Shipwash

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  List of your ships and clean index

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  Map of where your ship is and closest ports with drydock facilities

Inspiration

We wanted to create a tool that created high impact for the maritime environment. It should be easy to implement and significantly reduce carbon emissions right now.

We looked at different solutions to reduce emissions on ships, and found that hull and propeller cleaning gave a significant reduction in fuel consumption without introducing new technology on the ships. Hence we decided to focus our analysis and application around this problem.

We wanted to create an platform that brings port owners and Shipowners together. Simply to bring awareness to the economics and possible improve the technical infrastructure around the world. So that hull and propeller cleaning, becomes a larger and broader part of the market. Hull cleaning should be as easy going to the cars wash, after filling up your car at the gas station (an electric car of course)

What it does

We have built a platform that gives shipowners the possibility to see where all their ships are right now, and where the closest drydock port is. We have also gathered history of when the ships got washed in the past, so the shipowner can keep track of which ships that should be washed next. This enables better planning of when the ships should be washed.

The portal show the economics of hull cleaning with real-time data, and is a booking system for port services. Both parties could better plan ahead with this portal. Shipowners can book a wash and plan for the future by using the interactive interface in the portal. Port services can keep up to date prices and information about types of services they can offer shipowners.

The economics of running this site is either from a small fee per booking, or parties pay to be a member.

Video demonstration: https://share.getcloudapp.com/d5uO01NB

How we built it

We built the portal using Next.js hosted on Azure. For big data analysis of AIS data we used Azure Databricks.

Challenges we ran into

When we started looking at the AIS emissions data we realized that the hull cleaning factor was constant for many of the ships. This motivated us to look at when the ships went to a drydock in the past, and calculate number of days since last wash. We realized that this calculation is not 100% accurate because we are not sure if the ship actually got washed or performed a regular port stop.

The economics calculations around profits also involve simplistic assumptions. However, these assumptions can easily be taken care of with more effort.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to have done a data analysis, profit calculations and building a web application for ship owners.

What we learned

We have learned a lot about ship washing and the impact it can have on carbon emissions in the maritime industry.

What's next for Shipwash

There is a lot of new tech in the ship hull cleaning business, and we assume that this market will grow substantially in the future. We will be improve our portal and data analysis to better understand the market and enable easier planning of shipwashing.

Built With

• azure
• databrics
• nextjs
• python
• react
• typescript