We do not sell black boxes. The methodology that produces a 13% fuel saving on a Sikka–Niterói voyage is published, named, and signed by the people who built it. Here are the papers and whitepapers.
How VesselFront's 22-million-node adaptive hex grid balances meteorological accuracy, coastal safety margins, and computational efficiency. The geometry of the routing graph determines whether the solution can capture meteorological reality — or smear it.
"The geometry of that graph determines whether the routing solution can capture meteorological reality."
The VFWR optimization framework uses A* pathfinding with weather-aware heuristics, validated against 100 historical voyages with a 23-second median calculation time. Re-routing runs at six-hour intervals throughout each trip.
"Re-routing is performed at six-hour intervals throughout the trip."
An ANN-based fuel-consumption model trained on four years of vessel telemetry. Voyage segmentation, drifting/canal/port removal, and fuel-type filtering produce a clean RPM signal that drives the prediction layer.
"The work on voyage segmentation, drifting/canal/port removal, fuel type filtering produced a clean RPM signal."
The team behind these papers takes briefings from operators, charterers, and underwriters.