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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
May. 28, 2013
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Otsuka, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Yamaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Masaharu Urabe, Tokyo, JP;
Ryo Kakuta, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON YUSEN KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A ship assignment device acquires voyage schedule information including an operation time schedule and a sailing route of a voyage. The ship assignment device acquires, from a database, weather information related to the operation time schedule and the sailing route included in the schedule information. The ship assignment device acquires information regarding variations in fuel consumption rate from a database that stores the information for each of plural ships. On the basis of the acquired weather information and acquired information regarding each ship, the ship assignment device calculates the fuel consumption for when each ship sails on the sailing route included in the acquired voyage schedule information in accordance with the operation time schedule included in the voyage schedule information. On the basis of the calculation result, the ship assignment device outputs information identifying plural ships.