Vessel Utilisation – Part 4: An overview of bespoke post processing

Introduction

So far in this series we have prepared and run a number of simulations and considered the results in Mermaid, all with the aim of answering the question:

“When should we take the trenching vessel on hire, relative to the installation vessel?”

We saw in the last post that our base case offset (32 days) is a fairly good position, however, we think there might be opportunity to improve on this.  The issue we have is that our post-processing requirement is outside the type of charts and tables offered by Mermaid.  Read more >