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Enterprise Version 3.0

Today’s global work boat market changes with rapid-fire frequency, especially in the area of regulation. It requires management to respond with critical decisions to keep the organiza- tion competitive, on pace and in compliance. MarineCFO announced its latest product release, Enterprise 3.0. Enhanced features include improvements in inland tow manage- ment and tow diagram synching, addition of multiple billing/invoicing management for different markets, improved management of employee miscellaneous pay, new security man- ager, new integration manager, inte- grated online product help and improvements to the console frame- work to support client customiza- tions.

Another area of focus for

MarineCFO has been cloud comput- ing. MarineCFO Live! offers users the ability to have a robust technology solution that requires only Microsoft

Internet Explorer to operate. There are no internal IT requirements, other than access to the internet.

CEACT’s: Towtracker Web Portal

CEACT Ltd and the German com- pany Herberg Engineering have launched a new web portal (www.towtracker.com). "We see a growing demand on combined shore and ship-based solutions," said Greg

Dunkle, CEO of CEACT Ltd. "More and more boats have an Internet con- nection via satellite or 4G communi- cation now. We make use of this new situation and provide innovative tools to make daily work easier, aboard and ashore."

The new CEACT/Towtracker solu- tion allows the automatic exchange of information from ship to shore. With an Internet connection CEACT is able to report position, speed, course as well as detailed tow information to

Towtracker automatically, even the position of different barges and their dimensions within the tow are trans- mitted.

Via a password-protected portal, all authorized Towtracker users can view information relevant to them by means of a near real-time position display.

The solu- tion includes a schedule manager for calculating routes and schedules on U.S. waterways. Users aboard can calculate routes through the different locks and rivers. With a mouse click, the soft- ware calculates ETAs and ETDs tak- ing into account lock delays and dif- ferent average speeds. www.marinelink.com MN 41

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