16-day Brazil-to-US-Gulf transit on a tanker, October–November 2018. A benign-weather voyage: both the optimised track and the historical replay stayed entirely within Sea State 3–4 (peak significant wave height 2.21 m optimised, 2.16 m historical, mean 1.40 m). With no weather window to route around, the gains compress – the optimised track was 46 nm shorter, 3 hours faster, and burned 1.67% less fuel (350.48 vs 356.44 MT). A reference case for what routing optimisation delivers on a calm-conditions voyage.
How the voyage performed across wave height and Douglas Sea State exposure — recorded waypoint-by-waypoint.
Waypoint-by-waypoint against the historical AIS baseline.
The historical AIS track was pulled from public records and matched against the master’s own reports. The VF Engine then re-routed the same vessel under the weather as it actually occurred — not a forecast. Both tracks were scored by the same FOC prediction model and compared waypoint by waypoint. The 1.67% reduction is the delta sailed at the same speed band, under the same wind and wave conditions.
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