Consilium  and Orange Business Services  are modernizing maritime communications with the launch of a paperless navigation solution that enables shipping companies to move to a fully electronic platform for navigation and communications.

The bundled, flat rate solution named Current At Sea is a modular Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS)  that can include voyage optimization programs, fleet and ship management systems, and real-time monitoring applications. 

Orange is bridging the ship and shore by integrating ECDIS with its fully managed network (both terrestrial and satellite, including Inmarsat FleetBroadband connectivity). Its network ensures accurate, precise data and provides value added enterprise communications such as Business Talk Global, IP Telephony, WAN optimization, M2M and video conferencing to ships at sea.
 
“Current At Sea is a one-stop-shop solution that is not about simply replacing paper nautical charts with digital ones but is about completely rethinking business processes in order to improve safety, efficiency and costs. This bundled, fixed-price offering with Consilium will help shipping companies revolutionize the way their vessels operate and significantly improve the way they do business,” said Nicolas Roy, head of the Network Solutions Business Unit, Orange Business Services.
 
Other benefits of the solution include immediate compliance with regulatory deadlines, operational cost-savings, fuel savings of 4 to 8 percent when voyage optimization programs are integrated into the solution, improved safety at sea and corporate-to-vessel integration.

By accurately pinpointing weather and water currents to determine the most fuel-saving route, for example, hundreds of thousands of dollars can be saved annually per vessel. Additionally, Consilium’s  concept of chart management enables the system to update only the chart parts that are required for the trajectory of the vessel’s planned voyage.