The Genoese group ESA (Enterprise Shipping Agency) has acquired from the Norwegian Arribatec, the business unit that develops and supports "Performance", software dedicated to the monitoring of performance of ships and the control of their emissions. The Italian company announced that the transaction was concluded yesterday and provides for the transfer and of the contracts, rights and staff currently involved in its development and of its customer portfolio from IB Srl, a Rapallo acquired at the beginning of 2021 by Arribatec, in Oceanly, a newco established by ESA, with offices in Genoa and Rapallo.

"For us," explained the CEO of the ESA Group, Gian Enzo Duci - this is a strategic acquisition which follows our previous investment in the application from artificial intelligence and machine learning to activities of crew management. The overall project aims at a real and closing the circle with the completion of the services offered by a team that celebrated 75 years of activity in 2022». "Performance," added Duci, "is a software Advanced Ship Performance Monitoring for Savings and related statutory reports. In our opinion and the On the basis of the investment, however, there is additional room for Expansion within a structure that concentrates its core Ship management business: in particular, performance can be further developed in the context of the "shaft power limitation", answering also to the requirements of the new emission regulations that the the shipping world will have to deal with from 2023 onwards."