World's largest cruise company sets new
standard for journey and environmental
planning, leveraging automation to streamline passage
planning, support compliance excellence
MIAMI, April 30,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival Corporation &
plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's largest cruise
company, today announced it has completed the fleetwide rollout of
LR OneOcean's EnviroManager+ software – the most comprehensive and
data-rich implementation of the LR OneOcean platform to date –
setting a new standard for maritime journey and environmental
planning. The system will deliver efficiencies in passage planning
and support voyage compliance excellence with all relevant
international, regional, national, and local environmental
regulations.
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."
More information:
https://www.oneocean.com/insights/case-study-carnival-corporation
Notes to editors
About Lloyd's Register
OneOcean
Lloyd's
Register OneOcean is the digital solutions platform providing
actionable intelligence to maritime professionals worldwide.
As an integral part of Lloyd's
Register, we exist to create a seamless connection between each and
every vessel and voyage, stakeholder, and supply chain to truly
unite the digital journey between ship and shore.
Our easy-to-use, secure platform brings market-leading
compliance, management, and performance software together to help
shipowners, operators, charterers, and crew drive stronger growth
and efficiency in a safe, sustainable way.
With years of global maritime expertise, innovation, and
experience across 22,000 vessels, we aim to be the most trusted
digital platform for enhancing people, profits, and the planet.
About Carnival Corporation & plc
Carnival
Corporation & plc is the largest global cruise company, and
among the largest leisure travel companies, with a portfolio of
world-class cruise lines – AIDA Cruises, Carnival Cruise Line,
Costa Cruises, Cunard, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises
(Australia), P&O Cruises (UK),
Princess Cruises, and Seabourn.
Additional information can be found on www.carnivalcorp.com,
www.aida.de, www.carnival.com, www.costacruise.com, www.cunard.com,
www.hollandamerica.com, www.pocruises.com.au, www.pocruises.com,
www.princess.com, and www.seabourn.com.
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