How virtual training reduces CO2e in the shipping industry
What they needed
- Obviate the need for seafarers to take long, carbon-intensive flights
- Reduce the thousands of dollars and hours spent on travel to and from training facilities every year
- Eliminate the risk of transmitting Covid-19 between seafarers during training
The solution we created
A comprehensive step-by-step virtual reality training simulator of the deck of an EPS ship.
Certified by Lloyds Register as an Approved Training Course, no seafarers need to spend time nor money to travel by carbon-intensive flights to on-site training facilities and risk Covid-19.
Key Results
CO2e reduction
Every year on just one training module, since starting
Decrease in cost
The training module reduces the training cost per person with 75%.
Return on Investment
Development cost is half the one years spendature on training.
"We benefit from significant savings in time, money, and carbon emissions, improved knowledge retention and that our trainees are simply having more fun meanwhile learning in a safe environment, where it is OK to make mistakes and learn from them."

Claus Nehmzow, Chief Innovation Officer.
Eastern Pacific Shipping
How it works
A seafarer straps on a VR headset from home, office, hotel, or anywhere else, and immediately they find themselves on the deck of a virtual EPS ship. Here they find the LNG pump and all the manifold equipment required for completing the whole LNG bunkering procedure.
They see avatars of instructors and fellow classmates training alongside them, working together and talking about what they are experiencing and learning. They can collaborate with each other to complete the operation and develop their teamwork skills, better preparing them for the real-life LNG bunkering operation.
They learn what NOT to do in real-life too. Incorrect execution of procedures results in the pump equipment exploding and dramatically ending the virtual training scenario, demonstrating the consequences of mistakes.
When they have completed the simulation, they are prompted with their own data, informing them about their performance. Instructors can use that data, to evaluate trainee’s performance and give feedback. Trainees can then run the simulator again and increase performance.
About Eastern Pacific Shipping
Eastern Pacific Shipping is a leading shipping company based in Singapore for 30 years. With 5,000 employees working towards establishing a green technology-driven growth to be the safe and efficient transportation provider of choice within the shipping industry.