Press Release: EEA Grants fund VesselMan and Ulysses Systems Hellas Collaboration

9/9/2020

Innovation Norway has provided support for Greek company Ulysses Systems Hellas and Norway’s VesselMan to develop an integrated Planned Maintenance System and project management tool for technical projects. This joint project is part of the Greece Business Innovation program.

Greece Business Innovation is a program that was established to support access to finance for Greek companies working on projects with partners from the EEA Donor States (Lichtenstein, Iceland and Norway). Following the financial crisis, access to capital has remained one of the major issues for Greek Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. The Program is co-financed by the EEA Grants, part of the EEA and Norway Grants 2014-2021 funding round, as well as VesselMan and Ulysses Systems Hellas.

Article from The Digital Ship Magazine: Digital planning for dockings and repairs: interview with start-up VesselMan

9/9/2020

Norwegian start-up VesselMan develops apps and software for technical project management. Digital Ship spoke with Glenn Edvardsen, CEO of Vesselman to find out how the start-up is helping to deliver more efficient project management.

VesselMan of Oslo develops digital tools for shipping companies to better plan and budget complex technical projects such as dry-dockings, lay-ups, and scrubber installations. VesselMan helps shipping companies to establish standard processes for managing such projects, a so-called a “Masterplan”. Vesselman carries out hundreds of dockings on its software for clients Höegh LNG, PGS, Intership Navigation, Meratus and others.

VesselMan makes it easy for the superintendent to be successful in every step of the dry-docking project. It claims it is easy-to-implement and cost-efficient option for digitisation of dry-dockings and technical projects. VesselMan introduced the Masterplan concept where it implements the companies’ “way-of-work”.

COVID-19 Beaches Dry-dock Projects

8/25/2020

When COVID-19 hit the shipping industry behind the kneecaps, we needed to react fast. As with many suppliers, a lot of our clients had ongoing projects that needed to be postponed, cancelled, or simply put on hold. Like many of us across the industry, we had to see multiple colleagues and connections get laid-off, and ships were stuck in places where border restrictions had been initiated. For a company that deals with dry-docking, suddenly, these projects were hard to execute.

In this ‘new world’, most yards difficult to enter and quarantine requirements made normal attendance very time-demanding, and as we know - time is money. By April the numbers started to show what was going on in the market. Vessels were being forced into layup, three times as many ships were placed in lay-up and twice as many were recycled compared to before COVID-19.

VESSELMAN APPOINTS TIAGO TÙBAL AS SALES AGENT

8/10/2020

We would like to welcome Tiago Tùbal to the VesselMan team. Tiago will be based in Portugal and brings over 20 years’ experience in the maritime sector, most recently with Survitec Group and Wilhelmsen Ships Services. Tiago has experience and passion for developing and implementing digital solutions, and he knows the industry's operational pain points.

Glenn Edvardson, CEO of Vesselman said “I am pleased to have brought someone of Tiago’s calibre to the team. He has an outgoing character and has a great network across the European maritime industry. His knowledge of the technical aspects of shipping is a great fit with VesselMan.

6 MONTH UPDATE 2020 | NEW CLIENTS, ADDITIONAL FUNDING AND UPCOMING WEBINARS

7/9/2020

2020 has been challenging, but it has also showed that our industry has turned quick and is more forward leaning then we expected.

Summer holidays are fast approaching here in Norway and it is time to take stock of the first half of 2020.

At VesselMan, we started the year with fresh investor money and big plans for expanding our team and adding new modules to our software.Then COVID-19 struck, and optimism was replaced by uncertainty.

We could no longer travel to present our solution to potential customers, companies were reluctant to invest money in new solutions, and our investors were asking us to cut costs to preserve cash.
However, in every crisis there are opportunities. We are proud to say that we have been able turn around quickly and adapt to the new situation.

Customer interaction has been changed to web meetings and webinars, and new customers have been on-boarded with remote training. We have also been able to deliver a new lay-up solution, version 2.0 of our mobile app, and a
new cost benchmark module .

REMOTE AND VIRTUAL WORK ENVIRONMENTS ARE HERE TO STAY

6/9/2020

The shipping industry is going through massive changes and challenges. Covid-19 has impacted the ship owners, where there is a accelerated push to move from manual processes to a digital and remote environment. Travel restrictions, closed ports and lock downs are preventing service personnel, technical support and crew to execute on their work and follow up their responsibilities.

Sam Chamber, which is the editor director of Asia Shipping Media, shared some interesting and insightful perspectives last month (Sam Chamber, 2020). Chamber is criticizing Reuters article (Jonathan Saul, 2020) where they indirectly is saying that remote work and virtual inspections is a waste of time, and will not lead to time savings at all. Sam Chamber add the following statement;

VESSELMAN SIGNED A NEW CLIENT RELATIONSHIP WITH GASLOG

6/9/2020

Entering Greece has been a huge milestone for VesselMan

GasLog Ltd is a leading global provider of LNG shipping services. They deliver natural gas that is helping the world transition to a lower carbon future.

VESSELMAN SIGNS CONTRACT WITH ALTERA INFRASTRUCTURE

3/31/2020

We are excited to announce a new client relationship with Altera.

Altera is a leading offshore services group, primarily focused on the ownership and operation of critical infrastructure assets in offshore oil regions of the North Sea, Brazil and the East Coast of Canada. The company is commitment to be at the forefront of sustainability.

BOURBON ENTER A PILOT WITH VESSELMAN

12/18/2019

VesselMan is excited to announce a new client relationship with Bourbon. BOURBON operates in 47 countries, with a modern and standardised fleet of more than 483 vessels and 31 operating affiliates. The group is a leading service provider in the offshore oil and gas industry. The company headquarter is located in Marseille, France.

“At VesselMan we are very excited to implement our cloud-based solution for Bourbon. We are truly delighted to have been given this opportunity and we are thrilled to work with Bourbon. A milestone for us moving into the offshore market with VesselMan ” CEO Glenn Edvardsen

STOVE SHIPPING ENTERS COLLABORATION WITH VESSELMAN

11/26/2019

VesselMan is proud and excited to announce that Stove Shipping has entered into an agreement to utilize the VesselMan platform for collaboration and management.

“We at Stove Shipping are looking forward to exploring the VesselMan’s functionalities and eager to apply the software to our processes. This way we can achieve lean collaboration across our department and the 3rd party ship management company, at the same time build structured processes when carrying out technical projects. By the use of VesselMan we can reduce the administrative efforts and contribute to having better control of cost, time and transparency when executing dry-docking projects” says Pål Gilde, Technical Fleet Manager, Stove Shipping.