VPS acquires the digital services company Yxney Maritime to drive greater sustainability in shipping.

VPS, the world’s leading marine fuel testing company, has acquired Yxney Maritime, specialists in data-driven decarbonisation.  

This acquisition is part of VPS’s strategy to support the marine industry’s efforts to decarbonize and operate more sustainably. It also expands VPS’s growing digital services offering.

Yxney’s advanced analytical software, Maress, provides vessel owners and operators the insight needed to decarbonise maritime operations and help create a more sustainable future.

By joining forces, VPS and Yxney can now serve a bigger market and deliver even greater carbon reductions to every customer.

‘With the increased focus on sustainability, this acquisition of Yxney will help our maritime customers to better understand the impact that every operational activity has on GHG emissions, enabling improved efficiencies and delivery of emissions reductions’

Malcolm Cooper, CEO, VPS

Current and future industry climate targets are creating a real challenge for many ship operators. By incorporating Yxney’s advanced data technologies to the VPS portfolio, immediate business and environmental value can be offered to every customer, and targets can be met faster.

‘Together, and with complementary services, we are creating genuine sustainable transformation through data-driven change’

Simen Sanna Gjord, CEO, Yxney Maritime

The shared vision of VPS and Yxney – of creating a more sustainable world – will drive real, global change within the maritime sector. And help every customer to significantly reduce their emissions and operational costs.

To find out more about this transformative acquisition and how this unique value offering could benefit you, please contact Steve Bee, Group Commercial Director at steve.bee@vpsveritas.com

VPS delivers testing, inspection and advisory solutions that help customers achieve measurable improvements to fuel and oil management, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance. VPS operates a global network of customer service offices supported round-the-clock by technical experts integrated with specialised and whollyowned ISO 17025 accredited fuel and oil testing laboratories strategically located in Rotterdam, Singapore, Houston, Fujairah and Manchester.  

Yxney Maritime is a Norwegian-based business providing data-driven solutions to assist ship owners and energy companies in decarbonising maritime operations to create a sustainable energy future. Maress combines available data from vessels with other relevant data sets to create insight, transparency and network collaboration for ship owners, energy companies and other stakeholders. In 2020 Maress users achieved combined savings in excess of 60,000 tons CO2.