Hello and welcome to all to NAVTOR´s webinar number 12. And I say it's nice to see so many customers from around the world joining us today. And to introduce myself, my name is Rune Martinsen and I am the global sales director in NAVTOR and I will be hosting this webinar. We will also be joined by Todd Allen, our manager, and on the ground in the US. But before we go any further, we have a message from Børge Hetland, our Chief Commercial Officer. So over to you Børge. Thank you, Rune, and hello everyone. My name is Børge Hetland. And I would also like to say welcome to this webinar, which is number 12. It has been a long time since we had the last one, I think it was back in November. So it's most for sure about time. I know a lot have happened since November. We have introduced a lot of new functionalities and products and services, and we have also started to visit customers again. We have also passed 8000 vessels and still growing. I would also like to say thank you to all of those who visited our booth it Posidonia in the beginning of June and this was a first travel for me in many, many years. And so it was great to come back and see you face to face. And there was also some of you who actually came by just to say thank you for for the guidance, products and services we make and that we make life easier for you. And this is, of course, what we like to here, and this is what it's all about, you know, is to simplify complexity and make life easier for you and make your, let's say, daily life and more efficient. This is also what you're going to introduce today and more features with the Port database and AMVER and also other things. And I hope that you agree that this will also contribute and simplify things even further. So I hope you agree with that. And again, nice to see you and enjoy the rest of the webinar. Thank you. Thank you, Børge. In this webinar, we try to make it a little bit more alive. So if you can participate in the chat, that would be nice. Just say hi who you are and if you also have any questions, we will gather those up to the Q&A session at the end of the webinar. So we are talking about the NavStation today, and you see behind me here we have the whole NAVTOR suite and on the left hand side here we have all the shoreside applications. But today we are focusing on what's on the vessel and especially on the NavStation. And what you see here is the all the different layers you can have on top of the officially ENCs, and that gives you everything at the fingertips. That's the whole idea behind NavStation. So we are talking about today Data layers, AMVER reporting and also Extended port database. Todd will be talking about those three applications but I was just show you quickly about our new collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard and the AMVER. The AMVER is an organization established in 1968. And the whole idea of it is to provide safety for for mariners all over the world. And it's it's a system that that can help to participate in with mariners in distress or ships in distress all over the world. We will also talk about Load Lines and Time Zone Layers. Todd will go deeply into that. And we will also talk about the Extended Port database. This is for you who had a similar application almost earlier, Guide to Port Entry. This is replacing that one now. So the extended port database we just launched out a few weeks back, a couple of weeks, and already a lot of our clients who has transferred to this. So without any further ado Todd, in the U.S., are you ready? -I'm ready, yes. Thank you, Rune. -Over to you. -Yeah, thanks. Thanks, everybody, for joining. Pleasure to have you all here. Virtually so. As Rune mentioned, we have several new features in NavStation 6.1. So what I'm going to do is just basically open it up and give you a brief introduction and how it all works. So let me just go ahead and share my screen and I'm going to open up NavStation. So this probably looks familiar, I hope, to a lot of you this is the NavStation platform with what Rune mentioned is all the different layers of information that are accessible through the program. Today we're going to start out, I'm going to show you first the Port Database and then I'm going to go show our go through the different Data Layers and then finally show how you use AMVER. So to get to the Port Database, you'll see there's a new icon here under the services column. So you just have to press this square that says "Ports" and you're going to open up the Port Database. So we get this Port Database from actually a company called IHS Markit, and they have a dedicated team of professionals that researches all the ports in the world and keeps it updated. And then we in turn update it through NavBox and then display it it NavStation. So this is actually intended to be basically a replacement for "Guide to Port entry" and it has a lot of information. It's geotagged so you can search different ports. You see here on the left, this is a list of all the ports in the world. You can actually filter this as well. So if you only want to see certain types of ports or certain countries, you can filter the information down. You can also create your favorites list. Recently viewed list, and then you'll see here the legend as well that tells you what these symbols represent. The terminals, the berths. And you can see on the screen here that we have all these different blue dots or different ports. So I have a favorite list that I created that has a few ports in it. You can also navigate to a port by going to this top right corner here, this longitude, latitude menu. So if I press on this, you'll see there's a option to type in a port. So if I type in "Seattle", for instance, since that's where I'm at, I can press that and press Okay. And it´ll bring me right to Seattle. So now I'm in Seattle ,and over here on the left you can also navigate this way so I can go and just open up this first window, which will give you the basic information about the port. So the location, the time zone, just some really basic info. But when you want to dove in and get really deep into the full details of the port database, you can either right click here and open it up or you can click right here down on the blue button and it's going to open up the full database of the port information. So it just opens up a new window. And as I said, this is a pretty extensive amount of information you have country information that overview holidays addresses phone numbers that are of importance, even port plans. And it's all broken down into this tree like structure. So I won't open everything. But you can get the idea of what kind of things are available to you. One of the things that's been very popular so far is actually the arrival information section. So that gives you all the pre-arrival information that you would need and also all the links to any kind of documentation that's required when you enter a port. And these links are all hyperlinked, so you can press on them and it brings you right to the PDF of what document you need to have basically. So, so it's incredible convenient way of getting all this information and not having to have a separate platform where you do that. Yes. So that is kind of how the port layers work. You also just one more thing is that on these larger ports in Seattle, I think just has one related port. But if you're in a Singapore, for instance, you'll have a list of all the sub ports and then you can also click on those and go to them directly through this platform as well. So that kind of covers the Port Database. I'm going to go on and move to the next one, which will be the Time Zone overlay. So to get to that, you'll notice there's a button on the bottom right of the screen. It's called "Layers". And when I press that, it allows me to open up different overlays. So I'm going to first show you the Time Zone. So when I press the "Time Zone", it's going to give me a time zone of the location I'm currently at, which is zoomed in on Seattle. But as I pan out, you're going to notice that you start to get all the time zones in the country and then, of course, worldwide. And then if I go back to the Layers section and I just press info the I have another screen that will pop up here and you can actually click anywhere on the chart and you can get the time zone of that zone. So these are geographic and also political and country time zones. So anywhere I click here, you can get the time zone and then you can also do it based on your route. So if I grab one of these here, sorry, slow in there. There it is. Then you'll get a basically overview of all the time zones you would hit the different zones. And when you're going to get to each one from each waypoint just takes a little second before it calculates, there it is. And then also in this info section, you have access to world clocks that are very fully customizable. So if you want to add a few clocks in here, you can see on the right hand side, I have a clock that popped up. I have an analog at the moment, but you can switch this to digital as well. So I could put UTC, I can local, I can even add one that's custom like agent if I want to call it agents for instance, and then I just pick the time zone I want that to be keeping track of and then I can add it. And then of course you can remove any of these as well. And then just a quick real peek at a passage plan. Another I mean, really, one of the biggest benefits of actually this time zone information is that it's automatically giving you the time zone for each waypoint when you create passage plans. So before in NavStation when you're building your Passage Plan, you had to actually change. You'd have to keep track of it yourself. And now the program will do it automatically. So when I'm in a passage plan, you'll notice when I go to the waypoints and I show the schedule as I go through these each waypoint, the time zones will change once I get to a new one. So you see right here under time zone says UTC minus ten. But as I advance it'll start changing soon as I get out of it. There it is. So that's a really nice feature of having your passage plan, have your waypoints updated with their correct time zone. All right. So that covers the time zone portion. And let me just get out of the passage plan for now. I'm going to turn off the time zones and I'm going to go to the next layer we want to show you, which is the Load Lines. So the Load Lines, something that's required for all commercial vessels. And traditionally and actually the same thing goes with the Time Zone. There's been like a paper chart that you'd have on board to keep track of this stuff. These layers and that station actually are move the need for you to have any kind of paper chart and that goes for the time zones and also the load lines. So the Load Lines are basically a color coded scheme. It's showing you the zones, the Load Line zones. And this is based on your vessel particulars that you set up in NavStation. So it's based on the size of the ship. So when you go into the settings and you see your vessel particulars, you'll have a "Load Line length". So when I go back here, you'll see this is all this all adjusts according to what you set. And so you can right click to get more info about this right on the chart. So I just when I did is just right click "Object info" and then down here you'll see "Load Lines". So this is about this particular zone when the summer season is, when the winter season is, the dates it applies. And this is also added to the passage plan automatically. So you'll see in the passage plan it adds the load line information here. So in this particular case, I'm going from tropical to tropical, but you could go from summer to mostly I guess would be tropical this summer or possibly winter. So it's just going to keep track of that and add it depending on which ports are going to and what time of the year and the vessel size. So that is how the passage plan or that's how load lines work. Let's go into the last layer here, which will be "Chart1". So chart one is actually something that's in all ECDISES everywhere, it's required, it's just the portrayal, it's how the symbols are portrayed or in the actual chart itself according to the latest presentation library. So we have several customers that actually have designated NavStation as their emergency tool, like their "Get Me home-system" in case they have complete failure of their ECDIS. But there are several flag states that required basically Chart1 to be any kind of system that you have designated for that. So we've added Chart1 so that our customers can officially use NavStation as an emergency "Take me home". How to get to Chart1 the same way you did with the other layers just through this button here. And then you can get to Chart1 and you can go to and the charts located actually out in Africa and you can see this is very familiar to anyone that's used an ECDIS. So these are all the symbols for the ECDIS. So that's kind of quick, that's pretty easy. That's just that's chart1. That's pretty much it for that. And that covers the layers. And the last thing I wanted to show is actually the AMVER reporting. So as I mentioned, AMVER has been around for many, many, many years. It's a volunteer program started by the Coast Guard to allow commercial vessels to share their position in case of emergencies. So if the Coast Guard or any other coast or any other, not just the US Coast Guard, but any Coast Guard in the world can't get to someone in distress. They can ask a commercial vessel to assist. So it's a really nice program. The only problem with it has been it's very manually intensive in terms of how it's done traditionally. So it's been an email that the First Officer will have to write out, and it takes a while because there's quite a bit of things that you have to put in the email - and then send it out. So we had a basically for one of our captains that's been using NavStation, we had a discussion. He said, you know, everything that's in NavStation for our passage plan, all the information is actually there for the AMVER report. Can`t you guys in NAVTOR make a system where we could do this automatically. And we said, "yeah, we could do that". So we actually spoke with the Coast Guard and collaborated with them and we made it basically integrated into our system. So the way it works is that once you complete a passage plan and it's approved and you activate it, you have the option to send this as an AMVER Report as well. So let's say in this case, I have a passage plan that I just finished and I want to activate it. So I'll go to my "approved passage plans", press "activate", and here you'll have the option of actually selecting AMVER. And you also see you can soon do this for the Chilean Coast Guard and also the Japanese Coast Guard. So when I click this and press activate, it's going to send a report to Amber as well. And I'm going to go actually into we have another path to get to this. It´s actually through the reporting button. So if I go up and you see "Reporting", we'll see the actual passage plan that I just activated. So it sends the active route and it also send a automatic position report as frequent as you'd like. So I have it set for every 12 hours. So this is going to send a position report to the AMVER guys so they know what's going on. If for some reason you change where you're going to go, you can also send a deviation report and automatically get it sent. And then when you arrive at your destination, you deactivate your passage plan and then it sends a "Final Report" to the Coast Guard. So you can kind of see why this is a lot easier compared to what you would have traditionally done. So you would have had to fill out an email with all these different symbols and then send it. Now what NavStation does is just collects all this so you can actually see, you can edit this here, and for instance, if you have a medical doctor on board, you can select that. Or if you just have a nurse, you can do that. So it's collecting all this info and sending it out and just kind of fits into our whole philosophy. Of course, with everything else, trying to make everything as simple as possible on board and automate things that can be automated. So I think that kind of covers all of the layers. I was going to go over, Rune, so we can open it up, I guess. To questions. -Great. Thank you so much, Todd. Yeah, but one thing that you have been involved in utilizing these services on several vessels already. Is there anything in particular you would like to highlight that we need to think about when onboarding with this? Well, I think some of the things that have come up or maybe the Port Database, when you initially get it, it's quite heavy. It's pretty big. I think it's about 120 megabytes. So the first time you get it. So it's good to make sure you either have good Internet at sea or maybe you can do it in port. And then once you get it basically installed, you know, after that it's it's just small updates of course, week to week. Yeah. That's one thing to keep in mind for sure. -And all the updates after the first installment is just, they are pushed from NAVTOR sky, I mean cloud. And it's nothing to have to think about anymore. It's just that first install. -No, that's right. Then a nice thing too is that all these, all these Data Layers in NavStation are part of NavStation and they're free actually. And then they also can replace the need for a lot of paper or at least a few pieces of paper that you want, instead of having to go look at a paper chart for your time zones or your load line. Yeah, you can go right to NavStation and and we're I think what I've heard, I mean I know this is true is that we're planning, this is just the first piece. We got the layers in there are now we're going to try to integrate it even more to make it even more like metadata connected and, you know, automate even more things. So yeah. Thank you, everybody for participating and thank you Todd for being there from Seattle. And up until next time everyone, have a good summer!