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Welcome back to the OCEAN OPTIMISED podcast as Kiran Venkatesh kicks off the 2025 series, talking about the importance of timing. cc Peter Schellenberger, Ronald Spithout, Su Yin Anand, Nakul Malhotra, Nigel Cleave, Mark Mol, Punit Oza, FICS, AFNI, LLB, M.Sc. #OceanOptimised #DigitalTransformation #MaritimeInnovation #MaritimeTech

🌟 Happy New Year! 🌟 Here’s to a 2025 filled with innovation, success, and stronger connections across the maritime industry. Let’s make it an extraordinary year together! 🚢✨

🥸 Good news for seafarers – regulators are finally catching up to prioritise welfare, fair pay, and safer working conditions at sea. 💁♀️ Better news for Ship Managers – FrontM is easy to implement, helping you stay ahead of compliance while enhancing crew wellbeing and operational efficiency. The UK government's recent amendments to the Employment Rights Bill introduced a mandatory Seafarers' Charter, enhancing protections for seafarers' welfare and working conditions. https://lnkd.in/gtsRqm5W Key Mandates of the Seafarers' Charter are: 1. Work and Rest Periods: The mandate establishes maximum work periods and minimum rest periods to manage seafarer fatigue. ⚙️ FrontM's Contribution: is our digital tool for ship managers to easily monitor work and rest schedules, ensuring compliance with mandated rest periods and reducing fatigue-related risks. 2. Training Requirements: The mandate reinforces training requirements, including vessel familiarisation, to support safety and skills development. ⚙️ FrontM's Contribution: is our platform for delivering training materials, assessments and certifications, facilitating continuous learning, social networking for knowledge sharing and compliance with training standards. 3. Welfare and Well-being Support: This mandate enhances welfare provisions, including access to support services, to improve seafarers' quality of life. ⚙️ FrontM's Contribution: is to enable easy mobile-app-based, unified access to welfare services, mental health resources, and well-being content, supporting seafarers' overall health and morale. By integrating FrontM's solutions, ship managers can effectively comply with the Seafarers' Charter, ensuring enhanced protection and support for their crew members in 2025

This year has been filled with collaboration, innovation, and growth, and it wouldn’t have been possible without your trust and support of our incredible team, partners, customers and the entire maritime community 🌊 🚢 Together, we’re shaping a more connected, engaged, and empowered maritime working environment. May your holidays be filled with joy, peace, and cherished moments with loved ones. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 🎁

One big change in 2024 in the maritime industry has been the reality of fast Internet at sea. This development is not purely a technological leap but a transformative moment for the way maritime operations and onboard life function. With faster, more reliable connectivity, the age-old communication bottlenecks between ship and shore and even among crew members onboard, can now be addressed like never before. ❓ But here's the pressing question: Should the methods by which Masters and crews communicate also evolve? ✅ Faster Internet is only as impactful as the tools built to leverage it. Traditional channels like email, static reports and fragmented tools are no longer enough. Ship managers need solutions that are dynamic, real-time and unified. That is where FrontM’s CONNECT suite for ship managers steps in: 🕔 Real-Time Collaboration: Masters can communicate with shoreside teams through integrated voice, video and messaging tools, cutting delays and improving decision-making 🤔 Context-Aware Communications: Tailored dashboards for Masters and crew allow for targeted, need-based information flow, avoiding information overload while improving situational awareness ⭐ Enhanced Crew Wellbeing: With CONNECT, crew members gain seamless access to shore stakeholders, welfare services, and virtual social spaces, ensuring their mental and physical health is prioritised 📈 Efficiency Through Integration: The CONNECT suite eliminates the chaos of juggling multiple apps. It provides a single, unified interface for everything from operational updates to crew welfare As fast Internet becomes the norm at sea, it is no longer about "being connected" but it is all about being "better connected". Masters and crew deserve tools that match the pace of innovation like those on the shore and FrontM’s CONNECT suite is designed to do just that. Punit Oza, FICS, AFNI, LLB, M.Sc. puts this simply and clearly, in the latest Ocean Optimised reel #MaritimeInnovation #DigitalTransformation #MaritimeConnectivity #CrewWellbeing #SeafarerWelfare #oceanoptimised

Peter Schellenberger, a veteran in maritime digitalisation, joins the Ocean Optimised podcast series. With a strong vision for the future of Maritime industry, Peter shares his insights on driving impactful change and helping companies think long-term to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving industry. Don’t miss this brief reel and the rest of the series on our channel. Hit follow and share! #MaritimeDigitalisation #OceanOptimisedPodcast 🌊🚢

What makes FrontM's Maritime Superapp so special?🚢   Kiran Venkatesh, CEO, breaks down how it simplifies digitalisation, enhances efficiency and unifies solutions for maritime operators.🌊 #OceanOptimised #MaritimeInnovation #Superapp #Digitalisation #Sustainability #MaritimeTech #ShippingOperations #Efficiency 

Ocean Optimised Guest Kiran Venkatesh introduces FrontM Follow our reels to discover how digitalisation and human capital optimisation can shape the future of maritime operations. #OceanOptimised #MaritimeInnovation #CrewEngagement #Digitalisation #Sustainability

Excited to launch the Ocean Optimised Podcast—a series exploring human capital optimisation and sustainability in maritime operations. Join us as we dive into the future of smarter shipping! #OceanOptimised #MaritimeInnovation #Sustainability #CrewEngagement #Digitalisation #ShippingIndustry