Solutions for Shipping and Offshore

Solutions and Weather Data Tailored to Your Needs

Weather has a high impact on the shipping & offshore industry. The safety of workforce and cargo, delivery punctuality, loading and unloading, and fuel consumption are directly impacted by the effects of extreme events.

Accurate weather information is therefore central to successful business in the shipping & offshore industry and can lead to the realization of competitive advantages.

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Weather API

Get fast and easy access to the entire universe of weather data with our Weather API.

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MetX

Visualize every weather situation to stay ahead and to make better decisions with our Weather Visualization Map MetX.

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EURO1k

European weather model at 1km resolution: get accurate weather forecasts across Europe and make better decisions.

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Why Is Weather Important for the Shipping & Offshore Industry?

Critical Weather Conditions on the High Seas and Ports

The international shipping industry is responsible for the transport of around 90% of world trade. Therefore, weather conditions on the high seas and at ports highly impact the supply chain.

Working with appropriate data to monitor ocean and mainland conditions will help you react in time to:

adjust timetables and routes
increase punctuality
ensure the safety of your workforce and cargo
minimize the structural impacts from weather exposure on your ships
have more efficient fuel consumption
improve loading and unloading efficiency

Weather Data for Sustainable Shipping

Gone are the days of the caravels. Today, ships are powered by petroleum products that release pollutants into the atmosphere.

Oil spills into the ocean are another side effect of shipping activities. Sometimes the accidents’ causes are related to the weather. Extreme weather conditions – such as hurricanes, storm surge, fog, ice flows, or high winds – may impact the course of vessels, leading to collisions.

Weather data will help you:

understand and lower fuel consumption
improve bunker costs
manage carbon intensity levels
prevent accidents

Heather Zimmer
Global Director of Alliances
ABS Wavesight

When it comes to voyage performance and charter party compliance, up-to-date weather data plays a key role. We are now able to overlay the most up-to-date, weather data on the map and have on-demand forecasts for voyages. This allows for operations to react by adjusting timetables and routes, providing efficiencies in fuel consumption, more optimized ordered speed, increased reliability in arrival times and improved navigational safety.

Meteomatics Solutions for Shipping & Offshore

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Weather API

Everything you need on call

Meteomatics Weather API removes the complexity of handling and processing weather data, allowing users to retrieve large volumes of weather data quickly.

Weather API

Our Weather API

Your Benefits

One source, one interface: query multiple parameters simultaneously for single or multiple sites and entire areas.
Query data in real time with a response time of a few milliseconds
Real-time access to over 7 petabytes thanks to unique data processing technology (Meteocache)
"On the fly" downscaling using topographic maps enables 90 meter resolution worldwide, greatly improving accuracy at the local level
High resolution of data per minute
Highest data quality: over 1640 updates per day ensure accuracy and timelines

Weather API

Explore the Power of Our Weather Visualization Map

MetX Visualization Map

With weather maps, weather data can be made accessible to all

MetX is a web-based tool based on the weather API developed by Meteomatics. A weather map is used to display complex weather data and can easily visualize conditions. With our software for the visualization of weather data, we offer you a high-performance solution to gain more insights and thus make better decisions based on the weather situation.

MetX Visualization

MetX

Advantages and Benefits

the calculation of weather data in real time when zooming or changing views
a high spatial resolution of 90 meters: based on the NASA terrain model, measuring points are calculated every 90 meters and the weather data are scaled down accordingly
high temporal resolution of one minute
the possibility to use different maps like topographic maps, border maps, aeronautical maps etc.
the use of layers to display different weather parameters
clear display of up to 4 maps on one screen (quartering of the screen)
data export for each point on the map
individual solutions for your weather map on request

METX VISUALIZATION

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This is how we improve our clients' business with our approach.

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BKW

The weather has a considerable influence on the production of renewable energies. As a relevant influencing factor, it thus affects forecasts for electricity production and also has an impact on electricity trading and the associated sales. In this article, you will learn how the Meteomatics Weather API makes the procurement of weather data at BKW easier, faster and more flexible, thus facilitating the integration of renewable energies into the electricity market.

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Toyota

Weather conditions influence energy consumption in industrial facilities, affecting companies’ operations planning. In this article, we describe how Meteomatics' Weather API helps Toyota manage energy consumption in its European assembly plants and factories, thereby contributing to the conservation of the environment and making financial savings at the same time.

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Airbus

Zephyr, developed by Airbus Defence and Space, offers advanced see, sense, and connectivity capabilities for various customers. This solar-powered, carbon-neutral system relies on high-quality weather data for safe navigation, especially during ascent and descent. Meteomatics provides essential weather data to support Zephyr's operations at all altitudes.

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Stadtwerke Munich

Meteomatics' solar power forecasts improve Stadtwerke München's day-to-day electricity trading business and optimize the integration of solar power into the electricity market.

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Heimdall Power

Weather is one of the strongest factors influencing the capacity of power lines. Therefore, it is of utmost relevance for grid operators to know the current and future weather factors in detail, so that bottlenecks can be prevented, and a dynamic and efficient grid operation is possible. Using senso data from power lines in combination with data from Meteomatics, Heimdall Power can deliver an average increase of 25% in transmission capacity of high-voltage power lines. In this article you will learn how Heimdall was able to realize this improvement.

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Navily

As the summer season starts, recreational boaters set sail. To make their lives easier and their journey safer, Navily offers a recommendation score for anchorages across the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas. In this article, we explain how Meteomatics helps Navily create its recommendation scores, and inform its users about the weather conditions.

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Ogre.AI

Ogre.ai uses Meteomatics’ RESTful API to access one of the world's richest and most accurate weather databases. Meteomatics forecasts are now a key component of Ogre’s ML & AI process: used to generate precise power forecasts and solve key challenges of energy companies across multiple sectors.

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ABS

ABS Wavesight is adding on-demand, high-resolution historical and forecast weather data on its ABS My Digital Fleet™ risk management platform together with Meteomatics.

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Sunflower Labs

Sunflower Labs uses Meteomatics' Weather API to access hyperlocal real-time and forecast weather data, to enable Sunflower Labs’ drones to reliably and autonomously determine whether a planned flight is safe under current and future weather conditions. A prerequisite for operating drones autonomously. Learn why Sunflower Labs chose Meteomatics' API here.

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Hive Power

The findings are stunning: the most accurate weather data and forecasts lead to superior energy generation and consumption forecasts, allowing companies to optimize their energy management, resulting in valuable cost savings, reduced planning risks and better decision making. In this story you will learn how Hive Power realizes these benefits with weather data provided by Meteomatics Weather API.

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OSIsoft

Actemium successfully integrated Meteomatics' weather data API into OSIsoft's PI system. This enables customers to easily integrate Meteomatics weather data directly into their own ERP and data management systems. Actemium was thus able to facilitate the use of Meteomatics weather data for an energy utility company that will use Meteomatics' high-quality data for its energy services in locations with very high temperatures.

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ITEC

Leicom ITEC AG, a member of the Leicom Group, has developed a software driver for the integration of weather data into the Niagara building automation framework.

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ETH Zurich

Clouds are one of the main elements that regulate Earth’s climate. Understanding cloud microphysics is thus paramount to more precise climate projections. In this story, we explain how ETH Zurich’s researchers are using Meteodrones to conduct cloud seeding experiments to study cloud-aerosol interactions and precipitation events.

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Unisphere

Thanks to Meteomatics' high-resolution weather data used in Unisphere's flight management software, Unisphere is improving the safety and efficiency of drone and air taxi flight operations.

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Swiss Academic Space Initiative (ARIS)

Meteomatics Supports Future Swiss Aerospace Engineers With Weather Data

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Defense Applications

Meteomatics' technology improves the accuracy of weather forecasts with in-house developed weather drones and a high-resolution European weather model, helping ensure the success of operations in the air, on land, and at sea.

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We Work With Groundbreaking Companies

We are proud to work with leading companies in the shipping & offshore industry. Together, we realize efficiency benefits, better integration of renewables and help our partners realize digital innovations.