Connecting people, technologies, ideas and expertise through NAPA Studios
NAPA Studios fosters cross-industry partnerships and projects to deliver new insights and solutions in addressing some of the maritime industry’s most critical challenges and uncertainties, such as energy transition, tightening environmental regulations, supply chain disruptions and cybersecurity.
We offer the opportunity to leverage NAPA’s existing expertise – spanning ship design, safety, and operational efficiency – to create innovative, data-driven solutions and partnerships built on the foundation of digital technology, data, and transparency, aiming to create lasting, tangible value.
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UNCERTAINTIES
- The energy-saving technology impact is not verified
- Future fuels will not be available at any meaningful scale for at least another decade
- Increased uncertainly due to the strengthened regulation
INDUSTRY NEED
Energy efficiency and carbon reduction with digital tools
HOW NAPA STUDIOS SUPPORTS
NAPA Studios can spearhead energy efficiency with our proven technology and data models on ship weather routing and vessel performance optimization. Examples:
- Analyzing the savings from the energy-saving device onboard
- Ship operational efficiency analysis
UNCERTAINTIES
- Data from ship design is not effectively used for simulating ship operations
- Similarly, data from ship operations is not effectively utilized for ship design
INDUSTRY NEED
Decision confidence with data and simulations
HOW NAPA STUDIOS SUPPORTS
NAPA Studios can help model, predict, and validate the impact of different safety, efficiency and decarbonization measures using ship digital twins. Examples:
- Wind-assisted device fuel-saving estimates for ROI calculation
- EU-ETS/FuelEU Maritime impact simulation
UNCERTAINTIES
- Multiple stakeholders have different interests
- Lack of transparency, visibility and collaboration between the stakeholders
INDUSTRY NEED
Framework for collaboration
HOW NAPA STUDIOS SUPPORTS
NAPA Studios can offer transparent data-sharing systems that provide a fact-based understanding of commercial, technical and regulatory implications, bringing together all stakeholders to collaborate confidently. Examples:
- Enhanced 3D Model based approval process
- Alternative fuel simulations for future-proof ship design
- Digital Twin project
NAPA Studios approach
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NAPA Studios projects
Based on our unique expertise and technology stack, NAPA Studios has already addressed some of the industry challenges and uncertainties by leveraging data science and digital technologies and by collaborating to build new operational frameworks.
Emission reduction up to 28% proven by joint simulation project on wind-assisted ships
CASE: Which energy-saving technology should be used, and what would be the ROI
- A joint simulation project between NAPA, Norsepower, and Sumitomo found that the combination of NAPA Voyage Optimization with the Norsepower Rotor SailTM wind propulsion can deliver emissions reductions of 28% on average.
- Of these average CO2 emissions savings, the contribution of NAPA Voyage Optimization can be estimated at 12%.
- The joint simulation project leveraged actionable insights from NAPA’s Ship Performance Model and NAPA Voyage Simulation tools, creating a digital twin to simulate the performance of the tankers in selected sea areas and estimate their CO2 reduction and potential fuel savings.
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A cross-industry project to create a secure data-sharing framework to advance the use of digital twins
CASE: Creating a secure data-sharing framework between shipyards and shipowners to advance the use of digital twins throughout a ship’s lifecycle
- The project aims to enable the use of a vessel’s unique 3D design data to optimize efficiency and safety at sea and share operational data to inform new designs.
- Establishing the platform and creating digital solutions to improve and innovate real-life ship design and operations.
- Co-created by shipowners NYK Group company MTI Co. Ltd. (“MTI”), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Marubeni Corporation, shipbuilders Imabari Shipbuilding, Japan Marine United Corporation, and Usuki Shipyard, NAPA, and classification society ClassNK.
- The project’s first two phases identified over 30 potential use cases where the data and 3D models used to design the ship can be shared securely and were used to create a vessel-specific digital twin that helps improve operational efficiency and safety throughout the vessel’s lifecycle.
- Further analysis confirmed the potential and value of digital twins in supporting loading calculations, ship condition monitoring, and energy-saving device evaluation.
NAPA Voyage Optimization to improve vessel's CII score and reduce fuel consumption
CASE: How ship performance model and operational data can be used together to future-proof fleets
- In a joint study with Marubeni and ClassNK, NAPA used its cloud-based Fleet Intelligence platform that combines NAPA’s expertise in naval architecture and unique performance model with years of data on actual sailed voyages and weather conditions to generate actionable insights for emission reduction across Marubeni’s fleet.
- Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions cut down by 7,3%.
Collaboration to develop cloud-based Navigational Risk Monitoring
CASE: How to use data science models and collaboration to further improve ship operational safety
- Building on the combined expertise of all three partners, MOL, ClassNK and NAPA collaborated to develop a cloud-based solution to monitor and mitigate navigational risks intelligently, deploying the solution on over 700 of MOL’s ships.
- The solution is based on NAPA’s cloud-based monitoring platform, NAPA Fleet Intelligence, which combines several data sources, such as position data, ship data, sea depth, and navigational charts, with NAPA’s data on typical operational patterns.
- This collaboration demonstrates how shipping’s digital innovators can collaborate to address critical safety challenges and improve the safety and efficiency of navigation.
Blue Visby - a collaborative initiative on decarbonization
CASE: Framework for collaboration
- NAPA is a co-founder of the Blue Visby Solution providing a technological and contractual platform to solve the “Sail Fast, then Wait” problem.
- Blue Visby Solution can reduce emissions for maritime journeys by 15% on average, based on the global analysis of dry and wet bulk carriers and confirmed by research on a fleet of 68 Marubeni gas and chemical tankers.
- The Blue Visby contractual and digital solution optimizes arrivals, enabling vessels to reduce their speed – and emissions – without impacting their commercial performance.
- The Blue Visby Consortium is coordinated by NAPA and maritime law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP, bringing together over 30 key maritime stakeholders across the value chain: the shipping industry, governments, classification societies, consultancies, financial institutions, environmental organizations, and academia.
From shipyard to sea
NAPA Studios leverages and converges relevant solutions from our existing technology stack – including our expertise in ship design and digital solutions for operational safety and efficiency.
Our 35 years of maritime industry experience and technologies, spanning hydrodynamics, stability, hull design, structural design, as well as fleet management, performance monitoring and optimization, safety and data analytics, gives us a unique advantage in covering the whole lifecycle of the ship – from shipyard to the sea. With this expertise and insights, combined with those of our customers and other stakeholders, we can create proven value and lasting success for the customer, the maritime industry and our planet.
