Singapore shelter provider Equatorial Marine Fuel Management Services Pte Ltd (EMF) on Thursday (1 October) formally released an Online Tracking Tool (OTT) for boosting its shelter distributions at Singapore port, found out Manifold Times.

“Our main focus of OTT is to increase transparency towards our clients as well as minimise the time customers spend on getting bunker delivery status updates,” Executive Director Choong Zhen Mao informed the Singapore bunkering magazine.

Image Credits: emf.com.sg

“With this mobile receptive monitoring device we enable our consumers to look at the standing of a shelter the shipment whenever simply by clicking the distinct web link we send out to them.

“OTT is provided free of charge to all clients of Equatorial Marine Fuel Management Services.”

According to Choong, the group containing Tamas Csillag, Wing Puah, Ashish Nair, Deane Looi as well as Helmi Johanes [photo from left to right] were employed as component of a digitalisation campaign to offer EMF IT-based services for enhancing its existing job procedures.

OTT has actually been established by the group to deal with problems on openness to the numerous stakeholders; it is presently running reside in Beta setting.

“OTT offers real time data tracking where the Cargo officer team can directly submit updates to the tracking tool via their mobile phone or laptop while at sea,” Choong described.

“Having a solitary factor information entrance system such as OTT boosts our performance whilst reducing mistakes as well as time we invest in typing in information.

“Additionally, bunkering documents such as the certificate of quality, bunker pre-test, mass flowmeter receipt, and bunker delivery note are shared for viewing after delivery for transparency.”

There are 3 shipment standings in OTT:

Pre- shipment phase– Displays ETA (approximated time of arrival) for vessels as well as assigned shelter barge, existing area as well as anchorage.

Ongoing phase– Displays thorough timing that includes along with timing, pump begin, pump quit, as well as ETC (approximated time of conclusion).

Post- shipment phase– Summary of shipment with real supplied amount along with the connected files for customers’ examination.

“The introduction of MFMs for bunkering at Singapore port has brought the sector into the digital age, and this development has provided the impetus for our project,” wraps up Choong.

“Not in plain sight are also features which include automated sanction checks on receiving ships, and analytical tools that improve barge allocation efficiency.”

“Moving forward, we expect to introduce more modules based on the feedback of stakeholders to upgrade OTT in its entirety to provide even better value for our clients.”

Reference: emf.com.sg