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Danaos research activities Status summary 3/2014 Takis Varelas – Sofia Archontaki

Leadership is going hand-in-glove with quality. Danaos is a worldwide leader among a very small band of shipping companies in bona fide and applied research participating in notably string of EU and national projects.

Danaos research Centre

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Leadership is going hand-in-glove with quality. Danaos is a worldwide leader among a very small band of shipping companies in bona fide and applied research participating in notably string of EU and national projects.

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0. ABOUT

Danaos research Centre (Dr.C) activities cover the whole spectrum of a ship management and operation processes looking forward and beyond to quest the best. We are working towards to be better than you instead of me too. We strongly believe that dominance and leadership require innovative thinking, teamwork spirit, extroversion and continuous awareness. So we extrapolate our memories in the future and we generate creative solutions. In this direction we cooperate with organizations, academia and institutes.

Next to success of previous years Dr.C has been formalized in 2004 when the FP6 SEAROUTES project was successfully completed. The homonym spin-off company established with a funding of 300 K€ from General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT). The same year Dr.C participated in the EU coordination action for efficient and environmentally friendly waterborne transport named INMARE. As result Dr.C elected a major participant in EU IP Research Project named FLAGSHIP with a total budget of 1,415,120€ and gained a fund of 690,500€ corresponding to 82 man-months.

Currently Dr.C is participating in 10! Research funded projects with a total budget of 37M€ . Danaos participation is funded with 1.5 M€ corresponding to 2.3 M€ budget. With a sum of 2.5 M€ fund and 5.0 M€ the last years Dr.C is the dominant research institute in European maritime industry and holds a top-ten position national EU research ranking .

Dr.C has been awarded with the most prestigious awards for its innovative activities.

In 2007 was nominated for EU ICT (Information and communication) award. In 2010 was awarded for innovation as national representative from EBA (European Business Awards). In 2011 gained the applied research award in «Greece innovates» PanHellenic competition. In 2012 Dr.C won the highest worldwide distinction, the «Nobel» in Operation Research and management The Franz Edelman award among with INTEL, HP and TNT from Institute of Operation Research and Management (INFORMS)

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We strongly believe in cooperation and we apply the golden rule «total is greater than the sum of parts» Dr.C cooperates with the leading research institutes such as BMT, MARINTEK and MARIN and universities Dr.C investing in applied research implements such as Technical University of Athens, University of creative solutions to Strathclyde, University of Piraeus as well as the main improve ships managment stakeholders in maritime industry including Lloyds, GL, efficiency. As example the Ficantiery, CONSAR, ECSA and others innovative Risk@ssessor "To be or not to be..." is the opening phrase of a dominating in the market is soliloquy in the "Nunnery Scene"] of William utilized by hundrends of vessels with a ROI of Shakespeare's play Hamlet. several M€ Our mission and answer in this dilemma is «to be better».

In this direction of continuous improvement and betterment we share our knowledge and expertise and we invite Experts from science and professional communities to join our forces.

One of our most important core values is the extroversion. Our applied research results would be used as models in other thematic areas. So far we share our creativities questionings, pursuits, solutions, innovations, failures and successes as lessons to be learned

More than 30 published papers are included in our portfolio. Dr.C researchers provide a numerous of presentations and lectures in international conferences and universities.The awarded Operation research in ships management toolkit (ORISMA) is offered to academia as a toolkit for further applied research activities .

We are focused on applied research. In this direction we are working in realization of bona fide developments in favor of business management and operation continuous cost/benefit improvement.

Professor Emeritus Takis Varelas supervises Dr.C since 2004. He majored in chemistry, data metrics, operation research and maritime management. He spent 30+ years in managerial positions in maritime and information corporations and 10+ as professor in Technical university of Crete

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Sofia Archontaki manages research activities of Dr.C since 2004. She is majored in management, operation research and journalism.

She spent 20+ years in maritime managerial positions.

Author of several papers has been honored with the highest distinction in Operation Research in 2012 (Franz Edelman Laureate).

1. PROJECTS COMPLETED FLAGSHIP:

EUR OP EAN F R A ME W OR K F OR EN VIR ON M EN TAL L Y - F R IEN DL Y SH IP O PER AT ION S

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FLAGSHIP was a 53 month, partially EU-funded project, focusing on improvement of safety, environmental friendliness and competitiveness of European maritime transport. The project will contribute to a further increase in the capacity and reliability of freight and passenger services and to a reduction of negative impact from accidents and emissions.

The emphasis of the project is on on-board systems and procedures, ship management systems on shore, impact of new technology on present ship-owner and operator organizations, effective and efficient communication interfaces and impact of standards and regulations.

Project has been successfully completed on May 2012 and Danaos acted as major participant with a total budget of 1,415,120â‚Ź and gained a fund of 690,500â‚Ź corresponding to 82 man-months.

Within the scope of the project we focused s to create a ship compliance advisor for local and international rules and legislation. The primary aim is to create an electronics regulation database that allows users to easily find regulations that are known to apply to them. The system can also help the user by suggesting regulations that may apply to them, and whether they are breaking them.

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2. N ATIONAL F UNDED R ESEARCH P ROJECTS

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Thanks to The wide publicity and the recognition of Danaos research Centre dominance in applied research as award winner in «Greece innovates! » Competition in 2011 we were invited from strong consortia to participate in the same year with proposals in the national call from General Secretariat of Research and technology named «Synergistic 2011» action.

581 proposals have been submitted and initially 85 of them were selected for funding. The first and among the top-ten of them are the two proposals in which Danaos Management participated. Finally additional 65 proposals were approved for funding and the submitted proposal Ecomarine, where Danaos Peripherals was participated, with the highest budget in the action, was approved Consequently all Danaos proposals have been approved with the highest budget and we are now in implementation process

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Danaos Participation

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MARIBRAIN

11_SYN_6_288

1 Noe 2013

29

1.875.000

1.423.000

200.000

125.000

AMINESS

11_SYN_9_1071

1 Jan 2013

24

1.280.000

961.500

280.000

147.500

ECOMARINE

11_SYN_7_104

1 Jan 2013

29

2.464.226

1.416.497

250.000

147.600

5.619.226

3.800.997

730.000

420.100

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University of Athens, Technical University of Athens, University of Patras, Democritus Research centre, University of Athens are indicative partners from academia. On the other hand reputable businesses like Prisma Electronics, FARAD, and IMIS are involved to materialize solutions for energy efficiency, environmental friendliness, operation improvement and human life safety.

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MARIBRAIN

2.1 M AR IBR A IN

The project is focused in research and implementation of an integrated data acquisition system over a wireless sensors network and knowledge administration analyzing remotely the vessel’s operational status and monitoring the efficiency.

Maribrain achieved the highest grade (3.85/4) in the «ΣΥΝΕΡΓΑΣΙΑ 2011» national research call among 585 proposals and at the same time the highest budget of 1.870.000, 00 € The full project title is: "Ship's Health Condition, Operational Status and Performance Remote Monitoring based on wireless sensor network and technical experience management system". The project’s R&D effort will lead to a product / platform aimed to be used by maritime companies that own, manage and operate any type of ships. The goal of the project will be to develop a smart wireless sensor network platform that can be used to monitor a ship status on a 24-7 basis, to apply conditional based maintenance models and services to a maritime company and to allow a maritime company to operate in an environmental friendly way. Condition Monitoring (CM) creates a mechanism for objective feedback on the quality of any work which has been carried out. Focusing only on what needs to be maintained helps create minimal disruption to operations and fewer unnecessary tasks, in turn delivering a more effective maintenance process, improved reliability and business value. The potential benefits of using CM within a condition-based maintenance culture include: improved safety and reliability, optimized scheduling and maintenance costs, fewer unnecessary spares, strips downs and maintenanceinduced failures, reduced uninsured risk. The platform to be developed will combine hardware and software that will allow a smart and easy way of monitoring of critical ship parameters in order to evaluate their operational status and their efficiency.

The adaptability to any type of vessels, the easily expansion, the distributed intelligence, the high ROI and the low installation cost and time are the basic advantages that make our approach unique to the global market. In the scopes of the project are:• The developing of new optical sensors for measuring critical parameters for monitoring the efficiency of the ship, like fuel type indicators, exhausts analyzer and torque meter. The design of a wireless sensor network based on new intelligent multi-sensing devices and fully adoptable to the ships’ environment.

• The developing of a sophisticated experience management system for handling the collected data and lead to automated diagnosis and prognosis software tools.

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Ecomarine

2.2 E C OM AR IN E

The project is approved for funding from GSRT within the scope of «SYNERGASIA 2011» action with the highest budget of 2.464.226 € Objectives of this project are: Maximize electricity production from waste heat recovery (WHR) and Improve electric power quality, through a supplementary static energy recovery unit.

The heat of the exhaust gases can be directly converted to electrical energy wiith the use of a thermoelectric generator (TEG). Fuel consumption as well as emissions will be decreased, improving the efficiency of the marine power system. Super capacitorbased energy storage systems, as an intermediate energy bank for the TEG modules generation. The final system will be tested in lab and in situ to assess its applicability in retrofitting and new shipbuilding operations.

Detailed objectives are: Energy conversion efficiency, with the application of the most effective and robust MPPT algorithms: Power density / Unit mass (objective around 3 kW / kg including filtering and cooling volume) : Power quality improvement: Sustainability: Low maintenance demand : Technologies will minimize the emission of ‘greenhouse’ gasses such as CO2.

As well as Human security aspects shall be part of the analysis : High capacity rapid charge & discharge capacitor storage technology: Modular standardized bidirectional control power interface modules: Adaptation of a modular and scalable approach: Closed control loop embedded software and ruggedized electronic controls: Interfaces to major vessel data buses and repositories and to authorized vessel staff: Analysis of the system sustainability and eco-efficiency: On-board assessment and validation

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AMINESS

2.3 AMINESS: 11SYN_9_1071

Analysis of marine information for environmentally safe shipping Project is one of the top ten projects that has been selected for funding from GSRT within one of the highest budget of 1.280.000 â‚Ź The goal of the AMINESS project is to contribute in the safety, management and monitoring of the sea environment and the Aegean Sea in particular.

Reducing the possibility of ship accidents in the Aegean Sea is important to all economic, environmental, and cultural sectors of Greece. Oil spill cleanups can cost over 1 billion Euros, whereas accidents involving water soluble cargos would result in irrevocable changes to the Aegean ecosystem. Despite an increase in traffic, there are no national-level monitoring policies and ships formulate routes according to their best judgment. However, to reduce their own financial risk, shipping companies would directly benefit from a system that can reduce the possibility of an accident involving their own ship.

The project objective is the development of a web portal offering access to ship owners, policy makers and the scientific community. The portal will be used to (a) suggest vessel and environmentally optimal safe route planning (b) deliver real-time alerts for ships and (c) support policy recommendations. The portal will be based on historical and real-time maritime data, including real-time information for ship position and speed, weather and sea forecasting and land and sea location. Through this web-portal, the project aims directly to reduce the risk of a ship accident and consequently to contribute in the protection of the Aegean Sea. At the same time, the web-portal aims to bring profit to the enterprise partners of the project, mainly by proposing accident risk reducing services to ship owners. The research partners will be given a unique opportunity to advance their methodologies for handling and analysis of huge quantities of heterogeneous spatiotemporal streaming data to assess risk in real time. Any lessons learned from the analysis of the high risk ship traffic of the Aegean Sea are likely to have direct and immediate relevance to policy makers and stakeholders globally.

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3. EU RESEARCH PROJECTS IN PROGRESS

Further to successful completion of the integrated project FLAGSHIP Danaos was invited by strong consortia to participate in several EU FP7 calls. The results are impressive. Seven (7) proposals were approved with extremely high scores for funding from EU. Emar, Mosaic, Ecompliance, Seahorse, Shopera, INCASS and MESA are the names of approved projects covering all the spectrum of ships management activities.

Danaos holds one of the top ten of the national research programs of the European Union and one of the first three positions in the thematic area of shipping

Project SEAHORSE EMAR MOSAIC Ecompliance INCASS SHOPERA MESA Totals

MM 36 36 36 36 36 36 24

Project Danaos Participation Budget Fund Budget Fund 3.360.798 2.515.805 180.600 95.100 5.714.536 3.687.519 354.886 177.443 3.996.280 2.859.690 85.380 45.375 4.590.890 2.814.805 645.656 284.084 4.223.128 2.974.584 253.200 170.400 7.724.822 4.998.972 38.280 20.460 1.996.059 1.996.059 30.709 30.709 31.606.513 21.847.434 1.588.711 823.571

Another 7 proposals have been submitted in the last EU Horizon 2020 call and we estimate to benefit an additional fund of 6 Mâ‚Ź for the next three years.

No doubt the rewards acclaimed success of Dr.C center in applied research are copyrighted to the research team. Although the staffing of the center comparatively few in numbers it victorious competes in international level research institutes and universities.

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3.1 SEAHORSE

Within the aeronautical industry it is critical to have safe and reliable operations in order to prevent accidents and mistakes which can potentially cause a huge loss of life and destruction. In this respect, the aeronautical industry has led the way in terms of understanding and implementing tools, methodologies and systems to combat human error within a system. One such principle which has been highlighted as being particularly successful is the integration and adoption of resilience engineering principles. Resilience engineering within the aeronautical industry has been very useful onboard aircraft where the number of accidents and incidents has been shown to decrease through the utilization of resilience engineering.

In order to achieve successful transfer and implementation of the proven resilience engineering concepts and tools from the aeronautical industry to marine transport, a systematic approach needs to be adopted. Therefore, within the SEAHORSE project it is our aim to TRANSFER the effective and successful safety concepts utilised in the aeronautical industry, adapting and tailoring them to the unique needs of marine transport in the following manner Firstly, the best practices in aeronautical industry with regard to managing errors and non-standard practices will be identified. Then, the current practices in marine transport will be assessed and gap analysis in order to identify any potential gaps that may affect the successful implementation of safety management will be conducted. Finally, a ‘Multi-level Resilient Marine Transport Framework’ will be developed through the adaptation of the identified resilience engineering principles of the aeronautical industry to the unique needs of marine transport.

Through the concepts of the SEAHORSE project it is envisaged that more resilient and safer shipping operations will be achieved.

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3.2 E-COMPLIANCE

ECOMPLIANCE

E-Compliance will build upon strengths created across numerous EU projects in order to facilitate tighter integration and co-operation in the fragmented field of regulatory compliance in the maritime domain. Regulations are created by numerous different bodies, with little co-operation between them. As such, there is a significant lack of cohesion between the vast array of regulations and the possibility of conflicting regulations is very real. By creating a model for managing regulations digitally and creating services for all the different stakeholders, can harmonize these regulations and allow for co-operation between the different stakeholder groups.

Not only will this improve the quality of regulations, but it will also reduce the burden for those having to enforce the regulations as well as those who must comply, resulting in a regulatory regime that is more effectively implemented.

The maritime sector is heavily regulated. The interaction between the national, European and international institutions is a complex subject area. This situation creates inefficiencies in regulation enforcement. On the other hand differing interpretations of regulations creates difficulties for shipping companies to manage compliance at each port of call. The EU e-Maritime initiative is aimed at making maritime transport safer, more secure, more environmentally friendly and more competitive by improving knowledge, facilitating networking and dealing with externalities. A key priority for e-Maritime is supporting authorities and shipping operators to collaborate electronically in regulatory information, management and to address the challenges outlined above.

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Establishment of a cooperation model between regulation setting and enforcement authorities, both for port state control and IMO regulations, for modelling and interpreting regulations, ensuring harmonization across national and organizational boundaries.

Demonstration of automated compliance management by:

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Modelling and delivery of regulations in electronic format Harmonized e-Services for more effective and coordinated enforcement controls and inspections.

E-services in support of the class requirements, particularly on surveys and for ship risk management in upgraded e-Maritime applications.

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3.3 INCASS

The INCASS (Inspection Capabilities for Enhanced Ship Safety) project is a multifaceted project bringing together a range of experienced and dedicated partners in order to tackle the issue of ship inspection, identification of high-risk and sub-standard ships, providing access to information related to ship surveys independent of the ship flag state and inspection regime and moreover incorporate enhanced and harmonized cooperation of maritime stakeholders in order to avoid ship accidents, promote maritime safety and protect the environment (EC 2012). The INCASS consortium aims to bring an innovative solution to the integration of monitoring, inspection, data gathering (including real-time information), risk analysis and management and Decision Support for ship structures, machinery and equipment in an efficient and collaborative manner through the introduction of the following innovative concepts: Enhanced inspection of ship structures based on robotic platforms Providing ship structures and machinery monitoring with real time information Incorporate Structural and Machinery Risk Analysis Advanced/Condition Based inspection tools and methodologies, Reliability and Criticality based Maintenance founded on Condition Based approaches, Enhanced Central Database

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3.4 MOSAIC

The Project aims to investigate two novel ideas concerning ship structures. First the introduction of High Strength Low Alloyed Steels (HSLA ) in specific structural details in order to deal with the major issue of crack initiation and propagation in critical areas of ships and second the replacement of specific structural parts of the ship with composite materials.

Regarding the use of HSLA steels, it has been well documented that today’s merchant ships are prone to crack initiation and propagation in stress concentration areas mostly due to fatigue loads. In this respect it is envisaged to replace Grade A or AH steels by HSLA steels with high toughness properties in specific areas of the ship structure, thereby reducing the risk of cracks developing in stress concentration areas. Concerning the use of composite materials, it is envisaged that they could replace parts of the steel structure, such as superstructures, piping and other non-critical parts. Composite materials can replace steel in certain parts of the ship thereby reducing weight and corrosion effects, without sacrificing structural integrity.

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SHOPERA

3.5 SHOPERA

The 2012 guidelines on the attained Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) for new ships (MEPC.212 (63)) represent a major step forward in implementing the REGULATIONS ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF SHIPS (resolution MEPC.203 (62)). There are, however, serious concerns regarding the sufficiency of propulsion power and of steering devices to maintain the maneuverability of ships in adverse conditions, hence the safety of ships. This gave reason for additional considerations and studies at IMO (MEPC 64/4/13). Furthermore, whereas present EEDI regulations concern the limitation of toxic gas emissions by ship operation, what is a new constraint in ship design and operation, it necessary to look holistically into this and find the right balance between efficiency, economy, safety and greenness. The aim of the proposed research project is to address the above by: further development and refinement of high fidelity, hydrodynamic simulation software tools for the efficient analysis of the maneuvering performance and safety of ships in complex environmental conditions; Performing sea keeping/ maneuvering model tests in combined seaway/wind environment for different ship types, to provide the required basis for the validation of results obtained by numerical simulations, whereas full scale measurements available to the consortium will be exploited; Integrating validated software tools into a ship design software platform and set-up of a multi-objective optimization procedure; Investigating the impact of the proposed new guidelines on the design and operational characteristics of various ship types; investigating in parallel the impact on EEDI by the developed integrated/holistic optimization procedure in a series of case studies; development of new guidelines for the required minimum propulsion power and steering performance to maintain maneuverability in adverse conditions; preparing and submitting to IMO a summary of results and recommendations for further consideration.

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3.6 EMAR

EMAR

The e-Mar project aims to empower the European maritime sector in offering efficient quality shipping services fully integrated in the overall European transport system over an upgraded information management infrastructure. eMar approach will facilitate extensive participation of the European maritime public, business and research community in a knowledge development process leading to the specification of the e-Maritime Strategic Framework.

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A number of market surveys to be conducted by a leading company in this field to identify business drivers and requirement priorities of different stakeholder groups Stakeholder needs analysis, using knowledge of technology and architectural capabilities from related research projects such as MarNIS, Freightwise, EFFORTS, Flagship, and SKEMA etc. to identify new processes and functionalities.

Identification of implications for standardization and standardization strategies for areas that cannot be relied upon being developed in other places.

Measures to address legal and organizational inconsistencies at national and regional levels, human factors and change management issues.

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3.7 MESA

Maritime Europe Strategy Action (MESA – FOSTER WATERBORNE), main strategic objective (in line with WATERBORNETP) is to strengthen the effectiveness of the research and innovation capacities of the European maritime industry, by: - Optimization of the European maritime RDI strategies - Improvement of the stakeholders network, of the dissemination, of the use of the research results, and increasing the visibility of the R&I findings - Fostering the definition of the maritime R&I transport policies MESA, is Providing support to the WATERBORNE TP work, enlarging and maintaining it, 

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Identifying 4 major themes (implemented via Thematic Technology Groups on Energy Efficiency, Safety, Production, E-Maritime) performing an in depth analysis and assessment of the achievements at EU and National level, to foster future strategic lines in research and innovation, Updating the strategic research agenda and creating an innovation agenda contributing to close the gaps between research and market uptake, Enhancing a network for the exchange of ideas and priorities, (5) acting as major player for dissemination raising waterborne value chain profile and visibility in Europe.

Foresight activity will provide market, societal and regulatory trends studies, contributing to transport RDI policies. A Integration Group will issue Strategic documents for the waterborne sector: VISIONS2030, Strategic Research Agenda, Innovation Agenda, Implementation Plan, homogenizing findings of the Thematic Technology Groups and the Foresight. A comprehensive communication strategy will be implemented including coverage of the TRA2014, 2016, Technology Workshops, Major Conferences, Newsletter, Brokerage Events, Show Cases of successful projects, TRIP liaison, etc.

MESA involves 28 partners, (industrial, research, education, associations) ensuring the widest possible participation accustomed to work together since many years, in the majority of EU projects and in the WATERBORNE-TP

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4. C OLLABORATIVE P ROJECTS

Dr.C is realizing the ORISMA initiative of application of operation research methodologies and models in ships management. By extension of the two coordinates, the number of vessels from one to whole fleet and the time horizon from couple of weeks to several months we increase the problem complexity and the utilization and development of operation research models is imperative. The maximizing fleet revenue with voyage planning optimization has been completed in 2012 and utilized from Danaos Shipping and other ship management companies with impressive results. New optimization models for vessel inspection, bunkering plan are in development phase. The crew planning is the system that has been alive from the beginning of this year welcoming with satisfaction from the market

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4.1 O P T IM I Z IN G

LO NG T E R M F LE E T W I DE

CREW PLANNING

Summary: System is the unique long term maritime crew planning and assignment optimization that Danaos Corporation envisaged, Danaos Management has implemented and Danaos Shipping deployed as an enrichment of its ORISMA (Operation Research in Ship Management) toolkit. The major novelty in this system is the extension of the two coordinates, the number of vessels from one to whole fleet and the time horizon from couple of weeks to several months.

Another initiative is the addition of a third dimension the teamwork index of the vessels’ management team. As assignment optimization problem the definition of an objective assignment function that should be optimized is required. We analyzed the problem and found out the formulas and the variables that are needed for the calculation of coefficients in the identified individual objectives that are combined in a weighted multi-objective assignment penalty function. The extension of coordinates and the team-working dimension increases the problem complexity and is hard to achieve optimal solution with conventional heuristics. So we combine operation research genetic and muliti-index axial integer models, efficient assignment algorithms and, new developed ones into one model adjusted to specific problem requirements.

System also supports strategic decisions regarding the depth determination of the availability officers’ pool, the entries’ attributes such as rank, performance, availability and nationality avoiding in one hand unfeasible solutions and keeping on the other the safety pool level as less as possible. Furthermore an alert mechanism generates the appropriate triggers for actions whenever safety levels are reached and suggests mitigation plan.

From design point of view the most important novelty of the ORISMA approach is the usage of ship officers’ quadruplet as the monitoring entity instead of the individual ship officer.

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5. D R .C

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R EFERENCES

E-rules modeling to support e-compliance management D. Theodosiou | European Maritime Day | May 2010

The erotic triangle: Research innovation and Entrepreneurship Takis Varelas | Pan-orama | May 2013

Simulation in intelligent management systems Varelas –Archontaki - Dimotikalis - Moutsikopoulou Greece Innovates! | Applied research award 2011

Orisma: Operation Research in Ships Management Varelas - Archontaki – Turan-Lazakis - Dimoticalis Edelman award 2012: Excellence OR in practice

FLAGSHIP B5 Rules compliance video |BMT – Danaos | May 2012

Several published articles, papers, newsletters including Interfaces, ELNAVI, Engineering insight may be viewed and downloaded

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6 EU P ROJECTS COMPLETED IN THE PAST

6.1 MARIN-ABC 89.04.01-90.12.31 | Completed | R1062 Coordinator: Entwicklungszentrum fuer Maritime und Industrielle Technik Objective: The aim is to demonstrate the benefits of the use of mobile ship-to-shore communication to give shore-based experts the possibility to assist the crew to solve non-routine maintenance and repair problems. In addition to voice and data the transmission will include still and full motion video. Unlimited mobility requires the use of satellite links. The new 'high speed data' service presently being prepared by Inmarsat opens far-reaching opportunities in this area.

6.2 ACME Adaptive control of marine engines in heavy weather and ship man oeuvres ACME |01.01.96-31.12.99 | Completed | BRPR950091 Coordinator: Danaos Shipping Co

Objective: methods development enabling examination of the dynamic behavior of the propulsion installation in advance, during the ship design stage. The development of engine adaptive control schemes and governor algorithms allowing maximum exploitation of power plant capabilities in all ship operating conditions.

Methods and schemes verification by full scale ship-board testing.

6.3 M ASS Human element in man/machine interface and interaction to improve safety and effectiveness transport for the European fleet …………

01.01.96-31.12.99 | Completed | WA-95-SC.0268 Coordinator: CENTRO PER GLI STUDI DI TECNICA NAVALE Objective: To improve human behavior on board ships with special attention to emergency situations, by providing practical tools and solutions which can be readily implemented in order to enhance on-board and on-shore management and improve the working condition of shipboard personnel.

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This would involve devising appropriate tools and procedures for effective man/machine interface so as to reduce the impact of human element in marine incidents.

These objectives will include also the proper ISM code manual as well as the new STCW impact evaluation and will be pursued through the development of several co-ordinate and linked work task, which comply with the terms of reference of the EU work program.

6.4 L IFETIME

Low in fuel and emissions two-stroke intelligent marine engine 01.04.00-30.6.03 | Completed | G3RD-CT-2000-00245 Coordinator: Danaos Shipping Co Objective: The LIFETIME project considers the problem of large marine engine performance degradation and emissions increase in time. This problem is compounded by the fact that a conventional marine engine has optimum matching fixed at a certain operating regime. The target of the project is to develop control systems able to optimize engine performance with the emissions level as an optimization constraint. A series of systematic shipboard measurements and test bed experiments, followed by detailed simulations of power plant operation, will allow the development of new control schemes, which will be implemented in engine control systems. These will be installed on board a ship with an intelligent engine and also a ship with ultra-large bore engine. Moreover, a performance/emissions observer system based on the same technology will be installed on board a ship with conventional engine. Systems functionality will be examined by full-scale sea passage tests.

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SEAROUTES

6.5 S EAROUTES

Advanced decision support for ship routing based on full-scale ship-specific responses as well as improved sea and weather forecasts including synoptic, high precision and real time satellite data 01.01.01-30.3.04 | Completed | G3RD-CT-2000-00309 Coordinator: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN Objective: Constantly improving forecasts of sea state and sea weather, including near real-time data from high resolution and high precision altimeter satellites, shall be integrated into advanced decision support systems for captains and ship management concerned with routing performance of specific ships. Fast container and ferry vessels and super-fast mono hulls and catamarans will be dealt with in particular. Routing performance should be optimized in order to increase safety, economics, reliability and environmental friendliness of sea transport. Transport links to be investigated are intercontinental (North Atlantic) and European short sea shipping routes.

6.6 I NMARE Technologies and Methodologies for Safe, Environmentally-friendly and Efficient Operations of the future TCA3-CT-20036-506427 | Completed | 01.04.2004-31.03.2006 Coordinator: CONSAR S.r.l Objective: Under the increasing pressure of the public opinion, the market and Authorities of European Union, there is a growing attention to the waterborne transport as a solution to reduce the increasing pressure of the road transport in freight and passenger and to enhance the reliability and safety level of waterborne transport services. As consequence, in the next future ship-owners will be requested to provide a higher quality, reliable, safe and secure service both for increasing the absorption of traffic share and for providing a more efficient and reliable service, also through the effective integration of the maritime transport in a complete intermodal chain. To fulfill these demands, a greater effort in research and development is the most appropriate way to promote progress of the scientific and technological level of waterborne transport and to encourage a wider application of the so defined "best practices" among ship-operators. Main value of the InMare C.A. is to build a wide round table of the different maritime transport's actors (ship-yards, systems makers, etc.), leaded and steered by the most representative selection of E.U. shipoperators with the goal to trace the way to the ship-operation of the future.

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Danaos Research projects in progress Roadmap

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