Sofar Ocean owns and operates the world's largest open-ocean weather monitoring buoy network. This drastically increased real-time weather knowledge enables the most accurate maritime weather forecasts anywhere on the globe.
The Wayfinder system inputs our best-in-class maritime weather forecast into a proprietary route optimization algorithm that takes into account safety considerations, ship modeling, time charter rates, and fuel consumption customized by the operations team to produce the objectively optimal vessel operating parameters.
The output is route waypoints and vessel speed profiles delivered to the captain on a daily basis via email and the Wayfinder web application based on the most accurate and up-to-date data.
The Wayfinder application empowers shipping operations with the following benefits: