Reports: PortCaptain
Cost Leadership Tool
Tugboat operations face increasing pressure to reduce costs while maintaining high service availability and meeting environmental expectations. Yet without clear visibility into how resources are used, whether it's fuel, time, or emissions, cost-saving opportunities often remain hidden. The Cost Leadership Tool transforms complex fleet data into clear, actionable insights that help operators benchmark performance, control costs, and maximise asset efficiency.
This module within PowerCaptain offers a focused view on operational utilisation, fuel efficiency, and emission output. It supports data-driven decisions that reduce idle time, highlight inefficient practices, and guide improvement efforts, ensuring that every tug is working smarter, not harder.
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Report overview
How the Cost Leadership Tool can help your business
This report demonstrates how PowerCaptain’s Cost Leadership Tool, developed by LionRock Maritime, provides the insights tug operators need to improve cost control and operational performance. By analysing real-time data on tug utilisation, fuel consumption, and emission intensity, the tool enables more informed planning, smarter deployment, and targeted efficiency improvements.
The dashboard presents comparable metrics across vessels, ports, and operators, making it easy to detect underperforming assets, spot inefficiencies, and identify top performers. By comparing the performance of different operators, the tool highlights who is leading on utilisation and fuel efficiency, providing valuable benchmarks for internal reviews, incentive programmes, and continuous improvement. The result is greater accountability, measurable cost savings, and improved environmental outcomes across the fleet.
Insight 1
Utilisation Assessment
This dashboard visualizes how effectively each tug is used while in port by comparing time spent on active ship assist work versus total port presence. It helps operators quickly identify underutilized assets, spot trends in idle time, and benchmark fleet-wide deployment efficiency.
By exposing disparities in tug activity levels, the utilization assessment supports better scheduling, resource allocation, and performance reviews, essential insights for reducing costs and improving fleet productivity.
Insight 2
Fuel Efficiency Index
The Fuel Efficiency Index provides a clear comparison of how much fuel is consumed relative to the operational output of each tug. It enables operators to evaluate performance by job, vessel, or port, highlighting where excessive fuel use may indicate inefficiencies in handling, route planning, or tug deployment.
This insight helps identify high-performing assets, standardise best practices, and supports fuel-saving strategies across the fleet, all key to improving operational margins in a fuel-cost-sensitive industry.
Insight 3
Emission Efficiency Index
The Emission Efficiency Index measures emissions output in relation to work performed, allowing for an apples-to-apples comparison across tugs, jobs, and ports. It provides a performance-based lens on environmental impact, moving beyond raw emissions totals to focus on efficiency per tonne of work done or per job completed.
This enables operators to track sustainability targets, support ESG reporting, and make informed decisions around equipment upgrades, operational changes, or alternative fuels, without losing sight of operational effectiveness.
Included Reports
Insights we provide:
- Utilization Assessment
- Fuel Efficiency Index
- Emission Efficiency Index
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