a natural meeting place for progressive customers, ideas and collaborators, so we look forward to connecting with them in Norway next year.”
What’s the priority now?
For the time being Holm and Wärtsilä look set to focus on building momentum behind their An Oceanic Awakening initiative while continuously developing, improving and marketing a smart product portfolio that supports it.
“Working with a growing group of partners on this project will help us understand and influence the changing needs of the maritime and energy sectors, refining our products and sparking new innovations for our team.”
“But we are just one player in this,” Holm concludes. “We can’t do it on our own and we need broad-based participation to create the greatest benefits for both industry and society. Together we can accelerate real change. We just need to connect.”
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