Route99 is designed for users within LLPG such as operators, ship owners, traders, oil companies and consultants who are actively involved in planning and analysing sea borne transportation of LPG
An executive introduction to R99 within LPG
Demo run for a fleet of 5 LPG vessels trading on eleven different trade routes in Atlantic basin illustrates the usage of R99 for fleet scheduling. Detailed reports from demo run.
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Various reports generated by Route99:
| Output reports | Input reports |
| Visual schedule | Ship details |
| Voyage summary | Jobs and cargoes to be lifted |
| Voyage details | |
| Tonnage budget | |
| Position list | |
| Allocation of jobs | |
| Pool distribution report |
Screen shots from LPG demo run:
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Ship details |
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Specification of trade routes: load ports, discharge ports, draft restrictions, time in port etc. |
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Core voyage estimator: Is used to check certain calculations. Otherwise R99 uses the voyage calculations in an automatic mode to calculate hundreds and thousands of potential schedules before it arrives at a schedule that gives the optimal solution - NB all the time taking into account the various constraints that are imposed by the scheduler |
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Resulting vessel schedule: For each vessel is listed jobs for voy1, voy 2 etc |
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Visual schedule: Enables the user to work in visual space by dragging and dropping cargoes between various ships and then check feasibility and economical results |
| Input parameters: To control various optimization analysis | |
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Jobs and cargoes to be lifted: Summary of jobs under various contracts and trade routes with laydays |
If vessels are trading in a chartering pool, R99 can generate pool points based on weighting of trade routes, speed/consumption data etc:
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Pool point analysis |
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Graphical presentation of pool points |
Feasibility reports
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Feasibility reports shows all feasible combinations of ships and cargoes |
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Tonnage Balance
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R99 allows analysis of tonnage balance: ship days versus cargo days in order to analyse consequences of going long/short on ships and/or cargoes |