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RINA opens fleet operating centre in Piraeus

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Italian classification society, RINA has opened a Fleet Operating Centre (FOC) in newly expanded offices in Piraeus as it further strengthens its presence in Greece.

The new centre will allow the society to manage RINA classed vessels even more accurately and efficiently all over the world.

Paolo Moretti, RINA Services ceo’ said: “We are now fully into the future of shipping. Data monitoring and analysis platforms provide powerful analytical capabilities to extract value and business insights from data. The way class societies work is changing, their ability to provide the shipping industry with additional services targeted at efficiency, safety and sustainability will be of paramount importance for the whole sector.

“That’s what we’re aiming at by making the Fleet Operating Centre in Piraeus available to Greek shipowners, supporting strategic decisions and driving operational excellence,” said Moretti.

Further, RINA has relocated deputy evp for the Marine Business, Massimo Volta, to Greece.

The centre will make it possible to integrate, in real time and on a single platform, ship records and certificates, ship plans, manuals and calculations, with data from the shipboard automation and meteo-marine information, Port State control statistics, piracy areas, ECA and SECA areas, navigational alerts, availability of service suppliers and many more from external sources. The ship’s KPI will also be able to include inputs from the owner’s ERP system, such as crewing data.

The ship’s performance monitoring will be completed with optimisation analytics, based on both historical data and AI-powered predictions.