Kaleris brings safer, smarter ocean transit solutions in 2025
Table of Contents:
- The New Dry Bulk Operations Environment
- Kaleris Bulk Carrier Package Offerings
- Kaleris Bulk Carrier Package Offerings
- The Benefits and Gains of Kaleris Bulk Carrier Package
- Trim Optimization for Enhanced Efficiency
- Shaping the Future of Bulk Carrier Operations
Bulk carrier operations are a cornerstone of global and regional trade, playing a pivotal role in the transportation of essential cargo such as ores, logs, coal, and steel products. However, the bulk transport industry is no longer just about moving cargo from port to port. It is a complex ecosystem involving a multitude of parties, including ship operators, cargo sellers and buyers, charterers, insurers, and agents. Seamless information exchange among all stakeholders is critical to ensuring smooth and efficient operations.
The industry now faces the challenge of balancing safe loading operations, compliance with ever-stricter emission regulations, and keeping all involved parties informed. As a result, loading operations have evolved beyond a pure safety and compliance focus, offering significant opportunities for business improvement. This includes optimizing cargo planning, loading/discharging processes, and increasing connectivity between all parties involved.
Kaleris Carrier and Vessel Solutions addresses these challenges with its Bulk Carrier Package, designed to streamline bulk carrier operations and bring a new level of efficiency, sustainability, and safety to the industry.
The New Dry Bulk Operations Environment
The bulk carrier industry has seen substantial changes in recent years, necessitating new technologies and practices to manage the growing complexities of operations. Among the most significant advancements is the demand for real-time visibility into both cargo and ship data. In addition, emission compliance has become an increasingly critical issue, with organizations needing to meet stringent fuel and carbon emission regulations such as Fuel EU, EU ETS, and their international counterparts which the IMO implements for global dry bulk trade.
Smart business operations are now essential, including optimized cargo planning and maximization of loading capacity, compliance with the BLU Code, and more efficient loading operations. Furthermore, cybersecurity is a top priority as the industry moves toward digital solutions, with all systems needing to meet the latest International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) UR E27 cybersecurity standards.
Kaleris Bulk Carrier Package Offerings
Kaleris offers a comprehensive suite of tools and solutions to address these evolving challenges. Key features of the Bulk Carrier Package include:
- Loading Computer MACS3: This tool evaluates the stability and strength of the vessel, providing vital calculations to ensure safe loading. It also optimizes trim, heel, and stress levels by adjusting ballast tanks, offering greater operational flexibility.
- Loading Computer Loadman Module: A comprehensive solution for automating cargo distribution and loading/unloading sequences planning in compliance with the BLU Code, optimizing operations and improving overall efficiency.
- Loading Computer Bulklim Module: Bulklim ensures that load limits set by classification societies are not exceeded. The system performs safety checks on maximum load per hold, still water bending moments, and checks for compliance with load limitations outlined in stability booklets.
- Loading Computer Bulkstrength Module: This solution calculates the strength of a vessel according to IACS 17, performing safety checks of the longitudinal strength in flooded conditions, strength limits in damaged holds, and ensuring compliance with IACS UR S17 regulations.
- Loading Computer Steel Coil Module: Designed specifically for the safe and efficient transport of steel coils, this tool ensures the vessel’s stability while loading and unloading coils. It integrates with the steel coil planner, providing clear warnings in case of exceedance of safety limits.
- MACS3 Connected: This tool provides loading computer data in the cloud and mirrors the actual onboard situation onshore, allowing for real-time sharing of cargo data with all relevant business parties. By connecting vessel operations to cloud-based systems, this solution enhances visibility and facilitates collaboration between onboard and onshore teams.
- Bluetracker Sea Cargo Charter: This module in the Fleet Performance solution calculates the total CO2 emissions for each cargo parcel, ensuring that bulk carriers comply with the Sea Cargo Charter framework. Reports are automatically generated, providing valuable insights into fuel consumption and emission levels.
- Cybersecurity Compliance: All systems meet the latest cybersecurity regulations (IACS UR E27) to safeguard vessels from potential cyber threats. This includes ensuring safe interfaces, operating systems, incident recovery strategies, and redundancy protocols.
The Benefits and Gains of Kaleris Bulk Carrier Package
The Bulk Carrier Package provides a multitude of benefits that enhance efficiency, safety, and sustainability across bulk carrier operations:
- Time and Cost Savings: By automating key processes such as cargo distribution, stability checks, and compliance reporting, the Bulk Carrier Package reduces manual effort and the risk of errors, saving time and money while improving operational efficiency.
- Smart Business Operations: The Bulk Carrier Package optimizes cargo planning, loading/unloading sequences, and operational costs. With automated calculations and simulations, operators can maximize cargo capacity and minimize unnecessary ballast water consumption, ensuring greater efficiency.
- Cybersecurity: The package is fully compliant with IACS UR E27 cybersecurity standards, providing peace of mind that vessel operations are secure and protected from cyber threats.
- Real-Time Visibility: The MACS3 Connected solution offers real-time visualization of the actual onboard situation, making it easier for onboard and onshore teams to collaborate efficiently. This data-driven approach improves decision-making and ensures precise actions across multiple stakeholders.
- Emission Compliance: With the Bluetracker module, vessels automatically calculate and report CO2 emissions for each cargo parcel. This helps companies comply with emission regulations while also reducing their environmental impact.
- Compliance with Sea Cargo Charter: The package ensures full compliance with the Sea Cargo Charter framework, automatically calculating CO2 emissions for each cargo parcel and providing detailed reports that can be exported with a single click.
Trim Optimization for Enhanced Efficiency
The TROP Trim Optimization Module, integrated into the MACS3 suite, provides an unprecedented level of accuracy in optimizing a vessel’s trim. Unlike traditional solutions that use theoretical models, TROP calculates the actual optimum achievable trim based on the vessel’s current loading condition. This data is used to suggest necessary ballast water operations, optimizing sailing efficiency and generating reports that detail actions taken and savings achieved.
Shaping the Future of Bulk Carrier Operations
Kaleris Carrier and Vessel Solutions’ Bulk Carrier Package represents the future of bulk carrier operations, integrating cutting-edge technologies that enhance operational efficiency, sustainability, and safety. With real-time visibility, emission compliance, smart business operations, and cybersecurity at its core, this comprehensive suite of solutions enables bulk carriers to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving industry while achieving greater profitability and sustainability.