Danaos Management Newsletter 2012

Danaos Management Consultants S.A.

May 2012 Issue 6

Inside this issue New Products ..............................1 Events & Awards .........................2 Posidonia 2012 ............................3 Collaborative Projects .................3 Users Meeting 2012 ....................3

Danaos leaps ahead

Presence in America ....................4

Danaos, spearheading efficiency in ship management and operations in adverse market conditions, releases a new version of the market-leading “Danaos Enterprise” ERP system to address the new regulations, the requirements in the market and the latest technology advances. It is a Web-based system capitalizing on Cloud technology, incorporating native smartphone and tablet versions.

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Intuitive design to focus management attention on exceptions requiring immediate attention based on risk analysis, clustering alerts based on root-cause analysis and suggesting mitigation actions.

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New user interface to improve usability

Statutory and corporate

rule compliance

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Collaboration with top class shipping

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After the successful completion of the EU-Flagship project, Danaos has launched the rulecompliance mechanism that Incorporates all international and flag state rules together with corporate and safety management rules and best practices in a single database.

Danaos Enterprise notifies your officers well in advance and automates form filing and electronic submission.

stakeholders Danaos has joined forces with major shipping and technology stakeholders to train the users and populate the new “Rule Compliance” engine with all the rules and regulations that are needed for the daily operation of this system.

Danaos mobile on iPad, iPhone & Android A global industry where the users and the managers are always on the road, requires the ultimate mobile applications. Now Info@Gate, and shortly the complete Danaos suite, will be at your fingertips, available on the iPad, iPhone and Android platforms.

Bring your partners into Danaos platform Danaos Web Enterprise, by using web services and accepting any electronic form (Excel, Word, XML, etc) enables shipping companies to import third party forms directly, eliminating transcription.

Tel +30 210 4196600 - contact@danaos.gr - www.danaos.gr

Savings with SeaRoutes optimal routing The SeaRoutes decision support system, by combining accurate vessel added resistance and seakeeping data with best of breed weather forecasts, will navigate any vessel through the oceans optimizing bunker consumption and passage time according to market conditions. It has been integrated with a similar system for low-carbon emissions control.

100+ shipping companies using VMS VMS S.A. provides maritime companies with cost effective IT and Telecommunications services by taking advantage of the recent trends in IT technology that shift from client-installed software applications to a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)/On Demand model. By embracing SaaS, lower total cost of ownership can be achieved, with few, if any, technical resources required to implement and support an efficient implementation.

Participants in eMAR & Mosaic projects Danaos participates in the EU-FP7 eMAR and Mosaic projects. This is an e-Maritime initiative that is aimed at fostering the use of advanced information technologies for working and doing business in the maritime transport sector.

Award-winning Operations Research The Danaos Research Center team has been awarded the 2011 Applied Research Prize in the “Greece Innovates” pan-Hellenic competition for its work on “Emulation in intelligent maritime systems”.

Honored member of the prestigious

Edelman Award Academy

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The Danaos Operations Research team has become an honored member of the prestigious Franz Edelman Award Academy. It is the first Greek company that has reached the finalist stage of this world-wide competition that is the most significant in this field. Our team was awarded a distinction for the toolkit “Operations Research in Ship Management”. ORISMA is a toolkit that combines various methodologies and optimizations systems that are applicable in Crew Management, Cargo Planning, Fleet Utilization Management, Optimal Routing and other related maritime activities. It is tightly integrated with the Danaos Enterprise Information System suite.

Specialized modules for emissions control

& crew resting hours

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Danaos, always developing software to comply with the latest regulations, has recently introduced new modules for CO2 and SOX emissions control and for Crew Rest Hours monitoring.

Many vessels using barcode inventory The crucial task of correctly managing onboard supplies just got easier, faster, and more accurate through the release of Danaos' new barcode application. DANAOS BARCODE is fully synchronised with the DANAOS Supply Module in order to ensure consistency between actual inventories and the information contained in the corporate database.

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Visit Danaos stand 2.205 at Posidonia 2012 Danaos looks forward to navigating you through our state-of-the-art Ship Management Systems.

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consumption and emissions to the environment.

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Intuitive iPad, iPhone and Android solutions for the mobile shipping executive.

Danaos Rule Compliance module aimed at helping your executives and officers to meet statutory and corporate requirements.

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Danaos Web Enterprise Edition.

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Advanced solutions for Ship Energy Efficiency Management Planning and rest hours.

Optimal Routing aimed at improving vessel utilisation and minimising bunker

The most complete range of maritime software covering all the departments of a shipping company, i.e. accounting, supply, technical, operations, chartering, quality, etc.

Danaos extensive range of outsourcing and professional services.

An integrated, unified Communications & Messaging suite that incorporates all smartphones, ie iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile.

We look forward to presenting you the products and services that make Danaos your Allin-one Information Technology Partner.

Danaos is a leader in focused research aiming to achieve long term, fleet-wide efficiency (the ORISMA concept) Collaborative projects Ship Energy Efficiency Management The SEEM collaborative project aims to evaluate the best methodology for achieving optimum efficiency in the compilation of SEEM policy to be adjusted with IMO guidelines and ISO 50001 standard, the development of the proper information system to cover data collection, monitoring and action requirements and the development of the Optimum SEEM Decision Support System based on the calm and rough water characteristics of each vessel.

Superintendents Module The project aims to provide the Superintendent Engineer with a tool to create, follow up, and update the Vessel Inspection Report and Job Order List during scheduled Vessel visits and to retrieve Status and History reporting.

Document Management The project will yield a Document & Task Management system that will enable companies to improve costs, response times, and accuracy, firstly, by centralizing critical business documents and files for sharing, controlled editing, and in-depth searches based on content and metadata and, secondly, streamlining project implementation.

Users Meeting 2012 The biennial Danaos Users Meeting is a regular forum where users meet, exchange ideas, learn about new developments and new products and provide their valuable feedback to the development teams.

Danaos commits to incorporate any user requests (adopted by the majority of attending users) to future releases of the software free of charge.

This year the Users Meeting has been extremely successful. Attendance has been higher by over a third and the quality of the discussions and deliberations was very high.

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Your All-in-One Information Technology partner Danaos is the world leader in maritime software and IT-related services for the global shipping industry. Danaos has a rich 25+ year experience serving over 500 shipping companies globally.

Many major global shipping companies have been Danaos customers for over 10 years.

The Danaos suite includes:

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25+ years of service and experience (est. 1986) 50 highly skilled developers 35 support engineers 500+ customers worldwide (the most in the industry)

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Accounts & Financials, approved according to SOX & Tax authorities requirements Commercial & Vessel Operations Planned Maintenance, Technical and Dry-Docking, approved by Class Crewing, Crew Planning, Master’s General Accounts, and Human Resources Management Supplies (Spares, Stores, Provisions) ISM, Quality, KPIs and Risk Assessment, all in accordance with the TMSA requirements Communications & Messaging, Document & Task management Bunkering & Fuel Management Web-enabled, supporting tablets and smartphones Outsourcing, data-entry services & professional IT Services

All integrated in a unified ENTERPRISE environment that seamlessly links all departments and locations ashore and onboard with third parties (charterers, agents, suppliers, traders, etc.) and with information available on the Internet.

Danaos presence in America Danaos is pleased to announce that it has appointed Trycon Enterprises LLC, based in New Jersey, to represent the Danaos Enterprise suite in North and South America. Danaos and Trycon already participated jointly in the important trade exhibitions SeaTrade Miami and CMA Connecticut.

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