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WORKBOAT REGULATIONS “Foremost is adoption by the owner of a celebrated histories, known products fer the Towing Safety Management credible, veri? able Safety Management & services, and the commitment to System (Tug & Barge Solutions),

System which is approved by USCG. relationship building and ? nding the the electronic record-keeping piece

Second, monitoring of an operator’s most affordable path.” (MarineCFO) and the certi? cation approved Safety Management System For his part, Vice President & of the Towing Safety Management (SMS) practices by USCG and an ap- Founder of Tug and Barge Solutions, System (RINA Services S.p.A.). The proved USCG Recognized Organiza- Pat Folan, explains the proposed pro- partnership also offers the surveying tion is necessary. Finally, implementa- cess simply, “Our goal is to simplify piece by RINA surveyors.” tion of a recordkeeping system which the process for towing vessel operators Tug & Barge Solutions provides documents the operator’s compliance and our partnership allows us to of- all facets of the Towing Safety Man- with their Safety Management System.”

MarineCFO offers the MarineCFO

Enterprise System in both Premise

Based Solution (PBS) and Software as a Services (SaaS). Uniquely, the

MarineCFO Enterprise System is a business work? ow systemic approach which includes the following features:

Marine Operations (Shipboard Logs,

Position Reports, ECDIS Interface, & Asset Management), HSE (Naviga- tion Assessments, Risk Assessments,

TMSA, SIRE, & Vessel General Per- mit, Fleet Library (tech manuals, safety notices, policies procedures, forms), & Ballast Water Reporting), Planned

Maintenance (Engineers’ Log, Critical

System Assessments, Spares & Inven- tory Control, Run Times), Personnel (MMD, TWIC, Drug Screen, Train- ing & Dispatch), and Accounting (A/P,

A/R, Work Orders, & General Ledger).

The MarineCFO Enterprise sys- tem replicates & synchronizes ship to shore data through a proven transmis- sion application that interfaces with nearly any existing onboard commu- nication array. MarineCFO Enter- prise deploys an onboard Smart Cli- ent application to retain shipboard data for up to three years.

Dean Shoultz sums up the new partnership nicely, saying, “RINA,

TBS, and MarineCFO are sensitive to the economic conditions facing smaller and mid-sized tug companies but we are also cognizant of how trust is built in this industry. What we of- fer to the market are companies with www.marinelink.com MN 85

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