Carnival Corporation Completes Fleetwide Rollout of LR OneOcean Environmental Compliance & Passage Planning Software
Carnival has completed the fleetwide rollout of LR OneOcean's EnviroManager+ software, setting a new standard for maritime journey and environmental planning. The system aims to streamline passage planning and ensure compliance with various environmental regulations worldwide. The collaborative development involved senior maritime officials, shipboard crew members, industry experts, and technology innovators, resulting in an intuitive tool for ship crews to enhance environmental planning and monitoring during voyages. The software visualizes environmentally regulated zones globally, overlays Carnival -specific environmental policies, and provides real-time updates on regulations for efficient voyage planning and environmental operations. The application offers automatic route generation, validation of planned operations, and continuous compliance monitoring throughout each voyage.
The completion of the fleetwide rollout of LR OneOcean's EnviroManager+ software sets a new standard for maritime journey and environmental planning, enhancing efficiency and compliance for Carnival 's fleet of cruise ships.
The collaborative development process involving various experts and stakeholders has resulted in a comprehensive and intuitive tool for ship crews to support passage planning and environmental monitoring, reducing risks and ensuring compliance.
The software's features, such as visualizing environmentally regulated zones worldwide, providing real-time updates on regulations, and offering automatic route generation capabilities, streamline voyage planning and enhance environmental operations for Carnival 's ships.
The complexity and constant evolution of environmental regulations pose a challenge for the cruise industry, requiring ongoing monitoring and implementation of changes to meet compliance standards.
The reliance on automated tools for passage planning and compliance monitoring may introduce risks associated with potential errors in route validation and operational decisions, necessitating thorough training and oversight for shipboard crews.
World's largest cruise company sets new standard for journey and environmental planning, leveraging automation to streamline passage planning, support compliance excellence
The EnviroManager+ system was jointly developed by Carnival Corporation and LR OneOcean during an intensive five-year collaboration involving senior maritime officials, shipboard crew members, company and industry environmental experts, regulatory compliance leaders, and technology innovators. Together the team created the most encompassing, data-intensive adaptation of the LR OneOcean platform to date designed to give shipboard crews improved, automated, and intuitive tools to support passage and environmental planning, as well as enable enhanced environmental requirement monitoring during voyages.
Carnival Corporation's nine world-class cruise lines and 90-plus ships sail all over the world, making more than 22,000 port calls each year to over 800 destinations, each with potentially different environmental regulations governing vessel operations. Rigorous requirements on air emissions, purified water release, and many others, can vary considerably on a day-to-day or even hour-by-hour basis depending on a vessel's location and onboard equipment. As a result, it is important for crews to have ongoing, easy access to detailed information regarding all environmental requirements affecting each specific area traveled along a cruise ship's itinerary.
EnviroManager+ provides this by visualising the precise boundaries of over 500 environmentally regulated zones worldwide via an intuitive, user-friendly interface. This data is overlaid with the many more restrictive, industry and Carnival Corporation-specific environmental policies to represent a complete view of the full scope of all environmental rules and regulations, regardless of governing body or jurisdiction. Updates to all policies and regulations are routinely and automatically shared with the fleet via a shore-to-ship data service within the LR OneOcean digital platform, which also automatically sends approved passage plans ashore for easy access to shoreside personnel.
The application accelerates and simplifies voyage planning by arming ships' officers with easy-to-use digital planning tools, including automatic route generation capabilities, to plan voyages and environmental operations. It also automatically validates the accuracy and permissibility of planned operations and navigational routes, delivering actionable intelligence to assist decision-making, reduce risk, and ensure continuous compliance throughout every voyage. Meanwhile, both shoreside and onboard personnel have access to regulatory information that can be monitored in real-time against each vessel's position, speed, and planned route.
John Haeflinger, Senior VP, Sustainability and Maritime Policy at Carnival Corporation, said: "Complying with environmental regulations is a top priority, and it is a real challenge for the cruise industry, as regulations and requirements constantly evolve and become more complex. As an industry leader proactively engaged in marine stewardship, we need to be confident that our operations meet all environmental requirements, including our own policies, which are often more restrictive. Given our longstanding engagement and collaboration on this project, LR OneOcean EnviroManager+ now gives us that confidence. I am convinced that the LR OneOcean product suite is the most comprehensive and complete maritime environmental regulatory database on the market today that is integrated with an automated passage plan solution for oceangoing vessels. I invite all other oceangoing ship operators committed to environmental compliance to consider giving it a try, because together we can build on the software's capabilities for the greater good."
Martin Penney, CEO, LR OneOcean said: "We are delighted to have partnered with Carnival Corporation in the successful adoption of EnviroManager+ across its fleet and support their journey to efficient environmental compliance management. Navigating the complex, rapidly changing regulatory landscape is a growing challenge in shipping. Operators, like Carnival Corporation, often cruise in areas of ecological significance and know how important staying environmentally compliant is to their guests. We applaud Carnival Corporation's commitment to its ship- and shore-based team members, providing them with software to ensure environmental compliance in their passage planning and execution."
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FAQ
What software has Carnival completed the fleetwide rollout of?
Carnival has completed the fleetwide rollout of LR OneOcean's EnviroManager+ software.
What is the purpose of the EnviroManager+ system?
The EnviroManager+ system aims to streamline passage planning and support compliance with various international, regional, national, and local environmental regulations.
How long did the development of the EnviroManager+ system involve collaboration between Carnival and LR OneOcean?
The development of the EnviroManager+ system involved an intensive five-year collaboration between Carnival and LR OneOcean.
What does the EnviroManager+ software provide shipboard crews with?
The EnviroManager+ software provides shipboard crews with improved, automated, and intuitive tools to support passage and environmental planning, as well as enable enhanced environmental requirement monitoring during voyages.
Who is John Haeflinger and what is his role at Carnival ?
John Haeflinger is the Senior VP of Sustainability and Maritime Policy at Carnival
