Sea IT Secures ICT Contract with Maersk Tankers
Sea IT informs it has signed a long term strategic ICT contract with Maersk Tankers covering all vessels operated within its fleet. The four-year-long ICT contract includes a unique modification of BlueCORE which has been customized to fit Maersk Tankers' global business operations and security standards.
Under the contract, Sea IT will install a customized solution of its flagship product BlueCORE, a complete IT system including Wi-Fi, on the Maersk Tankers fleet, which includes approximately 100 vessels around the globe. With the solution onboard, Maersk Tankers will be able to regard its fleet as a remote office location.
The customized solution is built to optimize business processes, reduce operational costs and to ensure maximum efficiency by utilizing all available IT resources onboard. It enables a seamless integration between the crew onboard and the office.
“With our version of BlueCORE onboard, we can regard our fleet as remote office locations with real-time, online access to our internal applications. It is a cost efficient, modular platform which supports Maersk Tankers business objectives,” said Thomas Landwehr, IT Governance and Project Portfolio Manager at Maersk Tankers. “Now Maersk Tankers can integrate and structure all programs from various departments – from Technical and Operations; Chartering; Health Safety Environment & Quality to Human Resources and 3rd parties for fuel consumption, sea chart updates and more.”
The installations will begin in 2016 and are expected to be finalized in the beginning of 2017. Besides the installations, Sea IT will serve as a second line support in close collaboration with the Maersk Tankers own support team in Manila. Sea IT carries key components for hardware and software and provides emergency support 24/7/365 to Maersk Tankers around the globe.
