Optimization of Short Sea shipping performance

Moving freights and passengers via shortsea is cheaper and quicker than by road, as well as more environmentally friendly than most conventional transports. Growing demand for ever more efficient services at reduced operational costs requires a completely new approach based on the integration of gap analysis, dynamic simulation modelling and business continuity strategy into a resilience assessment process to deliver the best service performance possible.

The activity is carried out in accordance with the RINA governance model, which safeguards impartiality and prevents conflict of interest situations.

Deliverables

Our solution consists of balanced integration of well-established and innovative services including:

• analysis of ongoing operations including fleet, routes, port calls, etc. (As-Is)
• identification of operative and financial KPIs, such as fuel consumptions, waiting time, delays on schedule, emission, operational costs, and target definition (To-Be)
• definition of strategy towards KPI optimization (route selection, market assessment, competition benchmarking, etc.)
• Gap Analysis comparing actual performance with desired target
• construction, verification and validation of tailor-made dynamic simulation model (WITNESS Horizon)
• assessment of causes for service disruption to ensure timely and cost-effective recovery through the employment of novel approach to resilience management
• run of simulation scenarios to identify optimal solution toward objective and asset resilience enhancement
• action plan leading to service performance optimization and ensuring the business continuity.

Why RINA?

With almost 160 years of experience combining tradition and innovation, our solution has reached the highest maturity to make this demand real and help our Client optimize lead times and cost efficiency.

Main benefits

The Discrete Event Simulation (DES) approach models the individual events that occur at given time intervals, taking into account resources, constraints and the way they interact, allowing for:

• representation of the complexity of a logistic system, assessing the effect of the proposed processes in a risk-free environment

  estimating and foreseeing the dynamic development of the events to identify the optimal solution for the case study

  experimenting alternative ‘what-if?’ scenarios to identify the optimal solution

  demonstrating, estimating and measuring system strategies for effective, efficient and optimized performance long term

  as a result, we provide clients with a reliable decision-making tool customized for the specific needs and targets.