Navigator Gas joins ShippingLab: strengthening real-world innovation

Recently, ShippingLab expanded its platform with the addition of Navigator Gas as a new project partner. Navigator Gas contributes valuable data, operational insights, and testing opportunities to an ongoing project where end-user involvement is crucial to ensuring solutions are practical and fit for real-world applications.

The participation of shipowners in ShippingLab projects is essential for gathering hands-on experience, qualifying results, and ensuring that solutions can be applied under realistic conditions. When end-users share knowledge, data, and experience, projects become more practice-oriented – and create greater value for the entire industry.

“ShippingLab exists for the benefit of Blue Denmark and is driven by the needs and ambitions of the maritime sector. One of our greatest strengths is the broad engagement of partners across the entire maritime value chain, and our focus is on developing solutions that work in practice. I am very happy to welcome Navigator Gas, whose participation confirms that our projects are relevant and meaningful to end-users – and when shipowners contribute data, knowledge, and the opportunity to test solutions in real operations, it significantly strengthens both the quality and applicability of the outcomes. It makes our joint development efforts even stronger and creates great value for all partners,” says Magnus Gary, Project Director at ShippingLab.

Predictive engine maintenance

Navigator Gas has joined a project focused on digital twins and predictive maintenance of marine engines. The project is part of SLGREEN and is led by the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and MAN Energy Solutions. The aim is to develop intelligent decision-making tools that can predict wear, optimise maintenance, and reduce the risk of engine failure and costly downtime.

“The project fits well with our focus on safety, reliability, and efficiency. By contributing both data and real-world experience, we can help strengthen the project while also gaining new insights ourselves. Ultimately, it’s about using data to make better decisions, plan proactively, and create a more efficient and reliable operation. At the same time, participating in ShippingLab offers a unique opportunity to share knowledge and experiences in an open, trust-based environment – creating a space for exchange that goes beyond what’s typically possible in commercial partnerships,” says Meinte van der Brug, Head of Operational Integrity at Navigator Gas.

Navigator Gas adds valuable operational expertise to ShippingLab’s growing partner ecosystem – helping ensure that solutions developed through the platform are grounded in real-world conditions and ready to support the digital and green transition of the maritime industry.

ShippingLab is supported by Innovation Fund Denmark, the Danish Maritime Fund, Lauritzen Fonden, and DS Norden. In addition, partners contribute through co-financing.

For further information, please contact:

Magnus Gary, Project Director, ShippingLab
Phone: +45 40 95 07 14
Email: mg@shippinglab.dk

Meinte van der Brug, Head of Operational Integrity, Navigator Gas
Phone: +45 24 21 76 65
Email: meinte.vanderbrug@navigatorgas.com