April 2024 Release Notes

4-30-2024

Trading

Previously, emissions invoices without any user modifications would not be saved. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55850

4-30-2024

Invoicing & Payments

When invoice XMLs were imported using autoinv.exe, the payment terms in invoice forms were sometimes not being populated according to paymentTermsCode if Payment Terms description was not specified in the XML. This has been fixed and paymentTermsCode is now used to populate Payment Terms in the invoice form.

Bug EN-55814

4-29-2024

Voyage P&L VIP & IMOS

Previously, when using configuration flag "CFGCalculateWaitingDaysUsingWPortDays", the total waiting days were calculated incorrectly. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55849

4-29-2024

Trading

When multiple Cargoes marked as Part Cargo and using the Benchmark Estimate Exposure Method (with CFGPartCargoFactorOverride not enabled) are scheduled on the same voyage, the Exposure Days calculation could be incorrect. This issue has been resolved.

Bug EN-55494

4-26-2024

Invoicing & Payments

When a TC commission invoice was created through autoinv.exe and <oprBillRef> was specified in the incoming XML to link the commission invoice with the respective TC payment in IMOS, it was possible to create duplicate commission payments through the UI after the import. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-56977

4-25-2024

Operations VIP Only

In Voyage Manager, when back-creating a Voyage Fixture to link to the voyage, fixed an issue in the carbon calculator which could result in the voyage failing to save.

Bug EN-57196

4-25-2024

Operations VIP Only

Fixes Voyage save errors that could occur due to estimated demurrage with the Auto-update from itinerary setting enabled.

Bug EN-57127

4-25-2024

Invoicing & Payments

When CFGActUpdateOpsExchangeRate was enabled, exchange rate changes in the Transaction Data Entry form were not updating the linked Operations Freight invoice when the invoice was saved as a Provisional invoice through the TDE; this has been fixed.

Bug EN-56138

4-25-2024

Voyage P&L IMOS Only

Previously, emissions allowance transfers were incorrectly appearing in Voyage PnL in the Cash In/Out column. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55618

4-25-2024

Trading

Previously, when the Trading Profile Flag, "Keep fixed contracts in Exposure“, was enabled, not all Fixed VC In contracts were included in the Trading Reports. This issue has been resolved.

Bug EN-55568

4-25-2024

Invoicing & Payments

Some user-visible messages, errors and warnings in the Transaction Data Entry form and Financials reports have been modified to be more uniform and informative.

Story EN-51330

4-24-2024

Chartering VIP Only

When using the "Add Cargo To New Estimate From Benchmark" from the Cargo form, fixed an issue where XP Days could be incorrectly set on the L/D lines in the new estimate when CFGIncludeXPDaysOnCargoImport is disabled.

Bug EN-56699

4-24-2024

Trading IMOS Only

Previously, options trades were showing the wrong sign for delta, when displayed in the trade details grid. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55895

4-24-2024

Trading IMOS Only

Previously, TC Exposure was incorrectly accounting for CO2 Exposure in Snapshots for the Trading P&L Summary report. This issue has been fixed.

Bug EN-55592

4-23-2024

EU ETS IMOS Only

Previously, a Time Charter In Allowance Invoice linked to a Carbon Allowance Trade at the time the invoice was created, would have the Company of the Carbon Allowance Trade. This has been changed so that the Allowance Invoice will show the Company of the TCI contract.

Bug EN-56825

4-23-2024

Journals

Previously, Carbon Price Difference adjustments were showing for amounts in base currency, but not for invoice currency. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-56800

4-23-2024

Operations VIP & IMOS

All Fast and Last Line port activity fuel ROB values are now validated on the Voyage Manager and Port Activity forms. ROB values are considered invalid if they show negative consumption or if some values are populated while others are left missing. Invalid records are highlighted on the ROBs grid within the Port Activity form, and also an error message is shown on the Voyage Manager validation display.

Story EN-55911

4-23-2024

Trading

There was an issue when in some circumstances redelivery TC bunkers would produce incorrect exposure in the month preceding redelivery in the trading P&L summary and trade details list. This issue has been fixed.

Bug EN-55419

4-22-2024

Analytics VIP Only

Fixes a bug that would sometimes result in Report Designer not showing the table selection when building a report.

Bug EN-56858

4-22-2024

Chartering VIP Only

Fixed an issue where enabling "Deviation TCE" calculation in estimates would cause the emissions costs to be removed from the estimate P&L. Additionally, fixed an issue where estimated bunker stems on the first port of an estimate or uncommenced voyage may not be properly considered in the carbon calculator.

Bug EN-56509

4-22-2024

Voyage P&L IMOS Only

Carbon expenses on monthly accrual had mismatch with bunker used when applied to period. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55276

4-22-2024

Chartering VIP Only

For the following ECA zones, scrubber settings as set on the representative port record will now be applied for "at sea" consumption:
ECA - GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE
ECA - BALTIC SEA
ECA - PUGET SOUND
ECA - COLUMBIA RIVER
ECA - MISSISSIPPI RIVER
ECA - AMAZON RIVER
ECA - ARGENTINA-RIVER PLATE
The default scrubber allowance setting for the above regions is for Closed Loop scrubbers.

Story EN-51789

distances-svc-1.0.94312, 4-22-2024

Distances

Routing has been improved near port Skardon River

Bug EN-57032

4-19-2024

Operations VIP Only

Introducing Vessel Fuel Modes, a feature that allows you to define multiple sets of consumption rates on a vessel to more accurately estimate bunker consumption.

This is functionality accessible by enabling CFGEnableFuelConsModes
Minimum Schema Version required - 449

Story EN-56976

4-19-2024

Demurrage & Claims VIP Only

The Estimated Demurrage Counterparty value now updates automatically through the "Auto-update from itinerary" setting.

Bug EN-56474

4-19-2024

Operations

Previously, automatically generated delays with manually set bunker information would have their qty/ROB be set to 0 after saving the cargo associated with the voyage. This is now fixed.

Bug EN-55882

distances-svc-1.0.94230, 4-19-2024

Distances

Port Atchafalaya River is now available to choose in the Vessel routing preferences screen

Story EN-56935

connect-api-1.0.1272

Connect

N/A

Story EN-56659

4-18-2024

Invoicing & Payments

Previously, repeated saves of the Provisional financials invoice did not update rules-based alerts properly. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-56051

4-18-2024

Invoicing & Payments

A new join (1-many) to Operations Invoice table has been added to the Cargo and Time Charter tables to join the related operations invoices (including emissions-related). In addition, Allow. Transfer Trans No. and Allowance ID fields have been added to the Operations Invoice table to report on specific emissions invoices related values.

Story EN-55500

4-17-2024

Security & User Mgmt VIP Only

Previously, Power BI access was not properly being granted if from membership access rights. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55534

4-17-2024

Trading

Previously, XML import of Carbon Allowance trade was not processing the Status label or Transferred flag. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55498

4-17-2024

Trading

With this change, the Carbon Allowance form includes functionality to generate a Confirmation Report. This report captures the trade details of a single Carbon Allowance Trade.

Story EN-55151

4-17-2024

Invoicing & Payments

Replaced the TDE ledger account retrieval logic with PnL business rule logic. To facilitate the transition, we introduced an Off-Ramp feature flag, "CFGUseLegacyTransactionDataEntryLedgerAccountLogic".

Config Flag Name: CFGUseLegacyTransactionDataEntryLedgerAccountLogic
Description: If enabled, the transaction data entry form will utilize the legacy ledger account logic to retrieve ledger account details for each invoice line item. If disabled, the transaction data entry form will employ the same ledger account logic used for voyage Profit and Loss (PnL) accounts.
DefaultValue="N"

Story EN-54751

4-16-2024

Chartering VIP & IMOS

Previously, in the Voyage Estimator's Itinerary Details Form, XP Days could be recorded for passing points, leading to downstream calculation issues. This was unintentional, and has been fixed.

Bug EN-56783

4-16-2024

Connect

N/A

Story EN-56682

4-16-2024

Veslink Voyage Reporting

N/A

Bug EN-56617

4-16-2024

Invoicing & Payments

Previously, opening an existing TC payment invoice from a closed TC contract, would result in an error. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55986

4-12-2024

Operations VIP Only

A new Voyage Template setting has been introduced that preserves the Estimated Demurrage Factor value.

Story EN-55293

4-12-2024

Trading

Added new cfg, CFGMoveRealizedCargoEmissionExposureToTodayWhenInThePast. When enabled, CO2 emission exposure for cargo trades realized on the voyage will be moved to the today's date if it is in the past until fully settled.

Bug EN-55267

distances-svc-1.0.94110, 4-12-2024

Distances

New port: FPSO Prosperity (Guyana)

Story EN-56513

distances-svc-1.0.94110, 4-12-2024

Distances

Time zone corrected for port ASSOCIATED TERMINALS M158

Story EN-56488

distances-svc-1.0.94110, 4-12-2024

Distances

UNCode for port Kunda corrected to EEKND

Story EN-56282

distances-svc-1.0.94110, 4-12-2024

Distances

New port: Kuurne (Belgium)

Story EN-56197

distances-svc-1.0.94110, 4-12-2024

Distances

Port Rio Grande has been renamed Rio Grande (USA)

Story EN-51067

4-11-2024

Invoicing & Payments

The issue where the From/To date column for CVE items in Time Charter payments was wrong when they were linked to Hire Adjustment on Redelivery data has been fixed.

Bug EN-55998

4-10-2024

Veslink Voyage Reporting

Resolved an error when submitting Port Activity ROB values through the API which contained decimal values

Bug EN-56732

4-10-2024

Operations IMOS Only

Previously, Tows were being deleted improperly in some workflows. Now, the logic behind their deletion has been updated to help improve their deletion in the future.

Bug EN-55906

4-10-2024

Chartering

Spot voyage estimates now consistently zero out the TCE amount in the P&L with a new flag CFGDisallowSpotEstTCE that is enabled by default. When this flag is disabled, it implements the previous behavior before this change.

Bug EN-55859

4-8-2024

Invoicing & Payments

Cargo and TC Emission allowance invoices will now let users edit the invoice's counterparty in the dedicated form. Users can select it from relevant counterparties, including a DOC Holder set on the invoice-linked contract.

Story EN-55943

4-8-2024

Veslink Voyage Reporting VIP & IMOS

Added a new column in datacenter/portActivities that allows specific activities to require ROBs. This checkbox can only be selected if the ROBs checkbox directly to the left of it is already checked. Upon selecting ROBs Required, user must Reset Master Data. API submission will now block Statement of Facts forms that lack ROBs for the associated activities.

To enable offline form validation user must send new forms to the vessels. To enable onboard validation user must run replication.

If a form is submitted and then after submission but before approval an activity has ROBs Required checked, upon loading the form there will be an error about that activity requiring an ROB and not having one. Adding an ROB value will clear the error.

For purposes of this validation, the required ROB value must be greater than zero.

Story EN-55781

4-8-2024

Trading IMOS Only

Carbon Commodity trade with settled Allowance trade still showed Unrealized PnL. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55505

4-8-2024

Voyage P&L IMOS Only

Previously, Voyage P&L Summary module did not include Carbon Emissions into it's totality when calculating with 'Latest Snapshots' as its Data Source. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55326

4-8-2024

Voyage P&L IMOS Only

Previously, recoverable expenses for claims were appearing in Voyage PnL, when the bill code was pre-populated in the claim form. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55030

4-8-2024

Voyage P&L

When Period Allocation for Demurrage was zero and the P&L Calculation Option, Adjust Portion for Demurrage Days, was in use, the Portion Percent for Accruals was not always correctly calculated. This issue has been fixed.

Bug EN-54990

4-5-2024

Operations VIP & IMOS

Previously, in the Voyage Manager, attempting to change the estimated duration of an in-progress port call where Arrival and Last Line activities had been recorded, but All Fast had not, would result in the port call's duration incorrectly changing to a different value than intended. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-56397

4-5-2024

Veslink Voyage Reporting VIP & IMOS

VVR Noon reports with bunker liftings will now only clear planned bunker stems for fuel types actually received.

Bug EN-56302

4-5-2024

Invoicing & Payments

Bill Via and Via Company selection fields have been added to the Emissions Invoice form.

Story EN-55858

4-5-2024

Invoicing & Payments

Previously, rejecting a provisional financial invoice resulted in the unintended deletion of linked operational and financial attachments for certain invoices sharing the same operation attachment key sequence as the financial one. Now, when rejecting such invoices, both operational and financial attachments are preserved.

Bug EN-55235

4-5-2024

Messaging Service

Previously, importing a paper trade XML as a Commodity could appear under the wrong paper trade type. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-54819

4-5-2024

Trading

Previously, when the Agreed ETS CO2 (MT) value was set in the Carbon Calculator, without also setting Agreed ETS Cost, the default price for Emissions Invoices was calculated incorrectly. With this release, when Agreed ETS CO2 (MT) is set, the default price for an Emissions Invoice will be the CO2 Price shown in the Carbon Calculator.

Bug EN-54797

4-5-2024

Operations VIP Only

In the Voyage Manager, the Carbon Calculator can now be opened by clicking on the Emissions Expenses P&L line item.

Story EN-53515