SAFETY4SEA is pleased to announce that ChartCo has received the 2018 SMART4SEA E-Navigation Award at the prestigious 2018 SMART4SEA Awards Ceremony which successfully concluded on January the 30th, the evening ahead of the SMART4SEA Conference, at Yacht Club of Greece in Athens.
ChartCo received the SMART4SEA E-Navigation Award, sponsored by, Palau International Ship Registry for facilitating the transition to digital navigation for commercial shipping by providing a wide range of solutions including ‘PassageManager’ software, MARPOL compliance service ‘EnviroManager’, ‘Regs4ships’ digital solution and the safety & quality management system ‘Docmap’. Other short-listed nominees for this category were: ECDIS Ltd, Marine Traffic, PortCDM, TRANSAS
Presenting the award Mr. Antonis Souras, Registration Department, Palau International Ship Registry said: “ The maritime industry knows that smart ships and smart technology is the way forward and yet there seems to be reluctance on the part of some owners to fully embrace the technology. ”
Accepting the award on behalf of Chart Co, Howard Stevens, Chief Commercial Officer, stated: “Digital navigation is at the core of the ChartCo business, but we are also now looking at a much wider compliance perspective. Navigation, safety management, the ‘rightly’ increasing need to be environmentally aware and the need to make integrated decision grade information available to mariners, both on the vessel and shore side, in as simple and efficient a manner as possible, is driving our future.”
ChartCo is a distributor of navigational data, nautical charts, marine technical publications and digital products. Innovative solutions combined with global locations mean that ChartCo can provide a market leading solution to the most demanding of fleets. The company has been serving the shipping industry for many years and played a key role in many of the innovations that have assisted ships’ captains to navigate safely over the past two centuries.Innovation in navigation, regulation, safety and environmental compliance is what defines ChartCo, which is committed to delivering solutions which stand up to the demands of an industry that is constantly changing.
ChartCo attracted the most votes by the end of the voting period which held online during a two-month period. SMART4SEA Conference & Awards within the scope of awarding industry’s outstanding practices for Excellence, Innovation and Technology. Other winners of the 2018 SMART4SEA Awards were: Tototheo Maritime for the Connectivity Award, Kongsberg Maritime for the Energy Efficiency Award, Steamship Mutual for the Cyber Security Award, Be Cyber Aware At Sea for the Training Award, Rolls Royce Marine for the Technology Award Giampiero Soncini for the Personality Award and Frank Coles for the Leadership Award.
Find photos from the awards ceremony at Flickr and explore more about the nomination & voting procedure and the winners of 2018 SMART4SEA Awards at awards’ dedicated webpage at https://www.safety4sea.com/2018-smart4sea-awards/
