Board Layout

The board has two main areas; unallocated voyages on the left and allocated voyages on the right.

Each element in the board represents either a voyage with cargoes, or a vessel open position.

Vessel Open Position Card

We call the yellow card the vessel open position card. It displays the start of the schedule of each ship that is displayed in the board. You can click on the card to open the vessel open position drawer. For any scenario that is not the MASTER, you can edit the port and date of the vessel open position. This changes where your ship starts in the scenario and reschedules the consecutive voyages.

Voyage Card

Header

Port Call Timeline and Cargos

On the left side of the voyage card all the arrival times are listed. The date and time listed for the ballast port is the voyage start date. On the right side of the timeline, the port names are listed, including the ballast port. The total cargo gross weight on board after the port call is listed under the port name.

Number of Displayed Ports

It is possible to change how many ports are listed at a time by using the settings. The minimum amount of ports that can be displayed is 3, the ballast port, the first load port and the last discharge port of a voyage. The number in the blue circle indicates how many ports are hidden.

Actions

In the open positions board you can drag and drop voyages to allocate or unallocate them, move them between vessels and change their order on a vessel.

Click any voyage card to open the voyage drawer and access additional information and actions.

Filtering

You have a large variety of filters available in the board. Filtering for commitments (left-most column) and allocated voyages (rest of the columns) is separate. Filtering is persisted when navigating between the boards as well as when navigating to different menu items.

Settings

Number of Columns

You can select the number of columns to show in the board either by moving the slider or by typing in a number.

Number of Displayed Ports

You can select the number of ports to show in the port call timeline either by moving the slider or by typing in a number. The ballast, first loading and last discharging ports are always visible.

Column Grouping

The column grouping decides which column a card should go into. The default setting is to group by vessel, but you can also select load area or discharge area. The area groupings depends on the selected area report under account preferences.

Row Grouping

The row grouping setting decides how the cards are grouped vertically. By default there is no row grouping. You can also select to group by month or week.

This is a list of all scenarios in the system. The MASTER scenario is marked in capital letters and cannot be edited.

Actions

By clicking on a scenario, you open its drawer and can change its name, its vessels and its voyages.

To create a new scenario follow the step-by-step guide: Create Scenario.

The capacity plan gives you a monthly overview if your fleet is over- or underbooked with cargoes. For each months and each trade, we compare the available cargoes to the capacity in your fleet which is serving that trade.

Overview

You can navigate between the current month and future months at the top of the dashboard. You can also filter to restrict the view to a particular set of trades.

The are three summary cards at the top displaying information on all trades selected in the filter:

• Free capacity: Total deadweight - total weight

• Deadweight: Total deadweight of vessels loading in the selected month

• Weight: Total weight of cargoes with laydays commencement in the selected month.

For free capacity and weight, we distinguish between total values and fixed values. The latter takes only cargoes into account which have status "Clean Fix".

Trade panels

An expandable panel is shown for each trade, with totals for that trade. There are two lists inside the panel, one for cargoes by charterer and one for vessels.

Cargoes by charterer

In each trade panel there is a list of total cargo weight and volume grouped by charterer. Only cargoes where laydays commencement lies in the selected month are counted.

All "fixed" charterer cargo totals are listed first, while "not fixed" entries come second and are indicated in grey.

Vessels

In each trade panel there is a list of vessels. For each voyage in the master fleetplan, the vessel that voyage is allocated to is listed if the following two criteria are met:

1. The voyage is marked with this trade or its performance cargo belongs to the trade.

2. The voyage has arrival date in the first load port within the selected month.

In Fleet Allocation and Scheduling (FAS) you can work on voyages in the planning phase and allocate them to vessels. Available voyages and vessels are:

Voyages with status

• Scheduled (Unallocated)

• Scheduled (Allocated)

• Nominated

Furthermore, the voyages need to be on-going or lie in the future.

Vessels with the following properties

• "Schedulable" in the vessel master data

• FleetExitDate empty or in the future

Master and Scenario

The master scenario shows the current plan for the fleet and commitments. It is directly linked to the rest of the VMS.

Other scenarios can be created to help the scheduler evaluate different options when scheduling. These scenarios are independent from other VMS modules.

Under the menu item Scenarios you can find all scenarios, edit them and create new ones.

Fleet Plans

Under the menu item Fleet Plans you can view the schedule for any scenario in three different views: the open positions board, the cargo management board and the scheduler board (gantt view).

The scheduler board gives an overview of the allocation of voyages that need to be scheduled. It shows commitments in the leftmost column and all allocated voyages in the other columns. There are several settings to refine the view located in the top right.

Voyage Card

On the voyage card a lot of information is shown. The lefthand side of the graphic depicts the open position, the end of the previous voyage. The righthand side of the graphic depicts information on the voyage itself.

Additional information on the voyage and its cargos is displayed in the voyage drawer. This can accessed by clicking on the voyage card.

The following actions can be performed with a voyage:

Drag + Drop:

• allocate and unallocate a voyage (not in the schedule view)

In the Voyage Drawer:

• edit voyage reference

• nominate voyage and cancel its nomination (just Master)

• allocate and unallocate voyage (just Master)

• move voyage (just Master)

• view audit log

• access and upload voyage attachments

In the Cargo Drawer of the Performance Cargo:

• Change the (target) lay and can dates for the first load port.

The Fleet Plans module allows you to allocate voyages and cargoes in MASTER and different scenarios without making any changes to your master fleet plan.

Selecting A Scenario

At the top center of the screen, the selected scenario is displayed.

To select a different scenario, click the expand buttonnext to the name to open a list of all scenarios. The MASTER scenario is pinned to the top of the selector for easy accessibility.

To create a new scenario follow the step-by-step guide:

Selecting Your View

Below the scenario selector there are three tabs to access different views of the scenario schedule:

The Cargo Management Board displays all allocated voyages and the cargos allocated to them. It also shows the unallocated cargos in Commitments columns. For details on the vessel open positions, voyage cards and board settings see Open Positions Board.

Board structure‌

The Cargo Management Board displays all cargoes belonging to the selected scenario. In the left-most column, we display the unallocated cargoes, that is all cargoes that have not been allocated to a voyage. The other columns display voyage cards with the cargoes allocated to them.‌

Unallocated Cargoes‌

The most lefthand column, Commitments, contains all the unallocated cargoes. This column displays all cargoes with status Unallocated that belong to the currently selected scenario. Each card contains the following information: Charterer, cargo booking status, trade , first load and last discharge port, as well as the laycan and arrival window dates. The unallocated cargoes can be filtered by charterer, commodity, trade, load area and discharge area (see Filters of Open Position Board for comparison).

Cargoes on the Voyage Card‌

On the right side of a voyage card, the cargo cards allocated to the voyage are showing. Each cargo has the load port, discharge port, charterer, gross weight and status displayed. These cargos can be moved by dragging and dropping between the voyages of the same trade.

With the newest design of the cargoes on the voyage card, you will be able to graphically see at which ports a cargo has its load- and discharge ports. You can easily track all the port call rows of the cargo by looking at the vertical span of the specific cargo card (the blue area). It is also possible to scroll to the right to see all the cargoes allocated on the same port calls.

Laytime and Arrival Window Indicators

The cargo cards also has indication lines to help you interpret the lay days and arrival windows for each cargo graphically.‌

Lay days: indication line at the top of the cargo. Arrival window: indication line at the bottom of the cargo.‌

Color indicator:‌

• if early: blue

• if late: red

• if on time: normal / no colour

Tooltips

By hovering over a cargo card or on a port call row, a tooltip can be viewed. Fields in the tooltip that contain no data are hidden. The following fields are available within the cargo card and port call tooltip:

Actions

In the Cargo Management Board, you can drag and drop cargoes between voyages. When moving a cargo, you can either move it 100% or split it and just move a part of it.

Clicking on a cargo opens the cargo drawer and gives access to additional information and actions.