BOSS (Blue Water Trade Winds)

BOSS is marine management system that comprehensively covers voyage planning, in-voyage monitoring, fleet status visibility, and reporting. By combining operational data with weather information, it is used as a foundation for organizing day-to-day voyage decisions and management tasks.

This webpage introduces BOSS’s key features, main functions, and examples of utilizing it.

What You Will Learn
on This Webpage

1. Strengths of the tool:
   Designed to balance fuel efficiency and on-time performance at a high level through dynamic speed adjustment and weather analysis.
2. What implementation enables:
   Manages planning, monitoring, and reporting end to end, helping drive improvements across operations.
3. Best fit companies:
   Companies that want to quantify fleet fuel consumption, emissions, and CP compliance and use those figures to inform management decisions.

Key Features of BOSS

Evaluate Voyage Plans
Based on Fuel Efficiency and Arrival Requirements

Using forecast data for weather and ocean currents, it enables comparison and evaluation of route and speed combinations.

It allows users to review plan options that consider not only avoidance of severe weather, but also conditions such as tailwinds and favorable currents, alongside arrival time, safety, and CP requirements. Because different assumptions—such as prioritizing fuel efficiency versus on-time arrival—can be compared on the same screen, it becomes easier for operations management and chartering teams to make decisions based on shared information.

Suitable for Companies
That Want a Structured View
of Fleet-Wide Operations

It is well suited to operations management teams managing large fleets that want to track plan adherence and deviations and organize fleet-wide status within the system. By linking voyage plans with daily report data, it also fits technical and fuel-efficiency teams that want to continuously review fuel costs and emissions.

For reporting and evaluation tasks such as EU-MRV and CII, plans and actual results can also be reviewed together, enabling use not only for numerical reporting but also as inputs for reviewing voyage operations.

Main Functions of BOSS

Voyage Optimization

Source: BOSS Official Website
https://bwesglobal.com/services/boss/management/

MIRROR

Source: BOSS Official Website
https://bwesglobal.com/services/boss/mirror/

Scalability of BOSS

With a Data API and a Two-way API, BOSS enables smooth data integration with external systems. Operational workflows can also be considered in which report data collected via MIRROR is sent directly to core systems such as IMOS.

Regulatory Compliance and Certification
of BOSS

BOSS provides functions that support reviewing emissions and efficiency indicators, including the CII Estimator, which calculates CII.^*1 It also mentions EU MRV Reporting in its service packages^*2, and is positioned as support for reporting tasks such as EU MRV (note that regulatory compliance and verification require a third-party verifier process).

Implementation Costs and Pricing
of BOSS

Official information does not disclose specific pricing. During the evaluation process, fleet size and the required module configuration need to be shared, and a quote requested from the developer.

Examples of Utilizing BOSS

One expected use scenario is when an operations management team finds that noon-report figures vary and explaining the drivers behind worsening fuel efficiency takes time. By using BOSS, verified operational data can be cross-checked against voyage plans, making it easier to organize the gaps between plan and actual results.

As a result, explanations of fuel consumption and CII indicators can be made more easily based on data, and the output can be used as inputs for sharing and considering response actions among stakeholders.

*The above is purely an intended use scenario and does not represent an actual implementation case.

Support and Follow-up
for BOSS

An operations desk provides 24/7/365 support* and responds to inquiries from vessels and operations personnel. When weather conditions change or deviations from the plan occur, the desk can be consulted on appropriate responses based on the situation.

In addition to providing the tool, support is also available to help embed use in day-to-day operations through voyage-plan checks and operational guidance. Details such as support hours and scope need to be confirmed based on contract terms.

Company Overview of Blue Water Trade Winds,
the Provider of BOSS

• Company name:Blue Water Trade Winds (BWES Global)
• Address:4 Siddhartha Enclave, GMS Road, Dehradun, India
• Phone number:+91-9997-777225
• Official website:https://bwesglobal.com/