Changelog
This page contains the latest daily updates for Veson IMOS Platform (IMOS), Voyage Reporting, and Distances.
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Changelog by Year
Looking for an earlier IMOS version? See Release Notes in the Client Center.
Latest Changes
11-26-2024
Chartering
N/A
Story EN-62433
11-26-2024
Trading IMOS Only
When using the Benchmark Estimate method for determining exposure, inconsistencies existed in TCE calculation depending on the value of the Setting, CFGTradingCalcLowMemoryMode. Issues in the workflow with CFGTradingCalcLowMemoryMode enabled for Cargoes, VC Ins and COAs have been corrected so that TCE correctly uses market bunkers. Additionally, issue with the Trading Profile Flag, “Overwrite Itinerary on Benchmark Est”, not being applied have been resolved.
Bug EN-59364
distances-svc-1.0.105827, 11-22-2024
Distances
New port: Izov (Ukraine)
Story EN-62880
11-21-2024
Trading
Previously, IMOS would not correctly account for invoiced cargo CO2 emissions when calculating trading cargo CO2 exposure. This issue has been fixed.
Bug EN-61772
11-18-2024
Invoicing & Payments
The issue where Bank Code for payments imported through autopaybatch.exe could be wrong when the invoice Company had different currencies set up for a given bank account in it's address book has been fixed.
Bug EN-62684
11-18-2024
Journals VIP & IMOS
Previously, when running Voyage Period Journals in multithreaded mode, recreating journals that already existed would result in duplication of the journals instead of updating the journal. This issue has been resolved.
Bug EN-61063
11-15-2024
Trading VIP & IMOS
New configuration flag CFGUseContractWSFlatforM2MCalc has been added
When flag is Y and a cargo contract has a freight type of W (Worldscale), is set up with exposure method being used is Voyage Route and has a route selected that has a unit of Worldscale, the system will utilize the flat rate on the contract to calculate the exposure. The exposure will be calculated as the difference between the contract WS Flat Rate * Contract WS Percent and the contract WS Flat Rate * Market WS Percent for the period.
Story EN-62008
11-15-2024
EU ETS VIP Only
Previously, the CO2 emissions value in the Voyage Manger could be incorrect when PS or PE port activities with ROB values of zero were imported through the messaging interface. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-61692
11-15-2024
Trading
Previously, time charter trading exposure would sometimes calculate incorrectly if the contract had "Use local time" checkbox checked. This issue has been addressed.
Bug EN-61332
11-15-2024
Voyage P&L
When "Exclude from PnL" checkbox is checked on the freight invoice freight adjustment line item, the voyage number will not be assigned by default to the corresponding invoice line item when freight invoice is posted and such adjustment will not show up in the posted column of the voyage P&L.
Bug EN-61240
11-15-2024
Security & User Mgmt IMOS Only
Financial Transactions: Create Trade Commission Invoice and Create Trade Settlement Invoice Read-Only Access Right is now fixed.
Bug EN-61092
11-15-2024
Veslink Voyage Reporting
Prior to this case the "ROBs Required" checkbox in datacenter/portActivities forced user to enter a non-zero value for at least one fuel type for the selected activity. All other fuels could be blank. Now, one fuel type must have a value above zero, and all others must have a value, which can be zero.
Story EN-60928
11-13-2024
Operations
Previously, there was an error that prevented saving when a voyage is followed by a consecutive voyage that spans multiple years. This is now fixed.
Bug EN-62850
11-13-2024
Data Center Settings
SIRE Vessel Import is updated to import Stowage tank data
Story EN-62482
11-13-2024
Invoicing & Payments
A new configuration flag CFGRestrictCompOnNonVoyRevExp has been introduced to restrict creation of Non-Voyage Revenue/Expense invoices having different companies in the detail lines in the Transaction Data Entry form:
Description: When enabled, saving Non-Voyage Related Revenue/Expense invoices with different companies in the invoice details will be restricted.
Type: Boolean
Default: N
Bug EN-61548
11-13-2024
Voyage P&L IMOS Only
Previously, with multi-currency contracts, the Currency of [VoyagePnlDetails.Currency] could differ from the posted invoice detail. This issue has been resolved.
Bug EN-61263
11-13-2024
Invoicing & Payments
The issue where amounts for Bunker Costs on Delivery/Redelivery items in a TC payment/bill were not being calculated when they were added after adding other items in the invoice has been fixed.
Bug EN-61084
11-13-2024
Trading IMOS Only
With this release, Carbon Allowance Selection in emissions grids will now display Reference fields, and also a Vessel field when CFGAddVesselNametoPaperTrade is enabled.
Story EN-57760
11-13-2024
Invoicing & Payments
We now support importing APR port expense invoices containing 0 as invoice amount and a non-zero advance amount.
Story EN-53676
11-12-2024
Chartering VIP Only
Fixed a regression issue where emissions factors were not being set correctly for Voyage Estimator Fuel EU calculation.
Bug EN-62814
11-12-2024
Operations VIP Only
Vessel fleet data is now available in reporting through the new Vessel sub-table Vessel Fleet Members.
Story EN-62105
11-12-2024
Trading VIP & IMOS
With this release, a new config flag CFGCarbonPaperContractType has been added. When enabled, Commodity/Option paper trades, that are created in the system and have the "Carbon Trade“ checkbox selected, will show up under a new contract type in the Trading P&L Summary and Trade Details List called Carbon Future.
Story EN-60951
distances-svc-1.0.105029, 11-12-2024
Distances
Port: WP Ras Al Hadd has been updated to be a routing point
Story EN-62730
11-11-2024
Chartering VIP & IMOS
Previously, the Cargo and VC In forms incorrectly permitted changes to the Status of scheduled contracts, which could be immediately reverted, depending on configuration, leading to confusion. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-62322
11-11-2024
Invoicing & Payments
The issue where the Third Party field in the Payments and Receipts form was displaying inactive companies has been fixed.
Bug EN-61023
11-11-2024
Operations VIP & IMOS
The Carbon Calculator's EU ETS and Fuel EU calculations will now take emissions factors for individual bunker liftings into account. These emission factors per individual bunker lifting can be found on the Bunker Purchase Form of the bunker lifting. The factors that are used in the calculation are the 'Product' level factors.
Story EN-59598
11-8-2024
Journals
Previously, VCOV voyages with emission rebill expenses could have shown P&L invariant. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-62674
11-8-2024
Analytics VIP & IMOS
'Contact Receives SCC Emails' is now an option under the address book contacts report designer table.
Story EN-62469
11-8-2024
System Performance IMOS Only
Previously, Trial Balance failed to load when certain display columns are disabled. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-62414
11-8-2024
Trading VIP & IMOS
Previously, Carbon Transfer Price Diffs were impacting Carbon Allowance Inventory Report calculations. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-61480
11-8-2024
Invoicing & Payments
Tax of voyage expenses was missing in hire statement and SOA. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-61465
11-8-2024
Invoicing & Payments
It is now possible to save APR port expense invoices with 0 invoice amounts and just the advance amount specified for them in the Port Advance/DA form.
Story EN-54891
11-7-2024
Chartering
N/A
Story EN-62432
11-7-2024
Voyage P&L
New configuration flag CFGApplyAllowanceXDiffToPnL has been added. When enabled, exchange rate difference between the Emission Allowance Invoice and the matching Emission Allowance Transfer will be reflected on the Voyage P&L and corresponding line item will be created in Allowance Transfer Journal.
Story EN-59793
distances-svc-1.0.104689, 11-7-2024
Distances
New port: Thor Offshore Wind Farm (Denmark)
Story EN-62686
distances-svc-1.0.104689, 11-7-2024
Distances
Corrected spelling of port FPSO CD CARAGATATUBA to FPSO CD CARAGUATATUBA
Bug EN-62649
distances-svc-1.0.104689, 11-7-2024
Distances
New port: Cap D'Ambre (Madagascar)
Story EN-62540
distances-svc-1.0.104689, 11-7-2024
Distances
Time zone corrected for port Teluk Kabung
Story EN-62538
distances-svc-1.0.104689, 11-7-2024
Distances
4 New ports in Michigan and Ontario. Port Harbour Beach was also corrected to the official UNLOCODE name "Harbor Beach"
Story EN-62412
distances-svc-1.0.104689, 11-7-2024
Distances
New port: Ellis Island, Canada
Story EN-62397
11-6-2024
Chartering VIP & IMOS
An issue related to editing the Rate/Lump field on the Cargo Extra Freight Terms grid has been resolved.
Bug EN-61561
11-6-2024
Voyage P&L VIP & IMOS
Previously, when a Freight and Freight Commission Invoice were in different currencies, the "Currency" field was incorrect for Data Type, "A" and Source Code, "FCOM", in an Analytics Voyage P&L report. This issue has been fixed.
Bug EN-60723
11-6-2024
Voyage P&L
New DB column has been added to provide fort the fast access, to the columns
Bug EN-60186
11-5-2024
System Performance VIP & IMOS
Previously, FFA/FFA Option list could have been slow to load. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-61112
11-4-2024
Trading
Previously, FFA trades could have shown incorrect amount of exposure periods in the trade form when the end date of the trade was not end of the month. This has been fixed.
Bug EN-61261
11-4-2024
Operations
When CFGApplyCodePairInPortActSelection is enabled, the Port Activities Form will apply validation on paired Port Activities when saving.
Story EN-54624
11-1-2024
Operations VIP & IMOS
Fuel factor validation has changed on three forms (Fuel Grades, Fuel/Lube Types, Bunker Purchase), so they all now allow negative WtT values, and they all disallow negative TtW or LCV values.
Story EN-61883
11-1-2024
Distances
2 New routing options Lowdraft - South Sulawesi and Lowdraft - Makassar Strait
Story EN-61872
11-1-2024
Invoicing & Payments IMOS Only
The Voyage Invoice List cards now show the Amount and Port (if applicable) on the card for quick reference.
Story EN-61691
11-1-2024
Demurrage & Claims
The allocated balance (Balance field followed those Allc fields) in the itinerary list displayed the non-allocated balance value in laytime calculations. This has been fixed, it now displays the expected value.
Bug EN-61679
11-1-2024
Invoicing & Payments
When the CFGEnableFuelEU configuration flag is enabled and the schema version is greater than 472, a Voyage Fuel EU Expense item can now be included in the TC invoice form. This item is assigned the bill code of "VFEUE".
Story EN-61526
11-1-2024
Trading
Previously, pending Carbon Allowances could still be posted via transaction data entry. With this release, Carbon Allowances will no longer be able to be posted when the trade is pending.
Bug EN-61057
distances-svc-1.0.104143, 11-1-2024
Distances
New routing options for avoiding area around Halmahera Sea
Story EN-61854