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Sign upOctober 5, 2023
Alizés / Jifmar Group
Marseille
Canopée, a 121-meter roll-on / roll-off vessel to transport Ariane 6 spacecraft components between Europe and French Guiana while minimising fuel consumption, emissions, and operating costs. Developed by Neptune Marine with support from Groot Ship Design, Zephyr & Borée, VPLP and the Jifmar Group, its design was optimised through D-ICE’s routing studies since 2018, improving sail configurations, propulsion, hull efficiency, and cargo acceleration. Canopée also integrates OCEANiCS, an advanced navigation system by D-ICE, with voyage planning, weather routing, autopilot, and real-time performance monitoring. Implemented in July 2023, the OCEANWINGS© technology completed the boat optimisation by including four automated, collapsible vertical wings, each 37 meters tall with a surface area of 363 square meters. OCEANiCS uses a high-fidelity digital twin and algorithms to optimise navigation, making it the first certified autopilot to integrate hydrodynamic and aerodynamic models compatible with OCEANWINGS©.
Advanced navigation algorithms cut energy consumption by 15% by improving autopilot precision and fuel efficiency, while optimized routing doubled wind propulsion performance in hybrid sail-engine systems. These upgrades reduced maintenance costs, extended component lifespan, and lowered environmental risks through enhanced situational awareness. Socially, the system reduced crew fatigue and error with a user-friendly interface, boosted equipment use through active crew engagement, and improved performance via regular updates driven by user feedback.
Weather analysis and routing have become very important on ships like the Canopée, and its native interfacing inside OCEANiCS providing ECDIS and autopilot is crucial for longterm and regular use.
Victor Depoers, Technical Director at Zephyr & Borée
Due to new IMO regulations and social environmental awareness, sustainability and fuel consumption reduction are becoming the priority of the shipowners. Also, shipping is an extremely competitive sector and operational expenditures are being stretched by all means. For example, fuel consumption represents around half of the operational costs for the biggest shipping companies (between 5 and 10 million euros per year per ship). D-ICE is working on a high-end system, OCEANiCS, tailor-made with specific functions for hybrid ships. With one single system, mariners will be able to do navigation; from nautical charts management and planning, weather routing, autopilot, monitoring and optimization.
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