Category "Site Updates"

It always has been a wish of our users to monitor vessel traffic on real electronic navigation charts (ENCs). Not an easy thing to do, technically.

But hope is there, the FleetMon team proudly introduces today Inland ENC display inside FleetMon Explorer. Inspect your favorite areas with fresh marine charts and real-time movements from anywhere, and turn your office into a VTS (Vessel Traffic Service)!

Just select Inland ENC as your map in FleetMon Explorer (move mouse to upper right corner) and off you go with a navigators’ feeling. The FleetMon Pro and Unlimited accounts include coverage for European and US rivers.

SMT BONTRUP passing Terneuzen, shown on ENC in FleetMon Explorer

Here are some interesting grounds to start with:

• Rotterdam/Europoort Approach, Oosterschelde
• Vlissingen, Westerschelde
• Mississippi Delta/New Orleans
• Great Lakes
• Rhine and Danube Rivers

IRIS II on Mississippi River near New Orleans on ENC in FleetMon Explorer

Ferry FRIESLAND on its way through the shallow Dutch Wattenzee waters to Terschelling Island

CELINA leaving Europoort Rotterdam

Enjoy the new possibilities and see the marine traffic as you have never seen it before. Our team is looking forward to your feedback and user stories.
For those of you interested in using FleetMon Explorer with full global ENC coverage, just get in touch with our team. The FleetMon Explorer ENC display is based on FleetMon’s own ECDIS map server technology.

Wait no longer – Today there are two more good reasons to get your FleetMon.com account: We introduce new discounted membership offers and enable convenient payment by wire transfer — the good old “Überweisung”, Virement, Transferencia, Overschrijving or Przelew that is ever so popular in Europe and Asia.

Save your access to the superb FleetMon Explorer now for one full year. Upgrade to a Pro or Unlimited membership and save 17% – in other words: pay 10 months, get 12 months! Or choose the one-month or three-months membership for starters.

Time to tell your boss about the new discounted full-year membership!? The accounting dept. will be happy, too: It goes without saying that you will receive a proper receipt and invoice right during payment.

Oh, and our US customers may choose money order, too.

The Vessel Datasheet reporting tool got an update today, thanks to your valuable feedback. Putting down relevant vessel data for later reference and sharing your knowledge about ships has never been easier than now, and we fixed some bugs with the Wiki field, so it is now possible again to write freetext information on important facts, incidents or history of the ship.

In the very last days of 2011 we launched our new virtual home. It took us a quantum leap forward.
What looks at first glance like a new site, is so much more since we simply changed everything.
From the cellar to the rooftop.

Read more…

We have just finished the new pages for displaying your AIS Antenna reception statistics via your User profil.
So please all you beloved sharers take a look at your graphical representation and feel free to comment on functionality and design.

the new site is online, the team did a fast and clean job, but we are tired.
It is 02:00 o clock in the morning. We will add more functionality over the next days.

You are welcome to comment in our forum. Have fun with the new Site !

Here is an image from our planning session this night, right befire we start the works to switch over the Fleetmon service to a new environment. The team is “still” optimistic, we do have 2 degrees with lots of rain here in Rostock. Best circumstances to start a night shift. Fridge is filled, plans are made…. lets go.

Dear friends of Digital Seas, on Wednsday night we will take care for our databases and switch to new cloud based services. This will bring a downtime for our main site, which we estimate with around two hours until midnight.
For about this time , access to FleetMon Explorer and the website as well as photo uploads will not be possible.

Thanks for your patience, stay tuned and be surprised with the results!

It’s simply fantastic to see the great pictures added on Fleetmon.com every day, shared by people with the same passion on ships and photography (A huge “thumbs up” to all of you!), and just about every day there’s a real pearl among the new uploads.

Now, we felt we must give this fantastic photo stuff the attention that it deserves, because even the most fascinating photos sometimes just remain hidden somewhere in the huge Fleetmon database.
That’s why we make a fresh start and now have the pleasure to announce something completely new: The Digital Seas Photobox! It’s a mobile phone “App” for iPhones and Android phones, presenting the newest and the best images on Digital Seas, galleries of cruise ships, night shots, majestic tall ships, impressive offshore vessels, powerful tugs in action, highest rated pictures…

Photobox on the iPhone

See what it looks like on the new Photobox page, download from Android Market and AppStore and give it a try. The Photobox has new stuff for you every day!

We hope you like the new Photobox App and are looking forward to your comments and ideas! Enjoy!

New version is available from today on!
Checkout the new List and Port section. We’ve put a lot of work into even better performance and usability. Multitasking is now supported and all settings are right there, when you restart the app. It should be a pleasure to use it on a regular basis.
FreePromoCodes will be posted on Wed, 2011-01-05 11:00 UTC via twitter: http://twitter.com/fleetmonmobile

We want to deliver the best Vessel tracking app on the market. One app for all of your devices, no hidden payments, perfect performance, smooth even on older devices, large coverage with almost no delay, optimized for fast daily use, that is Fleetmon :mobile.

mods in v1.4:
✔ new list function, select your viewport first and list only active vessels inside
(berth, port entries, area monitoring), automatically updates of course!
✔ complete support for the iOS 4.2 multitasking options on iPhone und iPad, just continue, where you stopped working the last time

✔ now with manual update button in vessels detail view (keep your loved ship selected)
✔ save current port (Ports) with update option
✔ better usability and performance, also while updating
✔ color corrections for better readability, new artwork :-)
✔ no limits for fast devices, measuring iPad und iPhone (now radius 50sm <= 500 vessels)