Norse Ship Management achieves error free reporting and 55% improved efficiency with Smart Ship© Hub's automated data validation tool.

Smart Ship© Hub (SSH) is proud to announce its integration with DNV's Veracity platform in a bid to drive innovation and efficiency through digital transformation.

The strategic partnership will ensure seamless data collection, data collation and data quality checks leading to reduced administrative effort and complexity while ensuring compliance on a day-to-day basis.

The new integration has been adopted by Norse Ship Management who has reported error-free reporting and experienced its most streamlined and easy-to-use process to date.

SSH's Vessel Reporting System (VRS) is a robust digital solution to automate the noon reporting process along with vessel data management. The new partnership will see SSH integrate this software with DNV's Veracity platform for a more seamless experience. The VRS can be remotely installed to vessel PCs and comes with choice of multiple templates as specified by classification societies.

With the partnership, Norse Ship Management receives an integrated experience where VRS provides DNV-specific templates and automated connectivity, ensuring seamless data flow from vessel to verifier.

This automated process can save up to 10 months' work carried out by one person, while ensuring instant reporting, compliance and completion of the process. VRS operates on a three-tiered data validation process, with a quality check and collation algorithm enabling significant savings in time and resources to achieve approval.

Joy Basu, CEO of Smart Ship Hub said: "We are proud to be partnering with Veracity by DNV and Norse Ship Management in bringing this advanced technological soltuions to frutition. This partnership streamlines automated services and provides users with an efficient and easy-to-use system, leading to significant cost and time savings. By integrating with DNV's sophisticated platform we are able to utilise data validation at the source, leading error-free reporting,"

Akshay Yadav , Managing Director of Norse Ship Management added: "Smart Ship Hub has made our life simpler and the platform continues to help save resources by automating the workflows and ensuring top in line compliance with least disruption. Our DCS reporting process has never been this easy and streamlined. With multi-level validation, the data flow to DNV's Veracity platform and report generation is now in fast, gets completed with every voyage and ensures error-free submission, saving manhours and optimising our shore resources effectively."

The collaboration between Smart Ship Hub and DNV's Veracity underscores both organisations' commitment to sustainable and efficient maritime operations, simplifying compliance processes, and supporting a higher standard of data integrity within the maritime industry.

Dominic Ng, Veracity Commercial Manager APAC in DNV said: "We are able to demonstrate real added value to our customers through our partnership with Smart Ship Hub. Connecting Veracity with the digital platform from Smart Ship Hub, we make it easy for ship owners and operators to access actionable insights, data driven intelligence and regulatory filing. Data validation at source is the first step that significantly reduces the errors, following advanced checks that are in place which validates the data before verification is performed by DNV and reports can be filed."

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About Smart Ship Hub

Smart Ship Hub (SSH) is a Singapore head quartered maritime digital platform transforming global maritime ecosystem with its comprehensive digital platform aimed at Vessel Owners, Operators, Charterers and Marine Insurers. SSH is one of the very few innovative platforms that offer unified experience for businesses , moving them from multiple disconnected systems and legacy processes to a single enterprise wide platform . High frequency data collection from different parts of the vessel , storage and data quality management of legacy with high frequency data and actionable insights using AI is helping organizations achieve their decarbonization goals, save significant dollars through operational efficiencies and ensure statutory as well as contractual compliances. Integrated & certified with leading classification societies, SSH is now one of the fastest growing digital platforms for the maritime ecosystem.

Veracity by DNV

Veracity is DNV's independent cloud, set out to deliver trust and connectivity to industry digitalization and decarbonization. It brings together key players in the maritime and energy industries, to drive business innovation and digital transformation over a common data truth. On the Veracity Marketplace, users can browse, purchase and access relevant industry data, applications, and digital services. Today, more than 60 000 vessels are easily connected to the platform through the partner program and 300 000 users engage over Veracity, enjoying frictionless connectivity through the exchange of datasets, APIs, applications, and insights. Visit www.veracity.com to discover more.

Smart Ship© Hub Digital Platform

DNV and Smart Ship Hub partnership is of strategic importance as the industry transitions towards sustainability. Smart Ship Hub's " All in One" platform offer unified experience for maritime organizations helping them with digital transformation and transition from multiple disconnected legacy systems to a single enterprise wide digital platform . The VRS tool leverages the flexibility of high frequency data collection from the vessel while enabling standardized noon interface where in crew enters data only once . Inbuilt machine learning layer and AI ensures data quality checks and actionable insights helping organizations achieve their decarbonization goals and bring in cost savings across multiple processes. Smart Ship Hub digital platform is an end to end ecosystem that binds in regulatory compliances, onboard and shore efficiencies , machinery and fuel performance , predictive diagnostics and condition based maintenance in addition to driving safety through digitally monitored best practices.