Sperry Marine and DNV GL to share digital navigation data

UK-based Sperry Marine, an integrated bridge system and electronic navigation provider, is to share navigation data securely from its digital bridge platform, SperrySphere, with DNV GL. The move will help to streamline the class survey inspection process by providing the classification society with data from a ship’s bridge which can then be used to assess the condition of key equipment and assess the performance of software and hardware.

James Collett, managing director of Sperry Marine, commented: “This agreement with DNV GL to provide access to Sperry Marine’s secure digital bridge platform will make our customers’ vessels more efficient while also improving their safety at sea.”

The company’s digital bridge platform, SperrySphere, holds securely integrated navigation and vessel performance applications, combining access to navigation systems with a secure data link to the navigation bridge equipment and fleet operation centres ashore to improve safety and reduce vessel operating costs.

Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO of DNV GL – Maritime, said: “We are very pleased to partner with Sperry Marine, who share our commitment to ensuring digitalisation in shipping, with all its benefits, is able to advance in a safe and reliable manner. Data is a key future currency supplementing the safe and well-known practices on which shipping relies. In enabling customers to use data securely via the SperrySphere, we can access and offer more class services digitally, helping our customers to safely reduce costs and optimise operations.”