Seven key insights from NAVTOR's latest seminar in Mumbai
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Mumbai is not only a key global hub for maritime, it’s an epicenter of development, knowledge and talent for NAVTOR. Led by Managing Director Amitabh Sankranti, the office serves and supports a growing number of regional industry leaders, helping them navigate change, challenges and opportunities with confidence. Here, the NAVTOR India team shares a number of fascinating insights from their latest customer seminar in Mumbai.
1. Digital Logbooks move towards ‘must have’ status
In a world of increasing regulatory pressure, and ever more stringent inspection demands, the need for robust, traceable and consistent data sources is paramount. Digital Logbooks deliver.
As adoption accelerates, and awareness of the benefits of a digital approach blossoms, industry leaders are increasingly seeing them as a ‘must have’. Digital Logbooks not only address the inefficiency of a manual approach, but also unlock easier audits, simpler PSC inspections, reduce compliance risk, and eradicate the issue of human errors.
Participants at the seminar, presented by Hemant Mehta, Digital Logbooks Operations Director, acknowledged that manual logbooks are becoming ‘a liability’. Digital Logbooks, on the other hand, are the future. The time to embrace them is now.
2. Fleet performance is now measurable, not anecdotal
As part of this session, Amitkumar Rammilan Mishra, Head of Operational Excellence, and Priyamvad Upadhyay, Vessel Performance and Analytics Associate, shared their insights on how the industry is entering a new era of operational intelligence.
Welcome to the age of performance.
Once addressed only retroactively, fleet and vessel performance can now be tracked continuously. This allows operators to compare vessels – in real-time – based on objective data, rather than waiting for reports, or simply making assumptions.
The result is smarter, more timely decision-making, empowering actions that address fuel loss, deviations or any other inefficiencies before they escalate.
Once thought to be solely the domain of larger shipping companies, performance monitoring has been democratised with the latest, easy to use, accessible solutions. A growing number of Indian-managed fleets now use NavFleet, enjoying real-time benefits, particularly for those eager to control costs and align with charter agreements.
3. NavCLAN turns navigation data into management level decisions
NavCLAN is a user-friendly, web-based auditing tool, designed for the seamless replay and analysis of VDR extracts from vessels. Sumeet Kapoor, Head of Navigation Safety/ED, dedicated an entire session to this powerful innovation, highlighting the following key benefits:
NavCLAN allows VDR and voyage data to be used proactively, not only after incidents.
Navigation audits can now be conducted remotely, producing real savings in time, cost and superintendent workload. This also accelerates review cycles and causes reduced disruption to vessel operations.
Management can identify systemic crew or procedural issues across the fleet, not just individual mistakes.
The session reinforced that navigation audits are becoming an increasingly valuable, continuous safety and performance tool, with particular relevance for SIRE 2.0, RightShip, and internal fleet benchmarking.
4. e-Navigation is smarter when it’s integrated
You have to see the big picture to know where you’re going.
NAVTOR is committed to an integrated approach to e-Navigation, uniting workflows, automating tasks and unlocking efficiencies – delivering greater understanding, control and benefits for users worldwide.
A key part of this is passage planning. Instead of treating it as a standalone, timeconsuming task, NavStation brings it into the heart of the workflow. Our session, delivered by Rama Bahl, Product Manager, showed how passage planning seamlessly connects with charts, publications, warnings, updates, environmental data, and more, all working together on a single platform.
This gives navigators everything they need at their fingertips, ensuring plans are safer, faster to produce, fully compliant, and always up to date.
It’s a standardised approach, delivering universal benefits – not just for vessels, but entire fleets and shipping companies.
5. NAVTOR’s strength is the platform, not individual products
The integrated approach extends beyond e-Navigation to the entire NAVTOR offering.
We are not selling isolated modules, services or innovations – we deliver an integrated ecosystem.
Managing Director Amitabh Sankranti demonstrated how the value of NAVTOR’s solutions increases exponentially when working together, with e-Navigation, Digital Logbooks, audits, compliance, and performance monitoring connecting to empower a smarter shipping reality.
NAVTOR doesn’t make tools, it creates a strategic platform to help you reach your business and operational goals.
6. Reducing risk, in partnership
In a world that sometimes seems to be spinning out of control, identifying, managing and mitigating risk is one of the key challenges for today’s shipping companies. NAVTOR is on board to help.
Risk was one of the key issues across all the seminar’s sessions, with delegates eager to ensure more compliant, predictable and profitable operations in an ever changing regulatory and business environment.
NAVTOR’s solutions were shown to be key, allowing users to: move from reactive to proactive operations; utilise real-time data instead of relying on postincident explanations; and prepare fleets for stricter inspections and audits.
Owners and managers left with the understanding that NAVTOR is a trusted partner in safety, compliance, and operational control, not just software.
7. NAVTOR is committed to India
Shamanth Denrice Dsouza, Regional Sales Director for the Middle East, highlighted something that was crystal clear to everyone in attendance.
NAVTOR India is a key global hub for our business. We have a fantastic team in-situ in Mumbai to serve our industry, with expert product managers, operational leaders, and sales and support staff on hand for all your smart shipping needs.
We combine local knowledge with world class innovations, addressing India-specific issues with the very latest ‘big picture’ understanding.
If you’d like to learn more, or attend our next seminar in Mumbai, please get in touch with our Area Sales Manager, Prankit Singh. We’d love to hear from you. Contact us.
