Slow Steaming: Fuel Saved vs Extra Days, and the Best Speed
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You calculate the sea days, daily burn, fuel cost and TCE of the voyage at nine speeds from 10 to 14 knots, find the speed with the highest TCE and chart the curve.
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Lessons in this course
- Voyage Distance and Sea Days: Nautical Miles, Knots and Voyage Duration Locked
- Bunker Consumption and Cost: the Speed-Consumption Cube Rule Locked
- Port Costs and Canal Dues: Disbursements and a Tiered Toll Locked
- Voyage P&L and Time-Charter Equivalent (TCE) per Day Locked
- Slow Steaming: Fuel Saved vs Extra Days, and the Best Speed Locked
- Laytime and Demurrage: from Statement of Facts to the Claim Locked
- Container Freight per TEU, Utilisation and Break-even Locked
- CO₂ per Tonne-Mile and Carbon Cost Locked