A tool to meet the increasing number of regulations, requirements and demand for ship-to-shore reporting

Objective

DNV Navigator’s objective is to provide our users with a product and service that gives the Shipmaster and his deck Officers the right information at the right time with the least amount of effort.

DNV Navigator is well established in the shipping market with more than 85 owners/management companies and 1500 vessels using the system. It is continuously being updated with new contents and functionalities added.

Purpose
The purpose of DNV Navigator is to provide vessels with timely information and forms needed to meet Port State Authorities’ requirements.

Benefits
The result will be that the Shipmaster or the Officer in charge will carry out these tasks in a more timely, correct and effective manner. In other words, a cost-effective tool enhancing safety for crew and ship as well as providing ground for effective operations of the ship in the process of navigating the ship through regulated passages and in and out of ports.

The Nautical Institute has published papers that have pointed out that all the tasks placed on the Shipmasters' shoulders over the last years are too much. The growing mountain of paperwork due to new rules and regulations combined with reduced manning are a growing problem which ultimately may threaten safety at sea. The DNV Navigator is aimed at reducing the burden of paperwork and freeing time for important sea-duty.

Features
Some of the features the Shipmaster achieves by using DNV Navigator are:

• Prepared country and port information

• Pre-designed standard forms

• Checklists per port for arrival and departure procedures and for channels and passages

• Standard IMO, US and specific forms required by the port authorities world-wide

• Periodical information updates

• Weekly updates of Notices to Mariners via email

• Special Security logs and forms as defined by the ISPS Code

• Certificate management function

Add-on modules

• Work & Rest Hours Reporting

• Data sharing – DNV Navigator Fleet

• Occurrence Reporting

• Vessel Forms

• Environmental Reporting - Environmental Performance System (EPS)

• Enhanced passage planning – MDS Voyage Planner from MARIS

• Integration with TrioVing Marine’s Gangway Control

The valuable features in DNV Navigator are:

• Information about rules and regulations as received from international bodies such UKHO publications, Lloyd's Register - Fairplay, IMO as well as national sources.

• The information is systematized in our office by shipmasters.

• For pre defined events, the DNV Navigator produces Port Clearance Documents and messages based on the information that are stored in system.

• For use onboard, it produces, on request, Checklists for critical parts of the voyage. This as an aid to the officer on watch and helping him/her in keeping the right level of awareness to he forthcoming actions.

• The DNV Navigator is delivered on a CD for very easy installation on board the vessel. This installation can be on a stand alone PC or on a server operated in anonboard network.

• Weekly updates, from our editing of Notices to Mariners, via a special file that comes attached to the vessel’s email for easy and cost effective updating of the information contained.

Process
DNV Navigator may cut the manual paperwork with up to 90% in connection with port calls and sailing in regulated waters. The information combined with checklists and links gives the user an optimal and powerful tool. Our services include weekly and automated updates of corrections from Notices to Mariners and other sources. The whole system is upgraded quarterly by CD.

The system generates filled in forms in seconds, it contains more than 900 national and international forms. Company specific forms can be added easily. Through data integration DNV Navigator can share information with other systems both onboard and ashore, e.g. crew systems and ECDIS.

Our experience
DNVNavigator will be able to improve the Shipmaster and deck Officers overall performance in carrying out tasks of entering and leaving ports in a safe and timely manner, and therefore saving valuable time for the vessel, pilots and port authorities. The result of this professionalism will quite often result in a quicker turn-around time in ports resulting in higher productivity for the vessel.