World's largest heavy transport carrier gets OCTOPUS

Dockwise Shipping B.V. has purchased the OCTOPUS-Onboard monitoring & routing system for the world's largest heavy transport carrier Blue Marlin. OCTOPUS-Onboard will be configured for immediate and mid-term decision support by using weather forecast, a ship response prediction model and a three-sensor motion measurement system. Using the on X-sens technology based measurement system, motions and accelerations can be monitored in any virtual location on the vessel or cargo. Amarcon will provide the turn-key system including hardware, software and sensors. Dockwise Shipping B.V. will also start using the new OCTOPUS-Online service by Amarcon. OCTOPUS-Online allows cargo- and ship-owners to be informed about the current location and status of their property. Daily reports from the vessel are sent to a central database server, which is accessible from the internet. Users have to log-in to gain access to their own part of the protected website. After the voyage, the recorded data is evaluated and the impact to the cargo can be analyzed. This is the seventh permanent OCTOPUS-installation for Dockwise Shipping B.V.