Wallem introduces TRS

The Norwegian ship management company Wallem has introduced the TransparentSea Reporting Solution (TRS) to manage and archive the condition surveys of the ships they manage and which is now being rolled out for use by third parties. Wallem has been working on this system in one form or another since 1997 and TRS is an application that allows inspectors to compile inspection reports based on annual safety inspections and creates a historical database of the vessel’s condition.

It is in effect a way of holding condition information on ships in such a way that the access is managed by the use of (pki) encryption and the reports are held in a flexible

repository. The application enables any digital media (photographs, videos, etc.) to be overlaid on vessel plans, their location identified by means of “hotspots”. Prior to inspection, the inspectors can download digitized drawings and inspection records of the vessel. The downloaded information will guide the inspector on hotspots and areas of particular interest. The inspector can then enter data directly into the application, including photographs and upload the entire survey record direct into a central repository. Upon completion, the electronic survey report will be checked and reviewed by a client’s staff for further action.

The ease with which a variety of documents can be managed for access across the internet, in a variety of formats is impressive as is the facility in the software to output

documents into Word or Powerpoint formats. In the light of the multiplicity of surveys and inspections endured in shipping these days from Clubs, Classification, Charterers, Flag States and Port State Control to name but a few, a system like this might be the long term answer to holding data sensibly over the career of the ship.