CREATING A COMMON VESSEL INFRASTRUCTURE The BW Maritime Experience

10 Oct 2012

O V E R V I E W

1. Introduction to Dualog and BW Maritime

2. Current Status Onboard BW Maritime vessels

3. Developing a CVI What is it? What are the benefits?

4. Key goals for BW Maritime CVI

5. Dualog’s Contribution

6. Overall CVI Solution

D U A L O G

Dualog - Maritime Communications Experts

Established since 1994 with presence in Oslo, Liverpool, Dubai and Singapore with head office in Tromso, Norway

Dualog - Maritime Communications Experts

Experienced management

team

Presence at key shipping hubs

In-house R&D

Highly Skilled Technical

Team

MIDDLE EAST

Dualog - Maritime Communications Experts

Delivers Dualog Connection Suite – a complete maritime ship-shore data communications software and service solution

More than 2000 vessels using Dualog Connection Suite onboard today

ASIA

EUROPE

a b o u t B W M A R I T I M E

BW Maritime

Part of the BW Group which is one of the world’s leading maritime groups in the oil tanker, gas and offshore segments.

Currently operates a fleet of 96 owned, part-owned or controlled vessels

Key offices in Oslo and Singapore supported by a global network of representatives and agencies

Believes in being the standard bearer in the industry for the highest quality standards in people and ships

s t a t u s O N B O A R D B W

Vessel-based systems are very different across the fleet

Vessel applications are (fat) client based systems which are difficult to maintain

Vessel infrastructure onboard some

vessels are also old

Differences in vessel-based systems result in complicated back-end systems on shore

Status Onboard

d e v e l o p i n g a C V I

Developing a CVI

What is a CVI? CVI is the Common Vessel Infrastructure that is aimed to

harmonize and standardize on a single platform For Hardware, Software and Business Processes across the

BW Fleet.

IT Hardware

Satcoms Maritime

Applications

Business Processes

Usage Policies

IT Software CVI

Developing a CVI

b e n e f i t s o f C V I

Benefits of a CVI

Management

IT Operations

More optimized and standardized process for reporting and monitoring the whole Fleet

Give better support in a cost efficient way and to operate and maintain a common standardized platform

g o a l s f o r B W M A R I T I M E C V I

Key CVI Goals

Common IT

platform

Common layout

& design specifications

Common IT & communication

policies and procedures

To leverage on economies of

scale of Common

Vessel Systems

Enhanced Fleet

Management processes

Key CVI Goals

D U A L O G ’ S C O N T R I B U T I O N

Dualog’s Contribution

Common browser based IT platform

Common IT & Communications policy

and procedure

Enhanced Fleet Management

processes

Key CVI Goals

Fleet wide management of all Vessel Communications via Dualog Web Portal

Centralised Administration and Overview via Dualog Web Portal

Fully integrated browser-based solution

Dualog’s Contribution

w h a t D U A L O G D E L I V E R E D

What Dualog Delivered

Dualog Connection

Suite

Business Emails

Roaming Crewmail

Software Firewall

Web Optimisation

Automatic Failover

Automatic File Transfer

C V I S O L U T I O N f o r B W M A R I T I M E

Overall CVI Solution