ABB Ability™ Marine Advisory System - OCTOPUS

ABB optimization software for EU-funded ATLANTIS research project will advance remote maintenance of offshore wind farms to reduce costs, increase efficiency and safety, and improve sustainability

Deep waters and rough seas challenge safe carriage of massive offshore windmill parts to installation sites. Heavy lift vessel owners such as OHT increasingly turn to OCTOPUS for decision support that enables safe, efficient operations.

ABB has won a contract to supply the leading-edge digital solution ABB Ability™ Marine Advisory System – OCTOPUS to Roll Group’s latest vessel, BigRoll Biscay

The number of containers shipped at sea has grown roughly tenfold over the past decades, and today’s container carrying capacity for the global container vessel fleet has surpassed 20 million TEU. The number of containers being transported by water is estimated to be 6 to 7 million at any given time. A marginal number of these containers never reach the destination port.

ABB Marine & Ports has established “Electric. Digital. Connected.” as a vision for the maritime industry. Guido Jouret, Chief Digital Officer of ABB, acknowledges these “big three” as the way forward for the maritime industry – and for all of society.

ABB has won a contract to supply an innovative ABB Ability™ Marine Advisory System – OCTOPUS marine software for one of the world’s most advanced floating hotel vessels for offshore operation.

ABB Ability™ Marine Advisory System – OCTOPUS marine software will map the safest and most efficient routes for a fleet of heavy lift vessels servicing the expansion of a giant oil field in Kazakhstan.

ABB technology allowing integration of batteries receives major vote of confidence as Louis Dreyfus Armateurs orders second wind farm service vessel featuring a wide scope of ABB’s solutions.

ABB is providing the shipboard systems and systems expertise that will support the research voyages undertaken by ‘By the Ocean we Unite’, the charitable organisation whose mission is to highlight the damage done by the millions of tonnes of plastics that end up in the world’s oceans every year.

ABB’s Decision Support Software is the most advanced system for decision support during weather sensitive offshore operations. The system is actively used in many different types of offshore operations.