BonVoyage System (BVS) Workshop

BonVoyage System Workshop

StormGeo’s BonVoyage System (BVS) is one of the most commonly used optimization software in the shipping industry, installed on more than 6 000 vessels worldwide. This workshop will teach BVS users the system’s most advanced features and functions. Focusing on the various route optimization techniques, the methods we follow to calculate the optimum route, and how we can communicate with our office via the platform s-Insight, the attendees will be amazed at how this powerful program can work for them.

What You’ll Learn

• How to set up a new weather data request
• The role of the forecast resolution
• To select or not select all the parameters
• How often you should get the weather updates

Wx Thresholds

• The difference between yellow and red thresholdsThe difference between yellow and red
• thresholds• The importance of specifying the wx thresholds before the optimization process

Step-by-Step Optimization Process

• Adding waypoints between departure and destination
• Avoiding the limitation of the BVS freedom to optimize your route
• BVS optimization methods and their differences
• How to compare two or more alternative routes
• How to transfer your route to ECDIS
• How often the optimization process should be repeated after departure

BVS and s-Insight

• An introduction to the s-Insight platform
• How to send your route to StormGeo, and why this is important for your operations department

s-Planner, the next generation of BVS

Available schedules

We only have room for 10 participants at our physical workshops at the StormGeo office at Kanari 8 & Chatzikiriakou, 185 38, Piraeus, Greece (Map).