Routing Services

## OPTIMIZE VOYAGES. REDUCE EMISSIONS. ABB’s routing services help ship owners and operators plan safer and more efficient voyages by combining advanced voyage optimization software, real-time weather routing, and expert human insight. Designed to support operational efficiency, safety and sustainability at sea, ABB routing solutions enable informed decisions across voyage planning, execution and monitoring. ## WHY CHOOSE ABB FOR SMARTER, SAFER MARINE ROUTING? ### Digital routing backed by human expertise ### Reduced fuel consumption and emissions ### Improved voyage safety and predictability ## SHIPPING APIS (SHIPPING APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES)

Saving time, fuel, & money by optimizing your voyages with integrated decision support.

### Vessel Routing API With Vessel Routing API, you can - Get safe, navigable routes on-demand. - Improve the accuracy of your ETAs. - Optimize routes by time, fuel, or cost. - Compare available routes with a multitude of options, restrictions, and weather configurations. - Deliver data through your applications via secure, efficient, and reliable infrastructure. The Vessel Routing API supports these navigable routing types: - Fixed speed: an instructed speed where you select your set speed through the voyage to support charter party agreement. - Flexible speed: a recommended speed where you choose the best speed based on a provided range, with the return speed optimized to reach a destination with a flexible ETA. - Variable ETA: uses a variable speed to optimize the voyage and avoid weather threats while helping the vessel reach its destination at the specified time. - Variable speed endpoint: arrive as closely as possible before your target ETA with a route calculation that provides a recommended variable speed along a weather-optimized route. - Smart voyage restrictions: ensure you adhere to local, national, and global maritime regulations, as well as vessel, cargo, and gross tonnage restrictions. Our automatic voyage optimization also helps you avoid passages and canals not suited to specific vessels while respecting maritime fairways and traffic separation schemes. Optimize routes by: - Time: find the fastest way to your destination. - Emissions & fuel: ensure the least amounts to reach the destination, reducing impacts. - Cost: discover the lowest cost considering ECA fuels, daily hire, and more. ### Vessel Insights API Enrich and simplify your vessel performance management system to unlock new value This API continuously provides quality-checked, weather-enhanced performance data along a vessel’s track. It delivers a complete dataset for performance-related use cases through a combination of raw and derived data. Its sources include AIS, noon reports, autolog systems, hindcast weather, digital twin models, and more. A core building block of any vessel performance management system and analytics platform, our Vessel Insights API allows you to create your own customized solutions with greater ease. With this GraphQL API, you’ll have all the required vessel performance data you need at your fingertips, with an easy to maintain, cost-efficient connection. - Accurately estimates fuel consumption and emissions using derived AIS tracks, hindcast weather data, and vessel performance models. - Processes noon report data, automates quality checks, and provides reliable confidence indicators through various noon reporting tools. - Offers insights powered by operational data, advanced vessel digital profiles, high-definition track information, and best-in-class weather hindcast data. - Supports advanced analytics and enhances decision-making confidence through accurate, high-value weather data. ## IT PAYS TO USE ABB ### vessels 15,000 ### coverage 30% ### connected 5,000+ ## ABB’S VESSEL ROUTING API HELPS SOUTH KOREAN SHIPBUILDERS IMPROVE VOYAGE EFFICIENCY AND CUT EMISSIONS AT SCALE By integrating ABB’s vessel routing API into their digital platforms, leading South Korean shipbuilders are enabling smarter voyage planning, reduced fuel consumption and lower CO2 emissions. ## SPEAK TO AN ABB EXPERT Have questions about ABB Ability™ routing services, digital voyage optimization or fleet performance solutions? Submit a general enquiry and our team will get back to you. ## FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Marine routing services support voyage planning and execution by identifying the safest and most efficient route for a vessel. They use weather forecasts, sea conditions and vessel performance data to reduce fuel consumption, improve safety and lower voyage costs. ABB routing services optimize routes and vessel speed based on real-time meteorological data and vessel-specific performance models. This helps reduce unnecessary fuel burn, lower CO2 emissions and support more sustainable maritime operations. ABB Ability™ SPOS (Ship Performance Optimization System) is an onboard route optimization system that provides real-time decision support. It uses weather forecasts, sea state data and vessel performance profiles to continuously optimize voyage routes and speed. SPOS is an onboard digital decision-support tool, while ABB Ability™ Routeguard is an onshore routing service delivered by expert master mariners and meteorologists. Together, they provide a combination of automated optimization and human expertise. Optimal Speed Routing recommends real-time speed adjustments along a planned route. By balancing arrival time, weather exposure and fuel efficiency, it helps vessels reduce fuel consumption, operating costs and emissions without compromising safety. Weather data such as wind, waves, currents and storms has a major impact on fuel use and safety. ABB routing services continuously analyze confirms to support safer routing decisions, reduced weather exposure and more predictable voyages. Yes. ABB routing services are designed for a wide range of vessel types and sizes. Vessel-specific performance models ensure routing recommendations are tailored to the characteristics and operating profile of each ship. Yes. With solutions like ABB Ability™ Fleetguard, operators can monitor weather exposure, routing performance and voyage execution across an entire fleet, supporting fleet-level optimization and decision-making. By combining real-time weather monitoring, expert routing guidance and continuous route optimization, ABB routing services help vessels avoid severe weather, reduce risk exposure and support safer, more predictable voyages.