An overview of weather routing and safe ship handling approaches in the future of shipping
is presented. Weather routing provides the recommendations on transportation routes prior …

Seakeeping evaluations are important in the early design stages in order to ensure that
vessels can sail the seas and execute their missions safely in the intended conditions. Such …

In this study, we propose a new approach for solving the weather routing problem with an
efficient speed schedule that minimizes fuel consumption. The procedure used to solve the …

The development of intelligent shipping route planning systems is important for maritime
traffic networks, and has attracted considerable attention in the field of marine traffic …

Optimal weather routing of ships seeks to determine the voyage route, in rough seas, which
minimizes a certain metric or criterion (eg transit time, consumed bunker fuel, pollutant …

International maritime shipping constantly faces significant cost pressure and tough
competition. At the same time, the increasing regulatory stringency poses additional …

At the basis of the marine food chain, plankton play a key role in ocean ecology. Due to their
daily vertical migration of several hundred meters, some of these organisms play a major …

Determining the operability of a vessel is a critical task for the naval architect since it
provides valuable information for vessel owners and operators on the vessel's performance …