A standardised vessel dataset (SVD) for Noon Reports has been launched by the Smart Maritime Council, a cross-industry membership group, following the completion of a proof-of-concept project involving vessel operators OSM Maritime, Thome Group and V.Ships, offering a non-proprietary list of standard data points that can be freely applied by any maritime industry stakeholders to simplify data collection and analysis.
Working from a standardised list created by the Smart Maritime Council in collaboration with Stolt Tankers, the project saw Noon Report data from individual vessels operated by each of the three shipmanagers mapped to the central standard and then exported as XML data files in the same common format.
The standardised data from the different companies was shared with Lloyd’s Register (LR), acting as the technology partner on the project, and uploaded into one of its software platforms adapted to accept the standard format for analysis, eliminating the need to run a separate translation procedure for each individual operator.
With this step, the proof-of-concept project was successfully completed, delivering a standardised set of data points covering common items within the Noon Report that allowed information from three different shipping companies to be collected in a standard format and successfully imported into a software application for analysis without any further customisation.
“Thome Group has supported this industry initiative from day one, as we believe that, along with onboard inventory control, the lack of a standardised Noon Report is one of the most consistent problem statements from our fleet colleagues and performance analysts,” said Peter Schellenberger, vice president supply chain, Thome Ship Management.
The SVD for Noon Reports has now been made available as an open list of standard data points for vessel operations, freely available to download and apply by any maritime industry stakeholders via the Smart Maritime Council website.
