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Datatrac's Aims

Datatrac's aim is to help clients achieve successful completion of compliance tasks and, at the same time, to have irrefutable proof that they have done so, without paper and typing. Data is collected as part of normal operational tasks.

Client Benefit

Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc.

A market leader in global energy transportation services, OSG owns and operates a fleet of more than 100 international flag and U.S. flag vessels that transport crude oil, refined petroleum products and gas worldwide. OSG has purchased two innovative systems from Datatrac Limited; one to allow the generation of engine room logs electronically (EERL), another, Envirotrac, to track the integrity of the vessel waste stream systems. These applications are now being installed across the OSG Fleet.

Tackling the Problems of a Falling Market

The "boom" years of 2004 to 2008 have now been followed by the inevitable "bust"; how bad and how long it is going read more >

Engine Room Data Reporting on OSG Fleet

Datatrac Limited, a Systems Integration Company formed in 2001, today announced that Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. read more >

Data collection in gaseous environments

Systems integration concern Datatrac has developed an intrinsically safe (IS) e-Tag Reader and system application... read more >

Industry Problems - where Datatrac Applications can help

A cargo ship foundered and four crewmen lost their lives, when a seawater-cooling pipe in the engine room burst and the engine had to be stopped. The ship was blown onto a lee shore where it broke up on the rocks.

Cost - four lives and $1m.

Corroded seawater pipes connecting directly to the shell are often wrongly repaired with a doubler. Doublers should not normally be used to repair shell plating. Bulk fertiliser was damaged when water escaped from a topside ballast tank via a sounding pipe that passed through the tank into the hold below. The pipe was cracked and holed
inside the ballast tank which contained saltwater ballast and water drained from the tank into the hold.

Cost - $380,000.

Damaged sounding pipes are easily identified during inspections and repairs are inexpensive.

Insurance Claims on Vessels that could have been prevented

Failed pipes cause, or contribute to, many serious claims.
• Bagged grain on a small bulk carrier was damaged after water escaped from an air pipe running between a ballast tank and the cargo hold. The pipe had a corrosion crack where it
connected to the tank top and water escaped through the crack when the ballast tank was overfilled. The ship was 18 years old, but nothing had ever been done to protect the pipe from corrosion; not even a lick of paint.

Cost - $120,000. Repairs to the pipe would have cost less than $50.

Datatrac applications can prevented many of these types of accidents

• A diesel alternator caught fire after a low-pressure fuel oil pipe burst and sprayed oil onto the exhaust manifold. The pipe had been vibrating, and this movement had caused the pipe’s wall to chafe and become thin.

Cost - a new alternator and $100,000, but the fitting of a pipe support would have cost a mere $2!

• A product tanker was gravity ballasting into a segregated tank. The ballast line passed through a cargo tank. When ballast stopped flowing, a corrosion hole in the line allowed oil to escape into the sea through an open valve.

Cost - $975,000.

By careful monitoring and providing an official audit trail on the monitoring of keyareas within the vessel.