OMC has developed award-winning e-Navigation technology to improve transit for large commercial ships in draft restricted entrance channels and waterways, the Dynamic Under-keel Clearance System. DUKC® determines and manages a ship’s Under Keel Clearance dynamically and in real-time, and is the only independently validated and widely operational real-time under keel clearance management technology.

DUKC® has assisted more than 120 port facilities, terminals, and waterways safely and efficiently conduct more than 160,000 deep draft transits. Utilising state of the art modelling, forecasting, and data assimilation techniques that have been proven against more than 550 full scale vessel measurements, DUKC® is the world’s most comprehensive and extensively validated UKC management system.

DUKC® is also used extensively for channel design and dredge optimisation. Integrated port planning, real-time operations, and dredge optimisation through DUKC® has allowed ports to realise dredging cost savings of up to 90%. Overall dredge volume requirements, and the associated environmental impacts, are also minimised. A recent example combining an operational DUKC® with DUKC® optimised channel design allowed a client to reduce their dredged area by 90,000m2, and the channel depth by 0.6m to 1.4m.

In addition to DUKC®, the services and systems provided by OMC to our clients include:

• Optimised channel dredging design and planning
• Under-keel clearance studies
• Horizontal navigation and vessel manoeuvrability studies
• Fast time simulations using SimFlex4 from Force Technology
• Full scale vessel motion measurement and analysis
• Probabilistic analysis and risk assessments
• Operational static UKC management (KeelCheck)
• Measured & forecast environmental data displays (PortWeather)
• Optimisation of Port throughput using our Dynamic Port Capacity Model
• Mooring analysis – deep sea, CBM, conventional and suction pad mooring systems
• Moored vessel motion and mooring line warning systems (Berth Warning System, BerthAlert)
• Hydro/meteo analysis, modelling and forecasting
• Hydro/meteo data processing and quality assurance