据9月24日offshore energy消息：海事船级社和技术服务提供商劳氏(LR)收购了GreenSteam，这是一家专门通过机器学习提高船舶效率的海洋数据智能公司。
据了解，此次收购将由劳氏船级社的子公司i4 Insight进行整合和管理。
i4 Insight是英国劳氏海事性能服务业务的一部分，是一个数字平台，可以让船东、运营商和租船人轻松获取其船队的船舶性能和燃料消耗的信息。
该公司表示，此举将有助于航运业减少温室气体排放，并降低运营成本。
LR首席执行官Nick Brown表示:“收购GreenSteam后，我们的i4 Insight平台得到了加强，这将使我们的客户能够优化运营效率和船舶性能，从而使他们的业务在竞争日益激烈的世界中更具可持续性。”
GreenSteam是最早将机器学习应用于船舶性能数据的公司之一，其系统可以分析来自数千艘船舶的数据，不断学习、调整和更新其对每艘船舶的了解。
其机器学习技术使用真实的船舶性能数据，为船东和运营商提供可操作的建议。
与无法使用90%的性能数据并对其建模的传统分析方法不同，通过使用机器学习，GreenSteam团队在其模型中包含了所有船舶性能数据，以提供其他标准方法无法看到的见解。
i4 Insight的舰队优化总监兼首席执行官Joel Meltzner补充道:“收购GreenSteam有助于我们实现为客户提供单一信息源的目标，以解决关键运营挑战并大幅节省运营成本。”
去年，劳氏船级社启动了一个 专门中心，以加速世界航运业的脱碳。
海事脱碳中心是劳氏船级社和基金会的联合倡议，重点是帮助海洋工业设计、开发和商业化未来脱碳所需燃料的途径。
冯娟 摘译自 offshore energy
原文如下：
LR buys ship data intelligence company to increase sustainability
Maritime classification society and technical services provider Lloyd’s Register (LR) has acquired GreenSteam, a marine data intelligence company specialising in improving vessel efficiency through machine learning.
As informed, the acquisition will be integrated and managed by i4 Insight, a subsidiary of Lloyd’s Register.
i4 Insight, part of LR’s Maritime Performance Services business, is a digital platform that allows shipowners, operators and charterers to easily access insights align="justify"> The move will help the shipping industry to drive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and cut operating costs, according to the company.
“Our i4 Insight platform, now enhanced with the acquisition of GreenSteam, will enable our customers to optimise their operational efficiency and vessel performance, making their businesses more sustainable in an increasingly competitive world,” Nick Brown, LR CEO, said.
GreenSteam was align="justify"> Its machine learning technology uses real ship performance data to provide owners and operators with actionable advice.
Unlike traditional analytic approaches that fail to use and model 90% of performance data, by using machine learning, GreenSteam includes all ship performance data in its models to deliver insights other standard methodologies just cannot see.
“The acquisition of GreenSteam supports our aim to provide our customers with a single source of information to solve key operational challenges and make significant operational cost savings,” Joel Meltzner, Fleet Optimisation Director and CEO of i4 Insight, added.
Last year, Lloyd’s Register launched a dedicated centre of excellence to accelerate decarbonisation of the world of shipping.
The Maritime Decarbonisation Hub, a joint initiative between Lloyd’s Register Group and Foundation, is focused on helping the maritime industry design, develop and commercialise the pathways to future fuels required for decarbonisation.