Voyager Planning Station offers new levels of automation and simplicity on the bridge to keep your seafarers happy, save you time and improve vessels safety and compliance.
An integrated port to port function automatically generates a route which can then be refined to meet specific orders and other voyage requirements.
Tailor your view by switching eNavigation layers on or off to refine route decisions. Access ADMIRALTY Information Overlay (AIO), ADP, AENP, Navarea Warnings, MARPOL areas, port data and maritime security from a single screen.
View Voyager’s product recommendations on the map or in a list, add or remove items and order those required to make navigational compliance simpler and easier.
ENC, publication updates and NtMs are automatically downloaded every week to prevent compliance issues, meaning vessels are less likely to get navigation-related observations or be detained.
ENCs, AIO, ENC updates and permits from the back of bridge computer to the ECDIS while, at the same time, helping to protect against the transfer of malware.
Use digital technology to automatically log the ENC cells, ADP, AENP, T&P, NavArea Warnings, UKC calculations and MARPOL information for each waypoint.
Voyager Planning Station works with the world’s leading weather routing software to optimise routes. Choose from our partners DTN, StormGeo or WNI.
Everything in one place means navigators don’t have to keep switching between different Marine Route Planning Software and provides a much simpler and more efficient way of working.
In line with UKHO investment to improve the safety of its products and services, Voyager now provides AVCS updates daily to provide fastest access to the latest ENC information and help keep vessels safer. This service is available to all Voyager Planning Station customers.
We offer a choice of services to help the onboard team manage navigational purchasing and compliance and navigation more efficiently. Explore the possibilities with our Voyager PLANNING STATION packages.
Voyager Planning Station Basic
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Voyager Planning Station Essential
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Voyager Planning Station Professional
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Voyager Planning Station is a software application designed to be used by mariners to simply and support the complex and time-consuming task of managing electronic and paper navigation onboard commercial vessels.
Voyager Planning Station’s Professional package provides product catalogue and ordering, route planning, AVCS updating, ENC viewer, ADP and eNP updating, V-DRIVE, Navarea Warnings, MARPOL management and the ability to view other information overlays like ADMIRALTY Digital Publications. A number of other buying options are also available to meet specific fleet needs.
Voyager compresses update files to minimise data transmission costs. The volume of updates vessels receive can also be controlled by the user in Voyager Planning Station. Using Voyager, vessels have the option to download updates for:
Voyager will continue to deliver updates on this basis until the preferences are changed. We recommend vessels use the Cloud to deliver updates because it simplifies the onboard experience, but you can also get updates via email in small package sizes to fit within specific data volume requirements.
The average weekly download size is between 5 and 8 MB per week.
Voyager Planning Station connects to the Voyager Worldwide servers and downloads updates and other information via a secure connection. The free Voyager Healthcheck application scans the PC to check that virus protection is up to date and the PC is not unnecessarily exposed to security risks. The dedicated V-DRIVE USB is wiped clean every time it is reloaded with updates to remove the risk of malware being transferred to the ECDIS.
With Voyager Planning Station’s Professional and Premium packages, you get a MARPOL management tool that enables the bridge team to display the MARPOL zones over ENCs and also identify where routes intersect the various MARPOL zones to provide a simple and cost-effective way to manage MARPOL regulations. The same information is available to shore based management via our Voyager FLEET INSIGHT service.
V-DRIVE is a secure USB device that provides a very simple way to manage AVCS updates. Navigating officers simply plug the V-DRIVE into a USB port on their Voyager PC to automatically download and transfer all necessary ENCs, updates and permits required to navigate safely and compliantly to the V-DRIVE and then the ECDIS.
Voyager’s GPS OVERLAY feature enables the Voyager PC onboard to be used as an extra back up to ECDIS. It works by connecting to either a wired or wireless AIS Pilot Plug or USB to NMEA device to provide the live vessel GPS position which is then overlaid on the latest ENCs in Voyager’s ENC viewer. This is intended as an addition to the regulatory back up – for use in extreme situations where onboard hardware has failed. It does not meet the requirements for a second ECDIS or paper back up.
No. Voyager PLANNING STATION handles all AVCS updates and New Editions remotely. There is no need for any physical AVCS CDs or DVDs to be sent to the vessel.
More than 1100 companies like yours rely on Voyager every day to help them improve safety and compliance, work more efficiently and drive increasingly valuable operational insights.
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