Summary
- Profile Type
- Business Offer
- POD Reference
- BOCY20240321001
- Term of Validity
- 15 April 2024 - 15 April 2025
- Company's Country
- Cyprus
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- The Cypriot company with focus on the Shipping and Maritime industry, transforms the way crew change management is done with an innovative decision-making platform and seafarers mobile applications. Helping companies to make faster, cost effective and ethical decisions on crew change will improve operational efficiency as well as crew welfare.
- Full Description
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The Cypriot company is a software development and process automation company. They are focusing on the Maritime and Shipping industry, as Cyprus is a big hub of Shipping and Ship Management companies, in which they gained expertise in this field.
The offered solution is an innovative and multifaceted crew change optimization solution which includes two main features:
1. Decision making platform. The platform can extract crew information by connecting to clients’ existing operational systems, extracting information such as contract expiration dates, flight information, vessel location, port selection and costs, seafarers’ documentation validity and seafarers’ availability. In addition, the platform will connect with external sources for extracting necessary information such as flight availability and costs, Visa requirements and costs. Then, upon the trigger of a crew member expiring contract, it will generate optimum scenario options for the most efficient crew change driven by ML decision algorithm that will be considering various factors including crew past experience, availability, travel costs, port costs, visa, training, performance review, and identifying any synergies of group changes.
2. Mobile App for Seafarers. The App will allow the seafarers to declare their availability for a next assignment and then validate the crew availability by sending push notifications and requesting confirmation that the person is available on a specific date. The app will also be used for notifying crew of their expiring documentation.
The Cypriot company seeks international Shipping and Ship Management companies for partnership under commercial agreement and licencing of the software solution. The partnership will entail also exchange of know how and incorporating feedback from the potential partner to further enhance the solution to allow better adoption in the international market and to statisfy their specific requirements. - Advantages and Innovations
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Through their experience of working closely with Ship Management companies, they have identified that crew change management requires a new and innovative approach that will allow more efficient crew changes.
The innovation of their solution comes from the Crew Availability App that will enable them to have actual and confirmed available seafarers, which will in turn increase crew engagement, ethical transparency, and retention. As well as the decision support engine based on their ML algorithm that will pull, collate, and visually present crew change scenario proposals with confirmed available seafarers to the crew manager so that he/she can make data driven decisions. In more detail the advantages are:
1. Seafarers mobile app: The application is important as it will allow direct communication with the seafarers who will be able to share their availability, as well as send push notifications informing about planned crew changes for them to confirm their availability for specific dates and inform them of their expiring contracts. This in turn secures:
• The Seafarers welfare is taken into consideration as they make decisions on their rest and family time.
• Compliance, as they will be notified to re-issue important documentation before boarding a vessel.
2. Crew Change decision making platform: This solution integrates with existing crew management software as well as external sources (e.g. for flight information, Visa requirements), and provides the optimum and most efficient crew change recommendation taking into consideration a wide pool of variables and additionally:
• The availability of the best-option seafarers as per their confirmation from the app.
• Selections will be made based on specified variables not taking into consideration gender or other bias.
Overall the solution will drive cost savings by recommending the most efficient crew change (location, personnel, fights, port) as well as taking into consideration the availability of the crew which gives - Stage of Development
- Available for demonstration
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Not relevant
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
- Maritime industry, Ship owners, ship management companies where crew change is required. Partners will allow the company to expand its product line and sales streams through the integration of their products, and partner for research & development providing feedback for further enhancement of the solution.
- Type and Size of Partner
- Big company
- University
- Other
- SME 50 - 249
- R&D Institution
- SME 11-49
- SME <=10
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 01004003 - Applications for Transport and Logistics
- Market keywords
- 02007007 - Applications software
- Sector Groups Involved
- Maritime Industries and Services
- Targeted countries
- All countries