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Webinar #16 - NavStation 6.3 - What's new!
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Customer webinar about the latest news in NavStation, version 6.3.
This release features numerous updates and significant improvements, particularly in the Passage Planning Module.
Presenters for the webinar include Timo Essers, our e-Navigation Director; Vladimir Kolyada, Product Manager for NavStation; and our host Richard Northover, Managing Director of NAVTOR UK.
Highlights in NavStation 6.3:
- New Passage Monitoring Dashboard
- e-Publication Reader improvements
- Manoeuvring Assistant update
- Technology improvements
Updates in the Passage Plan Module:
- Passage Plan updated to meet the latest industry compliance standards
- More automation and auto-calculations
- Flexible print options - select pages to print
- Improved Under Keel Clearance and Overhead Clearance calculations.
- Improved document design
- Allowance for revising and updating approved Passage Plan schemes.
- Additional data utilised in the data layers (e.g., Tidal information, Time zones, ENC charts, Load lines, Ports database)
WEBINAR AGENDA
- Introduction by Richard Northover, Managing Director UK
- What's new in NavStation 6.3 by Vladimir Kolyada, NavStation Product Manager
- New Passage Plan Module, by Timo Essers, e-Navigation Director.
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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. Welcome from wherever you join us. Thank you so much for the time you've afforded us today. We really welcome you to this number 16 in our webinar series. And we're here today to talk about the changes and improvements made to NavTracker, sorry, Navstation and also Passage Planning. I'll take you through an agenda. But first I'll introduce myself. I'm Richard Northover, I run the UK, so I'm the Managing Director of NAVTOR UK. Um, just some housekeeping as I take you across to the agenda. The housekeeping is the platform we use here is called 23. For the best performance you should use it in Google Chrome, as was described in the invitation. The aim of these webinars is to spread knowledge and to make sure that everyone's getting the most value out of NAVTOR on their vessels. So today's presentation, as I said, is going to be made about NavStation and version 6.3, which we're very proud to launch, and the new passage planning template, which comes with that, which has got significant changes. Please note in 23 there are sections for chat and there are sections for questions. Please feel free to put questions through. At any point we will have a dedicated question and answer session, which is where we find there is the most value because that's the interaction. That's where we find out the burning questions from the floor. So please feel free to add your questions at any time. We will put those up on the screen and we'll answer those in in a dedicated session at the end. The chat function is great and we please, if you want to put questions in there, that's fine. We won't be able to display those questions, but we'll certainly review those questions and ask them during the presentation. So it really remains for me to welcome you and thank you for the time. NAFTA is all about development. It's all about supporting both the customer and vessels and offices. And it's our pleasure to release this latest version, which has been developed in conjunction with our client base and questioning what people need, but also looking at latest rules and regulations to make sure that our products best fit what is expected in the marketplace. I'm going to move across to a slide which I've used before. And it's I'm not going to apologize for that because it's quite a useful slide. It talks about our ecosystem. So I've talked before that the only piece of hardware NAVTOR puts on a vessel is the NavBox. And the NavBox is there specifically to manage communications from the data cloud, which come out to the vessel onto the NavBox, which are then distributed through the vessel, of course, through to ECDIS, but also to back bridge through our many services on board. So this is NavStation, which we're talking about today, new Nav reporting and also Digital Logbooks. That data is all harvested and brought back into the NavBox, which is again transported back into the NavCloud. From the NavCloud, we can distribute out to our services ashore, which means that everyone is working on the same data in real time, or as close to real time as possible. So now I'd like to introduce two of my colleagues who will take you through today's presentations. So I'm going to introduce Vladimir, who's the product manager of NavStation, and also Timo, who's recently been promoted to E-navigation Director from the product management team. So without further ado, I'd like to say thank you for the time and I'll pass you across, first of all, to Vladimir. Thanks a lot, Richard. I'm going to share my screen now. -The magic words. -Yeah. Now you see it. So welcome everyone. I just want to join these Warm words from Richard. Warm welcome from NAVTOR. Warm welcome from sunny, sunny and snowy Norway. Christmas is just around the corner. So we can with honor call this webinar Christmas webinar actually because we're going to show you something interesting, something very fascinating and something that we have been, you know, developing for the last, uh, for the last few months, I would say I would wanted to say, but NavStation all about what's new in terms of NavStation So we will build up today's webinar. We go through a few slides. Just fasten your seat belt, get ready for something interesting to come. Now any turbulence? Just pleasure flight throughout and after products and especially in our NavStation. Uh, where we go through what we have achieved. So we use few PowerPoint slides, as I said already. And then we will do the live demo. So my Captain Timo will put us through the, the major things that we achieved within the NavStation. So 6.3, that's the that's the internal version name or a number of NavStation. And now let's let's go. So first that we achieved within the product is called Passage Monitoring dashboard. So this is simply a quick snapshot tool that will provide you with everything around current active passage, sensor information, weather graph, wind and waves, warnings and average speed. So simply saying this is a a first step to make some sort of a dashboard inside the NavStation, which will be focused on showing you what is happening right now. If you have any passengers, what is your speed for the last six, 12, 24 hours? If, for example, you're conscious about the the charter party clauses around the speed limits, around the maximum and minimum speed, what is the the weather along the route? And for example, at the middle of that picture, you see some of the graph hatched by red color. We all understand that red color is something suspicious. In this case it is something alarming. And for this particular case, it just displays us that somewhere between seven and and nine of December will most likely be facing very heavy waves. And you see that there is restrictions for this voice, which is five meters. So this is again, this is a dashboard that will provide everything around the passage. But also we will include here the the distances and time of arrival to the environmental layers, the delays in terms of arrival time or if there is any bad weather that is coming along. So this the dashboard is already there, the dashboard can be used and the dashboard is something that of course we will be evolving from version to version version. Next one we implemented is all about E-publications. So Nav Station is also a room for all the electronic publications. And it is not only limited by the Admiralty Electronic Nautical Publications, but also the flag state Approvals, the IMO's, the the codes, the Intertanko Code, the mask, the weather, be even and and all over the other publishers and all over the other publications. So and we got it implemented. We added the ability to filter, to do the filtering with respect to all the books. And currently on this picture you see that I can I can filter it based on the publisher or based on the publication status, like, okay, show me everything that is having the new editions or show me everything that I have archived so I can easily. Archive, those publications that are withdrawn, for instance, or those publications that I don't want to have in my main bookshelf. So this is all added. This is all now available in this NavStation new version. Also, what we added here is the restrictions in terms of print out. So major publishers are now restricting the number of pages that the one can print per day. And it is actually 10% of a book. So simply saying if you have a book of 100 pages, then per day you will be able to print out only ten pages. Simple math, but something. Something to follow and to consider. Next one is maneuvering assistance. So one of the monitoring part of NavStation, the tool called Manoeuvring Assistant. So this is a tool that is designed to be used for precise mooring, precise berthing, precise maneuvering around different areas. For example, in this picture you see how the vessel is maneuvering around the the the oil field. And I have deliberately created the defender lines and I'm just maneuvering across it, and the system shows me the distances on my port side from the bow and from the aft to those lines. But also it shows me the picture on my Boeing on the aft and longitude. Sorry, speed. This is showing me the speed on the bow and on the aft, and the longitudinal speed in a very precise centimeters per second unit. So when my speed is kind of low, when I'm using the thrusters and mooring my bow on or the aft, I want to see what is the speed. And not just the knots, but also in the centimeters per second. Quite a useful thing which got implemented and now available in this tool that is called Maneuvering Assistance. And also consider that this maneuvering system can also be used as the backup of backup. So in case of failure this can be used as the as the plotter tool. Um, and of course, all the technology improvements got implemented in the nav station. Other, you know, using the, the modern 64 bit, for instance, or using the, the modern user interface and so on and so forth. So this is all in line with the with the technology to make sure that the performance is on a, on its best and quality level. Next one is the Passage Plan. And this is what we would like to delve deeper. Because the Passage Plan is, I would say, the core, one of the core of the entire product. And in this one, we we spend quite, quite some time because we're actually looking into the industry, listening to your wishes, your needs, your requirements, and also trying to fulfill the requirements that is coming from those bodies and organizations like OCIMF, Intertanko, and different other guides and requirements. And when it comes to passage plan, it is actually divided into two things. So one thing is the the settings. And you see what we have implemented with respect to the Passage Plan settings. So now the Passage Plan settings is consisting of four tabs. They are shown on top of this picture its default values. Again the table where the one your seafarers will adjust the default values for the passage plan, and inside the default values for the passage plan. Especially for the under keel clearance calculation, we have extended it to meters percentage of static draft, percentage of dynamic draft, and percentage of vessel breadth. So that's again that's according to your procedures, according to your estimates, according to an article publications as well. And a you can select it for every passage leg and they can be different to each other. Next one is the the all about additional information to be used inside the passage plan. And this additional information can be port information. So per port search range is added to like a peak in range, meaning that for the arrival and departure waypoints, the passage plan will be listing all the stuff from the ports, terminals or jetty. And it will not be just limited by names, but also by density and and precise names for the terminals and jetties. And another one is all about overhead clearance calculation and with respect to the tides. So we all know that the base tide stations are having the reference height for the height. But if the reference height which is RH in this picture, if reference height is not available, then the the highest high water can be used instead. So this will be used for for calculation again of the overhead clearance calculation. Next one is the the passage plan settings. And when it comes to the passage plan settings. So we have now divided it into the initial and the clearance calculation especially which pairs formula to use and one of two can be selected here. One is more conservative with the denominator 20, another one less conservative conservative with the denominator 30. These are all the the formulas that are coming from ship stability work from Dr. Barras and and also the catalog so the cuts can be removed right now from the initial calculation. And that's according to the inter tunnel code. That's according to the, to the real practice actually, because there are some ports where CATZOC is simply not available or there are some ports where CATZOC is not needed. Simply saying next one is the is the full UKC calculation when it comes to full calculation. Then there are more than just two squat formulas, and in addition to base one and verse two, there are also equation formulas for confined waters, mainly with appropriate coefficient. For example, if you take a look at the bottom left formula, which is Paris equation medium, and that is included this additional coefficient k, so there is nothing new. This formula was also used in the previous passage plan templates, but it's worth to to consider that it is still. Here. It is still available to to to use and calculate overhead clearance calculation got also extended. So now it can calculate the air draft in particular by two different ways. One is using just the minimum draft or another one is considering the trim. So this is what we didn't have in the past. And this is what you were asking for. And this is what actually the the industry trend and also the limits, the restrictions for, for the bridges and for the cables. By other words, when the calculated the value should be highlighted by red. This is something that you are setting inside the passage plan settings. Again, as we said before, we will show you that live in the products. Next one is the all about this. So. CATZOC is the Category Zone Of Confidence. This is simply the accuracy of the depth or any other objects that we have in the see charts. And there are two things for this. One is to ignore the uncertainty when, for example, your route leg with its corridor is within the boundaries of dredged or maintained depth area, it's obvious that if the channel is dredged, then probably you can ignore the CATZOC consideration for this. But another one and which is important is the definitions of CATZOC marks that are D or U delta or uniform. Because if you if you take a look in the nautical publications, you will see the definitions in terms of percentages to depth plus minus appropriate meters. You will see the recommendations for a1, A2, B and C, but you will most likely not see and not find anything with respect to D and U. And for this we implement the ability to set the D and U restrictions right from the passage plan settings. But of course this this is something that your seafarers should be using when it comes to the SMS and internal shipping company procedures. So this is all about how shipping companies set those D and U's docks for those categories of confidence. And now this is available. So this can be adjusted manually. And then the appropriate catalog values for those Delta and uniform areas will then be reflected in the passage plan. And safety parameters. So there are four major safety parameters that are existing in. For example, exist for for ages, which is safety contour, safety depth, shallow contour and depth deep contour. And usually from year to year, those safety parameters were set manually. But shipping companies, managers, seafarers, everyone who knows things. This they were asking, okay, if I set my draft, can you guys, they were referring to manufacturers, can you guys calculate the safety and safety depths? And finally we can answer yes we can. So right now the safety parameters can either be calculated. And right now you see the formulas. So for example safety control can be calculated considering draft with appropriate corrections and the height of tides. And then the safety depth shallow control and deep control can be calculated more more simpler. And for example deep contour. That's the static draft multiplied by two, as the nautical publication recommends. But of course this can be modified. So now with proud we can say that the safety parameters can now be calculated and it's not needed to to put them manually any longer. But of course the manual setup remains. So any of those parameters can be set up manually like it's shown here. For the safety depth. You see, this is set to the as per default table and inside the default table the seafarers. They will just set those values by themselves manually. Print out. So in the previous versions of NavStation and templates. The passage plan could have consisted of around 100 pages, and you did not have any chances to to reduce it or to select what to print. Now you have all those tools. Now you can easily say that okay, I would like to to to print only part A, which is all about navigational schedule information, and part B which is all about about in that sense. And then you will get instead of, let's say 100 pages, you will get just just 3 or 4 pages maximum. So that's again, that's up to you how many paper you want to save and how many ink you want to consume. Vessel particulars got also extended and it is now divided into two settings. One is simple vessel particulars, which is length and beam from the CP from the reference point, but another one is the vessel dimensions and the vessel dimensions is more complex. But I believe you guys recognize everything and there is nothing extremely new to you when you take a look on those APPS. FPPs or length between perpendiculars or free boat or length defined in the international convention of load lines or distance after midship draft mark or distance from the aft to the highest points of a vessel, and that is shown here on the X, and it is set to 11m in my case, but it can be more if, for example, your vessel was having cranes which are higher than the mast head and I believe you concluded why it is needed, it is needed to be able to to calculate the overhead clearance, considering the draft right at the appropriate point and to the right hand side. We also set up the the draft for different waters for tropical freshwater or just freshwater, for tropical summer, winter and winter North Atlantic. So this can be set right now. And this will then be reflected in the passage planning accordingly. So quick scope with respect to the template. So all we said before was about the settings. Now we are moving into the template itself and the templates, the the latest template which we call tankers V4 It is available only for NavStation 6.3 and it is a brand new template. It is completely different to the all the previous templates that NAVTOR has been developing, and so make it short and sweet. It is consisting of five major things. So it is calculating All the calculation insight is now considering the OKIMF from INTERTANKO recommendations. Safety parameters can now be calculated automatically. What to print selection can now be made. UKC calculation got extended as well as Overhead Clearance calculation also and general optimization for the number of pages. So this is also been done. For instance, in the past we were listing the the charts for every route leg, and from time to time you probably saw the the repetition. So the same charts will list it several times. Now we don't do this, now we just mention the the, the segments, the legs that will be needing this or that, charts or publications. And the last but not least is something that we were facing from time to time in terms of questions and feedback and user needs and even requirements. And this is the passage plan updates. What is this? Let me just give you a few examples. So these are the the few messages that we got from of course we will not disclose from whom, but from the very important customers. And you can read it especially the things marked by yellow additional sheet deviation from passage plan. And this is what was the, let's say, the proposal that we would like to have inside the passage plan additional page, which will just highlight the deviation from the passage plan. So the deviation from the passage point. What is this? By other words, it's for instance, you have planned the route, you have created the passage plan, and you go to the proved and you set the sails so you are at sea. And you've got some plans, some new plans, or you've got some bad weather in front of you, or there is a long queue in the arrival, so determined the terminal will not be ready at your arrival time. So you need to reschedule and it was needed to redo the passage plan from the scratch. Now this can be made just by updating the existing approved passage plan. And here we also have another. Requirements or another feedback. Very straightforward question. If the vessel slows down or there is a delay, then it would obviously be a deviation from the passage plan. Would it be correct to consider that the passage plan should become a live document? And now the answer is yes, and this is what we have. So that's the real picture from from the latest NavStation and the latest template. So the idea is that the approved passage plan can be updated. And then you can move this or that waypoint, amend your schedule or add something new to this. And then when you approve this revision or approve this update, the passage plan will generate the list of changes. And this list of changes will be reflected like this. Like it is shown on this page. So it will be the passage plan revision block. And inside this revision block we will see the date, the time, the affected waypoints, what happened to this waypoint and the reason for the update or for the revision. So this reason is something that your seafarers will be able to set up manually. So they will explain what was the reason of why have I updated my passage? That's it from my end. So that was again just a snapshot of what we have achieved. You see, I spent around 20 minutes just to explain to you what we have been developing for 6 or 7 months. But now I would like to give you a stage to, our captain Timo, who will show us the live products and talk more deeply about the passage plans. So Timo, stage is yours. Thank you. Vladimir. Hi, and nice to see all of you again. Has been quite a while since we had our last webinar. I'm happy to see the engagement of the audience, especially in the chat, trying to answer the questions as far as I can. I think Vladimir will take over from me right now. So while I'm presenting. So thank you, Vladimir, thank you for the introduction. And I think, yeah, already, as Vladimir has shown, we have done really significant changes in the last release of NavStation, and in particular Passage Plan, because it's such an important, feature we have within our software. We have thousands of users on it and the number is growing. And and of course, you know, we always aim to launch new features, new products to the market. But, you know, we definitely do not forget about the existing products which we have and the the existing keep improving them and ensure compliance with, with all these new industry standards and also, you know, create flexibility. So so make it as flexible as possible so you can reflect your ISM and company procedures within the passage plan. Um, right now I intend to take you live to the to the NavStation, the latest build which Vladimir just introduced to you. So that's my that's my goal now to quickly guide you through it. And I hope everybody can see my screen right now. That's okay. So this is the trusted desktop. As you see the dashboard where Vladimir had briefly touched up on. I will not spend too much time on that. I'm working from an office environment. I'm not connected to sensors. I can briefly show you how it looks like on large screen. So this is what we're looking at right now. Although the values are empty. Since I'm not connected to the sensors. You know, in regard to passage planning, where we have done most of the changes in the scope of this release, you know, vessel particulars, we have subdivided it before we had only the vessel particulars. Now we have subdivided it in vessel dimensions and vessel particulars. And here, you see, you can enter all these dimensions and values. Why do we have extended these dimensions? Simple reason to perform more accurate calculations like freshwater allowance like the draft under the mast, for example we have the measurement here we categorize this x. This is basically the distance from the aft perpendicular to the highest object of the vessel. So we can predict the actual aircraft and trim conditions as well. Yeah. Going to passage planning at first sight. It does not look that much changes have been done. But the devil is in the details, as you usually said. You see, we have added percentage of vessels breadth and before this was this setting was universal for all default categories we have now we have split it up. And you have an allowance to set all these criteria for each individual default category. Right. So we also have added since some industry maritime industry branches of the industry require an setting where you can define the engine room status per leg. This has been done. We also have changed here the settings for. So you can have multiple watch levels per individual leg instead of only one. So these are slight improvements which we have done which make a significant difference and improve your experience when it comes to planning the passage data collection. As we have mentioned in our previous release, approximately a year ago, we had the port information as an additional data layer. Of course, we always try to merge and harmonize all our features in NavStation and the port information is plugged in into the passage plan as well. I will later guide you through the passage plan. The use of the Highest High Water in case the reference height value is unavailable is a significant change, which we have implemented to to get a more accurate approach to calculate overhead clearances. Yeah. The initial you can see we have two empirical formulas of the various Barras formula available. We also have the flexibility whether you want to include the initial UKC. If you want to consider the CATZOC in the initial evaluation, yes or no. So this is something we have set here for the underkeel clearance calculation. There is a number. Of equations available for this formula as well. You know, please, you know this. We are aware that the Barras formula is the most used formula in the maritime industry to determine squat. For the simple reason is ease of use, and it's very practical, consuming as little as possible parameters to get a reasonable, accurate squat. So that's why we have had there. We have done as well in the passage plan template. We have really added also an advisory because these equations really they have limitations in their use. We have been we have tried to create kind of transparency, make you aware of these limitations as well. Overhead clearance calculations. You know, not every vessel has very much fluctuating drafts in the forward in the aft. But we can have the minimum draft as we had before, which is rather conservative. Or we can apply a trim correction. And we also have split up the criteria. We have now one criteria for bridges, and we have one criteria for overhead cables just so you can measure your compliance. Yeah. We have an allowance to define Delta and Uniform. If your company does not have an allowance it basically asks you to conduct a risk assessments when D and U, the delta and uniform are identified. If not, you can specify a value here if that's something you apply. So as you see it's all flexible. There's lots of options available here which you can do, but you can define as if you have. We also have an algorithm that ignores the cat socks. When your cross track limits are within the outer boundaries of dredge channel or maintain that area. Yeah. Safety parameters Vladimir touched up on it. We have an optional that you can have it specified per default category in the default values. Or you can have auto calculated as per the MP231. You know that we have auto calculated the draft plus underkeel clearance including underkeel clearance allowance minus the height of tide for example the safety contour safety dept, and of course you can specify here whether you want to have it by multiplied by static draft or dynamic draft. In regard to the deep contours. Yeah. Having all this in place, you know, you basically go passage planning as you have done before. I open a route here, a coastal route whith some shallow waters here. And then if I click on the passage plan for those who are familiar with the previous versions of passage plan, um, you will directly at first sight see some significant differences. Also in the menu here you see that the menu has changed on the left pane. And we also have a dropdown where you can enter for stability parameters. Why have we added those there. There's a number set of calculations in our full sheet which allow you to calculate the freshwater allowance, which of course needs the TPCI the tons-per-centimeter immersion. But we also have the, you know, the dynamic heel which requires the values of the VCP, the meter centric height, and VCG as well. The first page as you see is how to populate the Admiralty type of table. We have added the title graph. You can hover over the title graph to see the exact title height at any specific time. You can even enter this in UTC or LT, and you see that automatically it does the conversion of time zones, the draft, the departure and arrival draft figures. They're entered in the passage plan now. Yeah. Also, if you calculate if you have entered the forward ships and off drafted automatically calculation being drafted, trim the aircraft and the volume of displacement has to be entered and automatically calculates the block coefficient, which again is a more important parameter to determine the effect of squat. Yeah, you see that as some of these port information is automatically populated, it's also automatically synchronizing. So if I now take you to the geometry in the chart and I go to waypoint number one which is all the way up here. It will find and I have to switch on the ports database for easy visualization. You see that? My first waypoint is here. Yeah. And this is the port. This is a terminal. These are terminals. And the small dots, these are kays. Yeah. If I for example change my leg over here. And I go back to my passage plan. You see right now that it is still on the old. On the old, you see the Eemshaven basin. If I now click on this one, it will automatically find the nearest one. So the geometry is synchronizing with the you see it's now the floating jetty. It's a different jetty you know. And it's all automatically synchronizing. You see there's a number of values which are pre-populated. This automatically taken from the port's database. Very comprehensive tool and the appraisal stage of your planning. Definitely. We're looking into it. I will not touch upon the details of that subscription service, but you will have a similar layout of your arrival port page as you see here. Yeah. Also the information relevant for your port. And we also know that for example port communications, they are not the same everywhere. So I mean we have a number of defaults here, but you can basically reselect another one. If other service providers are available then we have the general notes part one. Yeah, you can of course, subdivide your passage plan into berth pilot, pilot to pilot, pilot to bird. For easy categorization, you see the Navtex here, and the covering legs are nicely listed within the passage plan. A new feature as well is that we automatically find radio calling in points within the margins of your XTDs or when crossing a reporting line, and it's automatically populated based on the chart information, we have the opportunity to create action points. Event marks. This is something of course, your ECDIS also has but these you want to also populate in your passage plan. You know this is basically an extension of a waypoint where you can add these action points and specify them. Right. So this is also nicely listed in the passage plan, and we ought to calculate the passage time of any of these action points. You know, and when you're passing this in local time and UTC. Yeah. Then of course there is also room for instructions to the charter party or from the master, some specific instructions. This route has no overhead obstacles. I will soon find one which has to touch up on this one. You see here the overhead clearance criteria. It's nicely listed in the header, but also the tidal picking range of course where we use for to determine the overhead clearance. And the aircraft here which is calculated based on the trim which I have set in my settings. Yeah. Going to part A. You see that we have added information to security level hardening requirements here. We have merged this cell. You can set here whether you set it in the waypoint during waypoint editing, or you basically do it in the passage panel itself, whether you do it here or whether you do it in the passage plan, it really doesn't matter because it synchronizes. Right? So also here, the engine room status. Don't be misled by the engine room status. As we have implemented in our passage plan, there is always room for discussion and there's also room for flexibility. So this is our demonstrator version where we have added all this information. But you see can change here either one. Or you can change the levels we add or remove it based on, you know, whatever is needed. But it's all pre-populated by the values in the default tables where we previous versions, we had a more conservative approach, you know, into determining the initial UGC in the previous versions. The initial you can see was the chart depth minus the vessel static draft. We have gone away. We slightly moved away, migrated from that conservative approach where we now have the identified water depth. Here, as in the chart, this is the shallowest depth within the margins of your XTD. These are the positions of the shallowest position, the shallowest charted depth. This is the passing time of the shallow charted depth, and this is the nearest tidal station and the corresponding tidal height at the passage time of that shallow position. Yeah, based on this planned speed/set speed for that leg. We also calculate the squat based on this formula. Yeah. But then we have the initial UKC. And whether you want to reduce or deduct the CATZOC from the initial UKC evaluation. Yes or no. Then I go back again to the settings, you know, and this was something you could set here. So something to consider that require some time to familiarize with all these new features. But trust me it is very flexible. Yeah. You also we have added is the option to navigate directly to full UKC page when your initial UKC evaluation is negative or not compliant. Yeah. You see that the chart portrayal settings are automatically calculated based on the settings which I have set in the configuration settings. And also for, you know, for the sake of transparency and clarity to the navigator, we have add a note here. So one of the items in these Barras formula is the factor S which is the cross sectional area. And the factor S the cross-sectional area is determined by B which is the fastest with of influence. But then again, you should always perform a full calculation when the channel river fairways width is narrower than the vessel's width of influence, because that can increase the effect of squat, and this is allowed in the full pages. Yeah. So this formula can be used in open and confined water conditions. Whenever you have transit in a channel or whatever, it is recommended to perform a full calculation. Yeah. We also have subdivided the passage plan. We did not previously do that. You can berth to pilot, pilot to pilot and pilot to berth. Yeah. It's easy in a waypoints where you can set your Commencement of sea passage, end of sea passage, and where you can set events related to a voyage where you can set these items. Yeah. The CATZOC evaluation before we only mentioned the CATZOC, whether it was Alpha one, Alpha two, Bravo Charlie or Delta Uniform. Yeah. Right now we also pre calculate the sounding accuracy based on the identified CATZOC value. Right. And then we identify that based on that identified shallows' detpth Yeah. Part C What has been added here, is basically the intervals and the working methods has been merged in one cell. Yeah, the turn radius can be changed within the passage plan. And we also have the rate of turn calculated. And if you see if I change my turn rate it automatically also recalculates my rate of turn. So this is also a nice additional feature, you know, giving you a little bit insights on how much velocity the velocity of your turn will be with a certain course alteration at a certain waypoint. Yeah, like safety parameter CPA, TCPA limits have been entered. And these are also picked from the default category tables. Yeah these can be set. You see also that this flag is set as coastal coastal coastal. Yeah. And the whole route goes on here. My pilot is Fairway Channel. You see that the margins here are different than which I have for coastal. So this is automatically drawn from the table. And of course there always is need to add or implement additional informations here where you can have these settings set. So you can add information to a particular waypoint as you please. Yeah. Charts and publications has been always, you know, a pain point. In the previous versions. We have cleaned it up instead of having duplicated information for every single waypoint. We have now grouped the waypoints, you know, from berth to pilot, pilot to pilot, pilot to berth, and, you know, mapped them based on, you know, whether they consume the same chart or not. You see also the publications used here. They're similar for this selection of lags. Yeah. Also user charts. Always nice to mention if you have user charts and use we have added two sections. For example, if you're using any charts of publications which are unfortunately not currently available in the digital, in the digital format, like security charts or maybe what is it, ocean, ocean passages for a world? Or it may be a weather routing charts or whatever. You can enter these here as well, just to prove that you have taken this in consideration in the planning stage of your of your voyage. Additional notes, as Vladimir has said, additional notes. Page at first sight looks the same, but it also accommodates the log of the. A revisions if you have made any. Additionally, we have voyage squat figures. You can see the increase or draft or the draft, including the increase and with red values. Whether you will be getting into troubles. And it's measuring your min and max speed and also from your beginning from your max static draft, you see. And also here there is clarity on the approach of the squat calculations. All the parameters used to calculate squat are nicely listed here in this sheet, including the values. Yeah. Going back to these full UKC calculations. And I just take it easy because I had an initial UKC where I was not complying, like this one. I basically can click on this page, create a full UKC, and for ease of use, it already uses graphs, which I have. You see the graphs. There is a drawing the depth plus the height of tide. You see, the height of tide here is automatically populated based on the passing tide of the shallow depth identified from the At plugin. There's also here the changes in predicted sea level. The mean sea level pressure is 2013 millibar. So if I, for example 1018, you see that there is a deduction of five centimeters and the height of tide as well. Yeah. Then we have all these referring back to these for stability parameters where we have added I think it's all about automation. And you see that here we have the freshwater allowance which you can set basically here I have now clicked on the freshwater allowance. You see when this voyage is for example a transit in a tidal river or where it's freshwater or it is maybe brackish water, you can even specify density here and it's automatically calculating your sink, which of course there is also room to manually enter any changes. The same would increase due to less if have a one degree list. You see that I have 28cm linkage approximately, but you can also have the dynamic heel which is taken in consideration, the turn angle and the sharpness of the turn as well as you see. Yeah. So including the dynamic heel when the turn radius 0.3 nautical miles and the speed of seven meters, I might be tipping over 1.3m. The same with the effect of squat. And then I touch up again on this fastest weight of influence B, where B is the value within the cross sectional area determination. You see that you can also simulate another speed. The plant lag speed is eight, but for example, if there is a current in my favor or in my disadvantage, I can add that here and you see it automatically updates the squat value based on this. Yeah. Also here, if the measured fit width of the fair. And there's also, if you hover over with the mouse, you see it has some notification here where you have this. So, if I for example am having a transit in a channel which is less than this predefined width of influence, and I add here 180, you see that my squad is increasing significantly. Yeah. Yeah. You also have here the selection of formulas. This of course should be according to your company SMS standard. Whatever is deselected in the settings will not be available in the passage plan either, right? As you see now, it's refreshing. I see that I only have one formula available. Yeah. So this here is how I do also for the clarity CATZOCs automatically. This leg has a CATZOC Bravo. Which is the SOAC version. The sounding accuracy is 1.2m and the position accuracy is 50m approximately. We also have added drawing here and a table for easy referencing for the navigator. Yeah, and then we have the required UKC for coastal, which in my table is 30% of the dynamic draft for coastal transit I have a sufficient UKC, and of course there is also some industries like the tanker industry, which allow the user to, you know, ignore the CATZOC if the available UKC is higher than the CATZOC uncertainty. So you can basically have a yes or no. Yeah. Right now I have ignored it. If I include it, you see that my required minimum UKC is not met and you maybe want to do further analysis of that particular leg. You also see that the tidal window is available here. The tidal window is available at certain times for safe passage. The minimum required total height for safe passage is 2.32m. Yeah. And you see there is also a drawing here showing you and also the time represented in local time and UTC on when that time slot or when that tidal height is available. Yeah, Significant changes. I did not touch up on the Overhead Clearance Calculations yet, which is the last part which I wish to cover during this presentation, let me find a route which has a nice bridge somewhere. This one has several bridges, so we use this one. Especially in the Nord AC canal in Germany. And then I go directly to the passage plan, part B, making sure that I also have draft entered. I have drafts entered. Taking you to part B note my apologies to General notes part two. Yeah, I see slowly it will populate here. This list with identified overhead clearances is calculating the route parameters I see, here it comes. So what we have done, we have differentiated here what the actual cable is. It's a transmission line. This bridge is a fixed bridge. Yeah. So there's like different categories of all of these. The tidal station nearest tidal station identified a C for all the other overhead obstacles. There was no title station in the vicinity really, or at least not in the vicinity of the tidal data picking range, which is ten nautical miles. And my settings the object name. If it has a name in the chart, it will automatically be populated. The vertical object position the object passing time in UTC and local time. The vertical clearance as in the chart. Sometimes in some occasions you might have what is it, a lift bridge or a swing bridge? Whatever, which has a value which you might want to override. So we have a added flexibility here to override this. So then you basically just can override this. There's also room for notes and remarks. As you say. You know my air draft is 39.37m. And that is you know, considering my trim as well. Going to, for example, one of these legs where I have overhead clearance calculation, for example waypoint 43 as shown here, it is still also, you know drawn into the full UKC calculation as well. So over here leg 43 has an overhead obstacle. Yeah. It says Hochbrücke Brnsbttl And you see it automatically appears within a drawing as well. And then the upper section of the Underkeel clearance calculation/ Overhead calculation page is concerning the overhead clearance calculation you see. Yeah. And you also see that now the highest high water is taken in consideration because the reference height of the object is not found. Yeah. But that's a sad thing. If you have deactivated the consideration of highest high water when the reference height is not found, it will, it will ask you to enter the value. So all the new changes of NavStation in a nutshell or Passage Planner in a nutshell, I can also demonstrate a revision before I call it an end of the webinar, going to my list of routes and passage plans you see here. These are approved passage plans, and I have a number of revisions of some of them already. So if I just take this one here and I have already done a revision number three, and I really want to revise this again, it is approved. It is an approved passage plan, but it's not locked for editing. You see, if I, for example, change anything when it comes to the scheduling, I will increase the speed for this set of legs here into 11 knots and, you know, 11 nautical miles. You see it automatically recalculates going to the passage plan and I go to the additional notes page, you see that the previous revisions made are already here. And it asks me also to justify my revision. And then it just will say schedule or whatever. You can add as many or as little information as you want here, really. I simply click on approve again approve the current passage plan. Yeah. And here it is. And then it will appear in my list again as well. Going to my list with revised passage plans. And then going to my list of revised passage plans. This will be in the list right now. So seeing here this is my last revision. Last revision made. Additional notes page. I see that there is a nice log of revisions, and of course the amended changes which you have made, whether that's a speed value, whether that's a course change or whatever, you know, the effect of waypoints is a modification and you hear whether parameter, you can basically add the justifications. Whatever text you have entered here before will remain, and of course will be represented in the passage plan template. Being short on time and I think I'm already over time, I think I have to I have to call it stop. Stop sharing my screen. And well, thank you for your attention. Of course we will answer some more questions in demand and then we'll be happy to touch up on that. If if this new passage plan. If you're thrilled to get hands on experience, if you want to use it, please contact your account manager. If you're not with NAVTOR as per today, just reach out to us, send an email, customer support, whatever and just get it up We're happy to provide you with trials and information and provide you with more information if all these new changes have captured your interest. Richard, back to you. -Thank you very much. -And it's great to see the passion, my colleagues are both quite, quite engaged and love the topics they're saying, which shows in the the length presentation. So we're running to close to an hour now, but we'll try and keep the next section brief. But we know this is where people find interest and the questions are. So I'm just going to briefly recap what we've seen in very brief is for NavStation new Passage Monitoring Dashboard and lots of technology changes through updates to Passage Planning Module, um, updates to the monitoring every everywhere through the system. It's been updated. Passage plan itself has been updated to meet the latest industry compliance standards, with more automation and more auto calculations, which we will touch on, I'm sure, in the Q&A session. But it's been also touched on by my colleagues, both Vladimir and by Timo. So that just leads us to move to the Q&A session....... [END]