Vessel Technical Index
By accurately assessing a ship’s technical condition—independent of external factors—The Vessel Technical Index (VTI) enables smarter decisions for fuel efficiency, maintenance planning, and performance-based contracts. The VTI sets a new standard for measuring and verifying vessel performance, providing shipowners, charterers, and fleet operators with real-time, data-driven insights.
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How efficient is your vessel right now?
What’s the true impact of hull cleaning or energy-saving devices? VTI provides real-time, accurate performance data, isolating vessel conditions from external factors.
Backed by DNV Recommended Practice, it empowers shipowners, charterers, and financiers with verifiable insights for smarter decisions, performance-linked contracts, and sustainable operations.
By integrating high-accuracy, real-time vessel speed through water measurements with local wave and weather data, VTI delivers a live and normalized for external forces, overview of technical efficiency—helping optimize fuel consumption, cut emissions, and maximize ROI.
Why Vessel Technical Index?
VTI eliminates key inaccuracies in performance optimization by providing precise vessel speed through water (STW) and locally measured weather conditions. By combining accurate environmental data with high-frequency vessel performance metrics, it delivers a real-time assessment of a ship’s technical efficiency, independent of external forces and operational decisions.
With this approach, VTI sets a new benchmark for evaluating vessel performance, ensuring that efficiency calculations are both accurate and reliable—empowering operators to make data-driven decisions for optimized operations.
The VTI provides shipowners, charterers, and fleet operators with a powerful tool to measure the impact of energy-saving technologies.
By validating the effectiveness of energy-saving devices (ESDs), stakeholders can make informed decisions on retrofitting and operational improvements, ensuring maximum return on investment.
Maintenance planning is significantly enhanced through real-time performance tracking.
The VTI helps determine the actual impact of hull and propeller cleanings, allowing for optimized maintenance schedules that improve efficiency and reduce unnecessary costs.
With accurate fuel tables and real-time performance data, the VTI supports smarter fuel optimization.
By integrating vessel performance with environmental conditions, operators can adjust routing and speed to maximize fuel efficiency, ultimately reducing consumption and emissions.
The VTI serves as a foundation for performance-based contracts, enabling shipowners and charterers to align financial agreements with actual vessel efficiency.
This transparency fosters stronger collaboration and supports industry-wide efforts toward decarbonization and sustainability.
Data Analysts: Data Explorer is a great tool for data analysts who want to dive deep into their data and discover meaningful insights. With Data Explorer’s powerful querying and visualization features, you can quickly identify patterns and trends in your data that might otherwise be difficult to spot.
Operations teams: Can use Data Explorer to gain a better understanding of their operations and make data-driven decisions.
Site managers: With the ability to analyse data from multiple sources, Data Explorer can help site managers to identify opportunities for optimising their processes and reach their operational targets.
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