March 2024 Release Notes

imos-enterprise-7.11.24172

Invoicing & Payments

The following configuration flag has been introduced to re-calculate the currency amounts (instead of base currency amounts) in the Transaction Data Entry form when exchange rate is changed in specific situations for TC invoices.

Name: CFGEnableTcFinCurrAmountRecalc
Description: When enabled, modifying exchange rates in the financial Time Charter invoices under specific circumstances will result in a recalculation of detail line amounts the same way as in Operational TC Invoices. Requires CFGAddExchDatetoTCIPandTCOBForms to be disabled and CFGActUpdateOpsExchangeRate to be enabled.
Data Type: Boolean
Default Value: N
Possible Values: Y, N

Story EN-55329

3-29-2024

Demurrage & Claims

In Laytime calculations connected to FOB cargoes, when port activities were imported from an existing calculation, the imported list was inaccurate; this has been fixed.

Bug EN-56119

3-29-2024

Disbursement Interface

We have modified the expenses code validation to check the proper code for recoverable expenses.

Bug EN-56049

3-29-2024

Demurrage & Claims

In Laytime calculations connected to FOB cargoes, Laytime Commence was populated wrong when port activities were imported from the reference voyage; this has been fixed.

Bug EN-55311

3-28-2024

Trading

Previously, an out of memory exception could occur during creation of Trading P&L Snapshots. This issue has been fixed.

Bug EN-55860

3-28-2024

Platform API

DOC Subscore is now available in the Vessel Vetting tab with the latest schema. This field can be populated by RightShip integration.

Story EN-55694

3-28-2024

Invoicing & Payments

When emission invoicing is enabled in Cargo and Time Charter contracts, related cash and allowance type invoices can now be viewed/modified in a dedicated form in VIP.

Story EN-55510

3-27-2024

Veslink Voyage Reporting VIP & IMOS

Removed support phone numbers from Veslink security pages. Support contact should be established through the Help Center, linked throughout all products.

Story EN-56007

3-27-2024

Veslink Voyage Reporting

A new checkbox that effects standard Bunkering forms has been added to Settings/System Configuration/Forms. The checkbox makes Supplier optional within standard Bunkering form.

By default, it is unchecked. This maintains the current behavior of Supplier being mandatory. If checked, bunkering forms can be submitted and approved without a Supplier.

Standard forms will have to be updated for the checkbox to effect Bunkering forms.

Story EN-55726

3-26-2024

Operations VIP Only

Fixed a potential error in voyage save pertaining to emissions calculations which could arise if a following consecutive voyage spanned two or more years.

Bug EN-56258

3-26-2024

EU ETS

Fixed an issue where ports with incorrectly ordered Port Activities could result in a sustainability panel without values.

Bug EN-56103

3-26-2024

Veslink Voyage Reporting VIP & IMOS

Added support for PortCargoId as a property of a Port Activity entry in API Statement of Facts Veslink form submissions. When present with the cargo name, can be used to disambiguate port cargo mappings for port activities.

Story EN-55854

3-26-2024

Chartering

Added 7 river/sea areas (Amazon River, Mississippi River, Baltic Sea, River Plate Argentina, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Columbia River, Puget Sound) to the Fuel Zones list, where fuel requirements can now be set for traveling through these regions.

Story EN-51788

3-25-2024

Analytics

Previously P&L calculation options would not always be correctly applied in report designer. The issue has been fixed.

Story EN-55087

3-25-2024

Trading IMOS Only

When the Settlement Type is set to Allowances on the Emissions tab, the Allowance Invoice and Allowance Transfer rows are now positionally closer to Emissions setting fields.

Story EN-54973

3-25-2024

Trading IMOS Only

With this release, DOC Holder can be saved on the contract in the Emissions tab.

Story EN-54823

3-25-2024

Trading

Added functionality to the CFGEnableDueDateonCarbonTrade configuration flag. Now, all allowance trades that are created prior to expiration of the commodity/option carbon trade will be excluded from exposure to prevent double counting.

Story EN-54796

3-22-2024

Invoicing & Payments

Previously, VIP did not properly auto-generate invoice numbers based on the related configuration flags for Emissions Allowance Transfer invoice types. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55784

3-22-2024

Voyage P&L VIP & IMOS

Previously top-off freight in non-base currency was incorrectly reflected in voyage P&L. This issue has been fixed.

Bug EN-55693

3-22-2024, imos-enterprise-7.11.24172

Invoicing & Payments

The following configuration flag has been introduced to re-calculate the currency amounts (instead of base currency amounts) in the Transaction Data Entry form when exchange rate is changed in specific situations for TC invoices.

Name: CFGEnableTcFinCurrAmountRecalc
Description: When enabled, modifying exchange rates in the financial Time Charter invoices under specific circumstances will result in a recalculation of detail line amounts the same way as in Operational TC Invoices. Requires CFGAddExchDatetoTCIPandTCOBForms to be disabled and CFGActUpdateOpsExchangeRate to be enabled.
Data Type: Boolean
Default Value: N
Possible Values: Y, N

Bug EN-55620

3-22-2024

Invoicing & Payments

Previously, importing a provisional invoice updates through the VIP interface with VAT-related fields set ("vatCurr", "vatExchangeRate" and "vatExchangeRateDate") - resulted in the existing invoice missing the VAT data. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55158

3-22-2024

Journals VIP & IMOS

Previously, off hires could generate a discrepancy Monthly Accruals when using 'Apply Off Hire/Waiting to Period' and if local time is used in the linked TC contract. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55013

3-22-2024

Trading IMOS Only

Carbon Allowance view has been expanded to increase size of grid.

Story EN-54994

3-22-2024

EU ETS VIP & IMOS

Importing Emission Allowance invoices and Emission Allowance Transfer invoices now requires trading module license.

Story EN-54974

3-22-2024

Trading

Previously, turning on the "Move Physical Bunker Exposure Ahead One Month" could have resulted in unexpected TC exposure in some trades. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-54914

3-22-2024

Invoicing & Payments

After the fix, both SOA and hire statement show proper off hire commission now.

Bug EN-54737

3-22-2024

Operations VIP Only

CO2 Emissions Factors are now overridable on Voyages and Estimates. The minimum schema version required is 45.4.

Story EN-51268

distances-svc-1.0.93327, 3-22-2024

Distances

New port: FPSO Sepetiba (Brazil)

Story EN-55759

distances-svc-1.0.93327, 3-22-2024

Distances

New port: Villa Hakatha (Maldives)

Story EN-55443

distances-svc-1.0.93327, 3-22-2024

Distances

New port: Boffa (Guinea)

Story EN-54872

3-21-2024

Chartering VIP Only

When copying an estimate with CFGRecalcDistancesOnEstimateCopy enabled, fixed an issue where port ECA info may not be properly updated if the previously-set port ECA has been marked as "inactive".

Bug EN-56037

3-21-2024

Data Center Settings VIP & IMOS

An error encountered when importing certain vessels has been resolved.

Bug EN-56019

3-21-2024

EU ETS VIP Only

Previously, EU ETS calculation errors were introduced for port calls with port activity ROB data and a bunker lifting assigned to port departure, as well as port calls with no port activity ROB data and bunker liftings assigned to various times within the port call. These errors have been resolved.

Bug EN-55894

3-21-2024

Veslink Voyage Reporting VIP Only

Fixed issues that caused veslink forms to display incorrect values in the "Last ROB" column when viewing a form as PDF or in Onboard.

Bug EN-55558

3-21-2024

Trading

Previously, Bunker Swap market rates displayed in the Trade Details List had slight discrepancies with the settlement rate of the trade. This issue has been resolved.

Bug EN-54778

3-21-2024

Invoicing & Payments

Previously, in Multicurrency Time Charter rebill currency amounts were calculated incorrectly when modifying exchange rates. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-54752

3-20-2024

Platform UI VIP Only

Broken image link in login banner fixed

Bug EN-56036

3-20-2024

Voyage P&L

Previously, Demurrage Commissions with multiple cargoes and two ports (reversible) were not displayed in the Actual column of the Voyage P&L. This issue has been fixed.

Story EN-55080

3-19-2024

Operations VIP Only

Fixed a potential SQL error when loading voyages with TC allowance transfer invoices if IMOS database has not been upgraded to v439 or above.

Bug EN-55966

3-19-2024

EU ETS VIP & IMOS

Added two new controls "Pre-Voyage Port of Call" and "Post-Voyage Port of Call" on the bottom of the Carbon Calculator for both Voyages and Estimates (with an upgraded schema). When set, these impact calculated values in the "Sea ETS %" and "Port ETS %" fields.

Story EN-55004

3-19-2024

Messaging Service

After the fix, when import an invoice which includes UDF, the UDF would be stored with the invoice properly.

Story EN-54811

focus-messaging-svc-1.0.93139

Messaging Service

For emission message publishing/applying, missing co2 factor will not block the request. If fuel type is given, it will map the default co2 factor to corresponding type and consumption data in the response will include it.

Story EN-54798

3-18-2024

Invoicing & Payments VIP Only

In the invoice XML notification, "invoiceDetails/oprBillRef" will now be included in the export if the invoice detail line has such a relation to another operations invoice.

Story EN-55799

3-18-2024

Design VIP Only

Style change to Veslink login page

Story EN-55595

3-18-2024

Distances

Parent Country, EU ETS Port of Call, and Outermost Region will now be copied to new Alias ports on creation, and be editable on Alias ports. These fields will remain non-editable for Standard ports, and the EU ETS Exclusion (STS) checkbox will stay editable for both Standard and Alias ports.

Story EN-55398

3-18-2024

Design VIP Only

New banners on Veslink login page

Story EN-55333

3-15-2024

Tasks & Alerts

New configuration flag has been added:
Flag: CFGDuplicateVesselImoNoValidationHandling
Description: When enabled, Vessel form will validate the IMO No. against existing active vessels in VIP to prevent duplicates. If vessel security is enabled, it will check only vessels that user has access to. Possible validation level values: None, Warning, Error.
Data Type: String
Default Value: None
Possible Values: None, Warning, Error.

Configuration flag only affects Vessel form UI in VIP - and does not apply to the interface vessel imports at the moment.

Story EN-55760

3-15-2024

Trading

Previously, carbon allowance invoices in a pending state were not available for display in Voyage P&L. With this release, a new checkbox has been added to Emissions tabs to enable pending carbon allowance invoices to be included in P&L, on a per-contract basis. Also, a configuration flag "CFGInclPendingAllowanceInvInPnl" has been added to provide a default value for the checkbox.

Story EN-55113

distances-svc-1.0.92993, 3-15-2024

Distances

ECA Zones for Bohai Sea, Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong are now able to have Propulsion at Sea configured in the Fuel Zones page

Story EN-52925

3-14-2024

Platform UI VIP Only

N/A

Bug EN-55706

3-14-2024

Distances VIP Only

Scroll bar added to ECA and Piracy region dropdowns in Distances map

Story EN-39581

connect-api-1.0.1162, connect-app-1.0.3452

Connect

Port call and claim are added in global search filter.
These objects are filterable and searchable through the search bar and clicking will direct to detail page

Story EN-55355

connect-app-1.0.3436

Connect

text box not matching to co2 factor issue has been fixed

Bug EN-55790

3-13-2024

Veslink Voyage Reporting VIP & IMOS

Added more mappings for fuel types for form sharing

Story EN-55444

3-12-2024

Chartering VIP Only

Previously, the Supplier and Receiver fields of cargoes linked to bookings could be overwritten with the booking's Supplier and Receiver values of (m). This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55632

3-12-2024

Messaging Service

The following tags have been added to the "invoice" interface message XML: "oprBillSubCode" and "oprBillSubCodeDesc". They will contain values for the Subcode specified on the Voyage Other Revenue/Expenses invoices. In addition, Operations Invoice table in the Report Designer will link the related Expense entry properly for these invoice types now.

Story EN-46730

3-11-2024

Scheduling VIP & IMOS

Significantly improved performance of editing row details for user-defined fields on the Open Position Details and Cargo Booking Details pages

Bug EN-55032

3-11-2024

Trading

A new field called "Match Type" has been added to the Emissions Tab on the Cargo/VC In contract form and the TC In/Out contract form. The field is visible only when Settlement Type selected is ALLOWANCE or HYBRID.

This field is a dropdown with the following options:

N/A - When selected, the Allowance ID dropdown will not have any specific matching criteria applied and all allowances with available quantities will be shown in the dropdown

COMPANY - When selected, the Allowance ID dropdown in the will only show those allowances that have available quantity and also have a company code that matches the company code on the current contract.

STRATEGY - When selected, the Allowance ID dropdown in the will only show those allowances that have available quantity and also have a trade strategy that matches the company code on the current contract.

if there is no strategy on the contract, then only those Carbon Allowances with no strategy will be displayed

COMPANY+STRATEGY - will look to match on both company code and strategy values

New configuration flag CFGDefaultAllowanceTransferMatch has been added. This configuration flag will set the default on the contracts, but the default can be overridden.

Story EN-54762

3-11-2024

Operations

N/A

Story EN-54636

connect-app-1.0.3393

Connect

Status column in the claim list page has reordered to the first column

Story EN-55657

3-8-2024

Trading

Pre-Allocated, Transferred, and Remaining Qty fields have been added to Carbon Allowance's list view and as part of the Paper Trade table in Report Designer.

Story EN-54995

3-8-2024

Voyage P&L

Previously, when a Demurrage claim became a despatch P&L item via Incremental invoice, the demurrage commission still remained in the Voyage P&L. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-54434

3-8-2024

EU ETS

Cargo and TC Emissions invoices can now import the EU Registry setting through the interface. The following elements have been added to the "invoice" interface message schema: "registryAccCompNo" and
"registryAccCompSeq". Database schema version 45.2 and higher is required and CFGEnableCargoEmissionsAllocation and CFGEnableTCEmissionsAllocation configuration flags have to be set accordingly.

Story EN-54326

3-8-2024

Invoicing & Payments VIP Only

Previously, remittance bank selection on a Relet Freight invoice did not work as expected after posting and reversing it. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-54297

3-8-2024

Chartering VIP Only

Voyage Estimates will now automatically inherit previous distances and emissions from preceding voyages for the purpose of calculating YTD emissions and CII values.

Story EN-53977

3-7-2024-r2

Trading

The trading P&L snapshot failure has been fixed.

Bug EN-55646

3-7-2024-r2

Trading VIP & IMOS

Two new fields are added to Voyage Estimate Carbon Calculator:
- Symbol - this will be a dropdown of the Commodity Symbols that have the Carbon checkbox selected
- Basis - this is a date selector field. The date chosen here will determine what price is pulled
When the Symbol and Basis is selected in the estimate the following fields are updated:
Currency - will pull the Currency value from the symbol
Price - will pull the latest market data price for the symbol and the date chosen.
Requires minimum schema version of 44.8.

Story EN-54291

3-7-2024

Trading IMOS Only

Trading PnL snapshot was failing in situations where commodity currency was not specified for Carbon Allowances. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55339

3-7-2024

EU ETS

Cargo/VC In Emissions Cash, Allowance, and Allowance Transfer invoice notification XMLs should now properly include Cargo/VC In data in the "invoiceCargoInfo" section, including UDFs.

Bug EN-54343

3-6-2024

Journals VIP & IMOS

Previously, using the "Apply Carbon Expenses to Period" in Monthly Accruals could've excluded applicable expenses. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-54668

3-6-2024

Trading

Added functionality in the Emissions tab. The From and To field as well as the Voy No. field will automatically populate based on Billing Period and Payment terms settings. When the Billing Period is None, then the To date will not populate automatically. The Allowance ID dropdown in the Allowance Transfers grid now includes the Company column.

Story EN-53797

3-6-2024

Invoicing & Payments

We now enforce the claim commission import XML to have the link to the original claim invoice.

Story EN-53292

3-5-2024

Trading

Previously, CO2 exposure from the cargo could have been incorrect if the cargo was set to part cargo. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55377

3-5-2024

Operations VIP Only

Externally specified Report Emission Data will now take precedence in the Voyage Sustainability Panel calculations for SPOT, RELT, and VCOV operation types.

Story EN-55003

3-5-2024

Trading

Previously, bunker exposure could have been aggregated incorrectly in the horizontal trading summary grid. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-54589

3-5-2024

Trading

Previously, when "Apply Contract Correlation To Weighted Days" option was used in Trading Profile, weighted days calculations for FFAs were showing as 0 in Trading PnL Summary. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-54545

3-5-2024

Invoicing & Payments

Previously, an invoice would occasionally display as Demurrage instead of Despatch when the invoice only contained a Despatch amount. This has been corrected.

Bug EN-54250

3-5-2024

Journals

Previously, after changing currency on Journal Entry form, total amount was not reflected correctly in the generated report. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-54220

3-4-2024

Chartering VIP Only

In estimates and voyages, when the itinerary contains multiple instances of the same canal in ballast and laden state, fixed an issue where updating the itinerary via the CP Terms Details form could cause canal toll defaulting to inadvertently apply ballast tolls on laden legs or vice versa for the previously-used canal.

Bug EN-55063

connect-app-1.0.3357

Connect

Emission map has more concise error messages indicating missing fields that are required for OB ais position request.
Also when departure date is not selected for terminating port, the map will default the positions to current date and having warning message.

Story EN-55420

3-1-2024

EU ETS

Previously, user access rights for Cargo contract were not applied properly to Emissions related grids in the contract. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-55184