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Marlink connects OFW Ships to enhance operational
efficiency and crew welfare on unique marine bottling
plant vessel November 14, 2019 The innovative,
eco-friendly French company OFW Ships has
chosen Marlink to provide a multi-band
connectivity solution, combining
high-throughput global VSAT with an L-band
back-up for connectivity redundancy. OFW stands for ‘Ocean
Fresh Water’, reflecting the company’s
simple but profound purpose: to sustainably
convert saltwater into drinks. With 7.3
billion people on the planet, water is an
over-exploited, increasingly precious
resource in more and more places globally.
However, an OFW Ships vessel equipped with a
seawater selected filtration system and
bottling plant will be able to produce
2,500,000 liters of premium drinks every
week. Pure and mineral-rich
saltwater is drawn from the high seas, then
filtered to remove sodium chloride while
preserving naturally occurring minerals. The
processed deep sea water is bottled,
packaged and stored on board, then delivered
to port, after which the vessel’s five-day
production cycle begins again. OFW Ships’
environmental consciousness incorporates a
promise to recover as many empty bottles as
full ones delivered. The collected bottles
will subsequently be recycled and
transformed on board into pallets to be used
for ensuing deliveries. The overall process
divides by 10 the average carbon footprint
of a bottle of water. The adoption of
Marlink’s multi-band connectivity will help
OFW Ships to provide seamless crew
connectivity including enabling crew to use
their own devices onboard. This is an
important factor because only specially
hired, technically qualified crew can ensure
the successful completion of all technical
tasks on board. Greater operational
efficiency will be achieved by operating in
a more satcom-enabled digital maritime
environment and by adapting new applications
for smarter decisions and on-board safety. OFW’s contract with
Marlink is based on the multi-band
combination of global Ku-band Sealink VSAT
with L-band back-up, which ensures seamless
global coverage and connectivity in all
maritime conditions. The service comes with
a Committed Information Rate (CIR)
establishing a bandwidth guarantee to ensure
enough throughput is available for critical
applications used for operations and safety.
Network control and crew account management
will be handled cost-effectively by
Marlink’s XChange communication management
platform. “OFW Ships'
environmentally responsible mission is a
very timely and intelligent solution to an
urgent global problem,” says Tore Morten
Olsen, President Maritime, Marlink. “It is
very exciting for us to support this project
by a true green shipping company that is
making such an important contribution to
creating a more sustainable model for the
future, with our connectivity solutions.”
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