Applied Weather Technology, Inc. ( AWT ), a provider of fleet optimization services and BVS onboard voyage management software, in conjunction with the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office ( UKHO ), a provider of world-leading Admiralty Nautical Products and Services, has announced the capability of interchanging track waypoints between the Admiralty e-Navigator and AWT's Bon Voyage System (BVS).
This new capability is intended to make passage planning much easier. Users can now employ the BVS system to strategically optimize a voyage based on weather constraints to find the most efficient and safe route, then seamlessly display the track in e-Navigator to validate that a vessel has all the required charts and nautical publications on board and up-to-date. Once the track has been processed in e-Navigator, it can be passed to the onboard ECDIS system to confirm that the track is navigationally safe.
Admiralty e-Navigator is a PC application that organizes, updates, and brings together all of the paper and digital information needed to plan safe voyages and simplify essential tasks. Whether on the bridge or in the office, e-Navigator will not only give access to a wealth of information, it will organize, maintain, and display all of that data, so bridge and office-based teams have instant access to all the navigational information they need, whenever they need it and wherever they are in the world.
AWT's Bon Voyage System (BVS) is an icon-driven graphical marine voyage optimization system that provides onboard and around-the-clock weather-routing information. This sophisticated yet user-friendly system is both comprehensive and cost effective, making it an indispensable operational tool.