Bridge Watch: Weather Routing for Optimal Voyages

Weather routing helps shipping companies reduce costs, save fuel, and operate safely, optimizing each and every voyage. 

In this week's Bridge Watch Corey Ranslem, CEO Dryad Global catches up with David Cannon, Director of Yacht Operations / Meteorologist Racing / Tournament Specialist from Weather Routing Inc.

They discuss why the importance of understanding weather patterns is so important to ensure the safety of life, cargo and vessels at sea and the benefits of the efficient routing of vessels. Each and every transit should have a customized plan with recommendations for a vessels' transit to optimize safety and fuel efficiency.

The maritime industry faces significant and dynamic threats in many parts of the world. Your planning processes require you to juggle and prioritise information from multiple sources quickly, understanding and processing regional, contextual and emergent events. Missing information or making the wrong assumption about a routing could have serious commercial consequences.

When operating in high threat regions, with complex security dynamics, Dryad Global strongly recommend the use of a bespoke Transit Risk Assessment.

The Safety of Life at Sea for all crew members and the protection of assets takes absolute priority.

It is for that reason Dryad Global offers clients an industry leading Risk Assessment service operated by real people contactable 24/7.

Our Transit Risk Assessments are a highly detailed route and port access risk analysis. It provides you with the context, current threats to maritime security and recommendations to operate in as safe and commercially viable manner as possible. Human analytical power goes into every one of our assessments looking into the specific threat profile to your people and assets.

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