Danaos Management Consultants S.A.

Inside this issue

New Products .............................. 1

Events & Awards ......................... 2

Posidonia 2012 ............................ 3

Collaborative Projects ................. 3

Users Meeting 2012 .................... 3

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

New user interface to improve usability Intuitive design to focus management attention on exceptions requiring immediate

attention based on risk analysis, clustering alerts based on root-cause analysis and sug-

gesting mitigation actions.

Statutory and corporate

rule compliance After the successful completion of the EU-Flagship project, Danaos has launched the rule-

compliance 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.

Collaboration with top class shipping 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 finger-

tips, 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.

May 2012 Issue 6

Danaos leaps aheadDanaos leaps ahead

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NEW

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, incorpo-rating native smartphone and tablet versions.

NEW

Savings with SeaRoutes optimal routing

The SeaRoutes decision support system, by combining accurate vessel added resistance and sea-

keeping 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.

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100+ shipping companies using VMS VMS S.A. provides maritime companies with cost effective IT and Telecom-

munications services by taking advantage of the recent trends in IT tech-

nology that shift from client-installed software applications to a hosted

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)/On Demand model. By embracing SaaS, low-

er 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 busi-

ness 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 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 distinc-

tion for the toolkit “Operations Research in Ship Management”. ORISMA is a toolkit that com-

bines various methodologies and optimizations systems that are applicable in Crew Manage-

ment, Cargo Planning, Fleet Utilization Management, Optimal Routing and other related mari-

time activities. It is tightly integrated with the Danaos Enterprise Information System suite.

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.

Specialized modules for emissions control & crew resting hours Danaos, always developing software to comply with the latest regulations, has recently intro-

duced new modules for CO2 and SOX emissions control and for Crew Rest Hours monitoring.

NEW

NEW

Danaos is a leader in focused research aiming to achieve long term, fleet-wide efficiency (the ORISMA concept)

Danaos looks forward to navigating you

through our state-of-the-art Ship Manage-

ment Systems.

Intuitive iPad, iPhone and Android solu-

tions for the mobile shipping executive.

Danaos Rule Compliance module aimed

at helping your executives and officers

to meet statutory and corporate re-

quirements.

Danaos Web Enterprise Edition.

Advanced solutions for Ship Energy

Efficiency Management Planning and

rest hours.

Optimal Routing aimed at improving

vessel utilisation and minimising bunker

consumption and emissions to the

environment.

The most complete range of maritime

software covering all the departments

of a shipping company, i.e. accounting,

supply, technical, operations, charter-

ing, quality, etc.

Danaos extensive range of outsourcing

and professional services.

An integrated, unified Communications

& Messaging suite that incorporates all

smartphones, ie iPhone, Android, Black-

berry, and Windows Mobile.

We look forward to presenting you the prod-

ucts and services that make Danaos your All-

in-one Information Technology Partner.

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 majori-

ty of attending users) to future releas-

es 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 deliber-

ations was very high.

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Visit Danaos stand 2.205 at Posidonia 2012

Users Meeting 2012

Ship Energy Efficiency Management The SEEM collaborative project aims to evalu-

ate the best methodology for achieving opti-

mum 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 col-

lection, 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 Superinten-

dent 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 Man-

agement system that will enable companies to

improve costs, response times, and accuracy,

firstly, by centralizing critical business docu-

ments and files for sharing, controlled editing,

and in-depth searches based on content and

metadata and, secondly, streamlining project

implementation.

Collaborative projects

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:

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.

Your All-in-One Information Technology partner

Danaos Assets

25+ years of service and

experience (est. 1986)

50 highly skilled developers

35 support engineers

500+ customers worldwide

(the most in the industry)

Danaos Management Consultants S.A.

14 Akti Kondyli

185 45 Piraeus

GREECE

Phone: +30 210 4196600

Fax: +30 210 4112340

contact@danaos.gr

www.danaos.gr

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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.