The bridge files one form
Position, distance, hours, weather, consumption. Filed at noon, link or no link.
At seaProduct
One record. Every document.
Your fleet-wide exceptions in the morning, and one of your vessels in depth for the rest of the day. Both off the same record.
The working day
Filed once at sea. Reported everywhere ashore.
Four things happen from one filing, and a person does the first of them only.
The documents of record follow
The company abstract and the technical report, issued from the same filing.
AshoreAccounts receive the adjustments
A short list of declared differences, each dated and attributed.
Month endThe regulatory figures follow too
CII and AER, MRV and IMO DCS, MARPOL Annex VI, all from the operating record.
AnnualThe morning
What is wrong, addressed to somebody.
Every exception the system raises carries the superintendent in your office answerable for that vessel. A vessel with no superintendent assigned sorts above every vessel that has one.
Alerts that can be discharged.
Each one names the vessel, what happened and when. Acknowledging it clears it, so the count on the rail means something a week later.
- Expired certificates held separately from expiring ones
- A ship that has stopped reporting, distinguished from one we suspended
- A critical spare short with no order behind it
The fleet, on one globe.
Every vessel where she is, what she is carrying, how fast she is making it and when she arrives. Only the ships with something to say are coloured; on most mornings that is six of twenty-two, which is what makes it readable from across an office.
- The voyage ahead, with where she will be in one, three, seven and fourteen days
- Cargo and quantity on the ship, not in a separate system
- A vessel nobody has heard from sorts above a vessel with a known problem
- She gets no ETA and no forecast until she reports — and it says so
A wall of the whole fleet, then a question.
Your jobs outstanding by month, completions by vessel, critical spares, defects and certificates by time remaining. Where a measure has no data behind it, the panel says so.
- Every panel reads from the same record the screens do
- A measure with nothing behind it says so, and says what would fill it
- Anything the wall does not answer can be asked of the record directly
What differs between ships is settings.
Templates, tolerances and what each document counts are carried on your vessel, versioned and attributed. Changing one is a setting you make yourself.
How it behaves
Three commitments the product is built around.
Nothing is refused
A system that refuses the Chief Engineer’s figure at noon is a system he routes around by Friday. Nothing here refuses him. Where a figure is unusual, the range is stated and an explanation is asked for. The figure is accepted either way.
Seats are enforced on the server
Owner, fleet operations, Master, accounts, chartering, crewing. A Master reaches one vessel; a superintendent reaches a fleet. Hiding a screen is layout. Refusing the record is access control.
A balance is derived, never typed
Remaining on board, stock in hand, hours run: each is computed from what was recorded. A correction is recorded as a movement, carrying a reason and the name of whoever made it.
Scope
Stated before you ask.
Three things this product deliberately does not do. You will hear these on the first call.
Accounting
We know what arrived and against which vessel. Your trial balance stays where it is.
Out of scopeConnectivity
We report on each vessel’s link, in detail. We do not sell you the link.
Out of scopeCrewing
Certificates, rest hours and the crew list are held and checked. Placing seafarers is not our business.
Out of scopeTwo vessels, one quarter
See it on your own forms.
One month of one ship’s workbooks is enough to know whether any of this is true for your fleet.