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By adding more advanced route planning features to Routing, EnRoute is the intermediate member of the Seaware Onboard product line. In addition to the basic ship performance calculations offered in Routing, i.e. speed reduction and fuel consumption, EnRoute predicts the dynamic response of the ship in terms of rigid body motions, accelerations, effective heel, hull girder loads and dynamic stability phenomena, such as parametric rolling.

When planning and evaluating a route, EnRoute will also predict the dynamic behavior of the ship based on the underlying weather forecast. Each dynamic response type has been assigned some limit value, and for each segment of the route where such limits are exceeded EnRoute will display a warning, thus alerting the bridge officers of potential hazards to the ship and cargo. Furthermore, for the segments of a route where limits are exceeded, the program offers a seakeeping advice facility which displays the result of alternate speed and headings.

Naturally, the route optimization feature may be set to avoid exceeding the ship’s dynamic limits.

Benefits

  • Always up-to-date weather forecasts
  • High quality weather data
  • Clear and configurable weather presentation
  • Support for personal guidance from marine meteorologist
  • Best possible ETA through performance predictions based on the ship’s individual particulars
  • Fuel savings through the route optimization feature
  • Avoid excessive ship motions through the route optimization feature
  • Operators kept up-to-date by use of automatic ship reports
  • Optimize your operation based on rational criteria


Features

All features of Seaware Routing plus prediction of ship dynamics :


Ship motions

  • Roll, pitch, heave, sway and yaw
  • Slamming, green water and propeller emergence

Dynamic stability (IMO MSC/Circ. 707)

  • Parametric rolling
  • Loss of stability
  • Synchronous roll resonance
  • Surf riding/broaching

Accelerations/effective heel

  • Vertical accelerations
  • Lateral accelerations
  • Effective heel

Structural loads

  • Vertical dynamic bending moment


System requirements

Minimum system requirements

  • 1.5 GHz processor or faster
  • 1 GB RAM recommended
  • 250 MB free hard disk space
  • 19" display (1280 x 1024) recommended
  • Optionally one free PC COM port for GPS connection according to NMEA 0183 version 2.00

Either of the following operating systems:

  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP

In order to use online weather requests, the following is required:

  • Network adapter with TCP/IP protocol
  • Dedicated e-mail account at e-mail server with support for SMTP and POP3 protocols (with attachments)


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Seaware EnRoute is offered directly by Seaware, as well as by our partners. Contact us for more info!

Ship configuration data

Since the EnRoute products uses a built-in mathematical seakeeping model to predict the dynamic response of the ship in waves, each license includes a ship package that holds ship specific data. This includes for example a detailed description of the hull geometry. The following data is required in order to produce a ship package:

  • Hull lines (e.g. digital offset file or lines drawing)
  • General arrangment plan
  • Trim and stability book
  • General data on machinery and propulsion