Release Notes 2024
New release notes schedule
To improve your experience with new feature releases, we now offer weekly curated release notes posted every Friday.
Explore a tailored list of features and fixes with helpful images and documentation to better understand what changes apply to your workflow.
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UPDATE NEW FEATURE SECURITY
December
27 December 2024
Nothing new to share.
20 December 2024
Distances
New “State” value for Canadian ports UPDATE
We are now maintaining the “State” property on ports as part of the Distances upgrade process. We have started by adding a "State" value for a number of existing Canadian ports that reflects the province the port resides in. We will populate the State value of more Canadian and United States ports over time.
13 December 2024
Chartering
FuelEU Compliance Breakeven Calculator NEW FEATURE
Configuration flag CFGFuelEUComplianceBreakevenCalc must be enabled.
The FuelEU tab of the Carbon Calculator now supports a feature to show the breakeven point at which the compliance balance becomes zero by replacing non-compliant fuel with compliant fuel. This calculation is an estimation tool that simulates the compliant fuel amount consumed and non-compliant fuel replaced on a voyage to reach zero compliance. This feature requires activating the new configuration flag CFGFuelEUComplianceBreakevenCalc.
TC/Head Contract field added to drive FuelEU Penalty on the P&L UPDATE
Requires a schema version of 479 or higher.
With this release, a new FuelEU Calc Default dropdown appears on the Emissions tab in the TCI/TCO forms. When “Penalty” is selected, the voyage PnL expenses for the FuelEU penalty show on voyages with “Include in PnL” selected. When “N/A” is selected from the dropdown, no FuelEU penalty expense lines will show for associated voyages.
6 December 2024
Operations
Support added for XML import of fuel emission factors in the Bunker Purchase form UPDATE
The Bunker Requirement Import and Update XML now supports pre-test viscosity, post-test viscosity, and bio and fossil fuel factors. You can also manually capture these fuel emission factors in the Bunker Purchase form under the fuel tab.
November
29 November 2024
Nothing new to share.
22 November 2024
Nothing new to share.
15 November 2024
Operations
Emissions factors for individual bunker liftings are now accounted for in the Carbon Calculator UPDATE
The Carbon Calculator's EU ETS and FuelEU calculations will now account for emissions factors for individual bunker liftings. The emission factors for individual bunker liftings can be found on the Bunker Purchase form of the bunker lifting. The factors used in the calculation are the “Product” level factors.
Trading
This is an additional solution and requires a separate license. You must have the General Trading Module Right selected. Access to other forms and actions also requires specific Module Rights. Your configuration might differ from the information shown. Requires user permissions to enter Carbon Allowance Trades.
New “Carbon Future” commodity contract type added to the Trading P&L Summary and Trade Detail List UPDATE
Configuration flag CFGCarbonPaperContractType must be enabled.
Commodity/Option paper trades created in IMOS and with the "Carbon Trade“ checkbox selected will now appear in the Trading P&L Summary and Trade Details List under a new contract type called Carbon Future. This allows you to quickly view your carbon positions, including paper and physical positions.
Support added for calculating cargo exposure when using Worldscale freight and market rate UPDATE
Configuration flag CFGUseContractWSFlatforM2MCalc must be enabled.
When a cargo contract has:
a freight type of W (Worldscale),
an exposure method of “Voyage Route,” and
a selected route with a unit of Worldscale,
IMOS will use the Worldscale flat rate on the contract to calculate the exposure. The exposure will be calculated as the difference between the contract Worldscale flat rate × the contract Worldscale percent and the contract Worldscale flat rate × the market Worldscale percent for the period.
8 November 2024
Nothing new to share.
1 November 2024
Chartering
Fuel factor validation now allows for negative Well-to-Tank (WtT) values UPDATE
Fuel factor validation has changed on the Fuel Grades table, Fuel/Lube Types table, and Bunker Purchase form to allow for negative Well-to-Tank (WtT) values. Negative Tank-to-Wake (TtW) or Lower Caloric Value (LCV) values are not allowed.
Invoice FuelEU Maritime expenses on time charter payment and billing forms UPDATE
Requires a schema version of 472 or higher. Configuration flag CFGEnableFuelEU must also be enabled.
You can now include voyage FuelEU expense items in the time charter (TC) invoice form as a way to invoice FuelEU costs on time charter contracts. The new FuelEU Expense checkbox drives a per voyage FuelEU line item on:
Hire payments (TCI)
Hire Billing (TCO)
Head fixture payments (head fix)
It will pull in the voyage line item when a voyage is complete and has not been invoiced previously. Items are assigned the bill code "VFEUE.” Voyages must be complete before FuelEU expense items can be invoiced.
Data Center
Track specific fuel grade carbon factors with new fields in the Fuel Grades table UPDATE
Requires a schema version of 472 or higher
With a schema upgrade, the Fuel Grades form will show 13 new fields to capture bio blend fuel factors.
October
25 October 2024
Chartering
Requires a schema version 475 or higher.
The Agreed Compliance Balance (MT) field appears in the Fuel EU tab of the Carbon Calculator with a schema upgrade of 475 or higher. You can adjust the field with actual values and override the existing aggregated Compliance Balance (MT) values. The initial field value is the same as the Compliance Balance aggregate field, and manually entered values appear in blue text. Reports have the new Agreed Compliance Balance (MT) field for Voyages and Estimates.
New in the Voyage P&L: Include in PnL checkbox now in the Fuel EU tab UPDATE
Requires a schema version 472 or higher.
The Include in PnL checkbox is now available in the Fuel EU Calculator for Voyage P&L so you can track and invoice your expenses.
18 October 2024
Chartering
New in the Estimate P&L: Include in PnL checkbox in the Fuel EU tab UPDATE
Requires a schema version 472 or higher.
The Include in PnL checkbox is now available in the Fuel EU Calculator for Estimate P&L so you can assess the Fuel EU impact and include penalties in your Estimate PnL.
11 October 2024
Operations
New in Voyages & Estimates: Add new entries to the Speed Consumption Table for Custom Fuel Modes UPDATE
To set specific speeds for different fuel modes and consumption types, you can now add new entries to the Speed Consumption Table for Secondary Fuel Cons Modes in the Vessel form. When a speed consumption line is added as a non-default mode, the speed reflects on Voyage or Estimate when the specific mode is assigned as a sea mode.
4 October 2024
Nothing new to share.
September
27 September 2024
Chartering
New fields for agreed amounts in the FuelEU Calculator UPDATE
Requires a schema version 463 or higher.
Three new fields have been added to the FuelEU tab on the Carbon Calculator for Voyages and Estimates:
Exchange Rate (EUR to Base)
Agreed Penalty (EUR)
Agreed Penalty (Base)
These fields allow users to override the total penalty values, and to convert between EUR and the voyage's base currency. These fields are also available for reporting.
Operations
Save and annotate Total Energy, Compliance Balance, and Penalty Fields in the FuelEU Calculator UPDATE
Requires a schema version 463 or higher.
On the FuelEU tab of the Carbon Calculator, the three aggregate fields (Total Energy, Compliance Balance (MT), and Penalty (EUR)) will now be saved and can be reported on.
20 September 2024
Nothing new to share.
13 September 2024
Chartering
Alt Qty and Alt Unit added to Cargo Import XML message UPDATE
Cargo Import and Export XML now include Alt Lifting Qty and Alt Lifting Units.
6 September 2024
Nothing new to share.
August
30 August 2024
Operations
FuelEU Maritime Calculator NEW FEATURE
Requires a schema version 463 or higher.
A FuelEU Calculator is now available on the Carbon Calculator under a new tab enabled with the configuration flag CFGEnableFuelEU. The FuelEU calculation breaks down Consumption, Energy, GHG Intensities, and Compliance Balance by voyage leg and displays Voyage Total Energy, Compliance Balance, and Penalty amounts. This feature requires an IMOS database schema version 463 or higher.
23 August 2024
Trading
Link a carbon allowance sale to a purchase and include it as an allocation NEW FEATURE
This is an additional solution and requires a separate license. You must have the General Trading Module Right selected. Access to other forms and actions also requires specific Module Rights. Your configuration might differ from the information shown. Requires user permissions to enter Carbon Allowance Trades.
You can now link a Carbon Allowance Sell Trade to one or more matching Buy Trades so the available inventory of specific trades can be updated correctly. This feature uses the existing Allocation tabs in the Carbon Allowance trade, where you can select the buy/sell trade you want to link to and then choose the quantity to link. As with transfers, you cannot allocate a greater quantity from the buy than is available at that time. Linking the sell trade to the buy updates the available quantity of the trade so it can be correctly linked to other trades or contracts in the system. The exposure for the buy trade updates to reflect the remaining trade quantity.
July
New in Journals: Support for Accruing Freight by Individual BL Dates for Multi-Cargo Voyages
A new checkbox, Prorate Freight Revenue on a Per Cargo Basis, is now in the Accruals Form. When selected, the accruals program uses the BL Date for individual cargo(s) and the cargo’s BL quantity to calculate the accrual percentage and amount to accrue for freight. A new configuration flag, CFGDefaultPnlCalcProrateFreightRevenuePerCargo, automatically enables the calculation option on the Accruals form by default. When you set the CFGDefaultPnlCalcApplyInternalFreightRevenue configuration flag to Y, internal cargoes accrue 100% to the period of the BL Date.
June
New in Operations: EOV fields are now available in the Voyage Report Designer table
End of Voyage (EOV) CII statistics fields, including EndOfVoyageDistance, EndOfVoyageEmission, EndOfVoyageAer, and EndOfVoyageCiiGrade, are now available in the Voyage Report Designer table.
May
New in Sustainability: Additional voyage legs included in the Carbon Calculator
To improve the accuracy of emissions calculations, the system now adds an additional leg to the Carbon Calculator itinerary grid under these three conditions:
the environment is upgraded to the latest schema (45.8)
the port call is the last one on the voyage/estimate
the port call has a Last Line Port Activity
In this case, this additional leg is considered sea, not port, consumption. This functionality works in conjunction with existing behavior that splits itinerary lines that cross years.
New in Operations: Set a default view for the Voyage Manager side panel
Requires the configuration flag CFGDefaultVoyPanel.
You can set a default view for the Voyage Manager side panel by enabling the new configuration flag CFGDefaultVoyPanel. When enabled, the Voyage Manager panel loads a selected view by default when you enter a value between one and eleven that corresponds to the following views: 1 - P&L, 2 - Sustainability, 3 - Summary, 4 - Invoices, 5 - Notifications, 6 - Revisions, 7 - Forms, 8 - Instructions, 9 - Contacts, 10 - Notes, 11 - Properties. If you set the value to 0, no side panel will be visible on page load. The default configuration flag value is 1, which maintains the existing view.
New in Tasks and Alerts: Added Contract Type field
The Contract Type field is added to Cargo/VC In Tasks & Alerts and Advanced Pricing, allowing you to identify a cargo contract as a sale (Cargo) or a purchase (VC In) contract.
April
New in Operations: Fuel Modes
Requires the configuration flag CFGEnableFuelConsModes and a schema version of 449 or higher.
Introducing Vessel Fuel Modes, a feature that allows you to define multiple sets of consumption rates on a vessel to accurately estimate bunker consumption. You can access Fuel Modes by enabling the configuration flag CFGEnableFuelConsModes. This functionality requires a schema version of 449 or higher.
New in Operations: Improved validation of Port Activity ROBs
All Fast and Last Line port activity fuel ROB values are now validated on the Voyage Manager and Port Activity forms. The system considers ROB values invalid if they show negative consumption or if some values are populated while others are missing. Invalid records are highlighted on the ROBs grid within the Port Activity form, and an error message shows on the Voyage Manager validation display.
New in Veslink Voyage Reporting: Require ROBs in SOF forms
A new column, ROBs Required, is available in the Data Center under Port Activities. This checkbox allows you to require ROBs for specific activities in Veslink for both standard and custom SOF forms. ROBs Required can only be selected if the ROBs checkbox is also selected.
When you select the ROBs Required checkbox, you must reset the master data to apply the change. API submission will block Statement of Facts forms that lack ROBs for the associated activities.
To enable offline form validation, you must send new forms to the vessels. For onboard validation, you must run replication.
If a form is submitted but not yet approved and an activity has ROBs Required checked, then you will see an error upon loading the form that the activity is missing a required ROB value. Add an ROB value greater than zero to clear this error.
New in Chartering: Scrubber settings applied to At Sea consumption for specific ECA zones
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 listed regions is for Closed-loop scrubbers.
March
New in Invoicing & Payments: Emission invoicing enhancements in Cargo and Time Charter contracts
Requires the configuration flags CFGEnableCargoEmissionsAllocation flag for Cargo and VC In Contracts and the CFGEnableTCEmissionsAllocation flag for Time Charter (In/Out) Contracts and Head Fixture Contracts. Requires a schema version of 44.5 or higher.
When emission invoicing is enabled in Cargo and Time Charter contracts, you can view and modify related Cash and Allowance invoices in a dedicated IMOS form.
New in Sustainability: Pre-Voyage EU Port of Call and Post-Voyage EU Port of Call added to the Carbon Calculator
Requires a schema version of 45.3 or higher. Requires the configuration flag CFGSustainability.
To account for the vessel position before and after the voyage and drive the correct ETS percentages, two new controls, Pre-Voyage Port of Call and Post-Voyage Port of Call, are added to the Carbon Calculator for Voyages and Estimates. When set, these fields impact calculated values in the Sea ETS % and Port ETS % fields.
New in Chartering: Automatically use EOV values from previous voyages in the Carbon View on the Estimator worksheet
Requires a schema version of 45.3 or higher. Requires the configuration flags CFGEnableCarbonView and CFGEnableCiiCalc.
Voyage Estimates now automatically inherit previous distances and emissions from preceding voyages to improve YTD emissions and CII values calculations.
New in Operations: Override CO2 emissions factors in Voyage and Estimates
Requires a schema version of 45.4 or higher.
You can now override CO2 emissions factors in the Carbon Calculator for Estimates and in the Voyage Manager under Voyage Bunkers for Voyages.
February
New in the Data Center: Store EU Registry Account Number and Information on the Address Book
Requires the configuration flag CFGEURegistryAccountOnAddress. Requires a schema version of 44.5 or higher.
You can now store the EU Registry account number and information in the Address Book when the configuration flag CFGEURegistryAccountOnAddress is enabled. The Emissions Allowance Invoice and the Emissions Allowance Transfer use the account listed.
New in Trading: Indicate Transferred Carbon Allowances and create new Carbon Allowances from a TC Out or Cargo Contract
This is an additional solution and requires a separate license. You must have the General Trading Module Right selected. Access to other forms and actions also requires specific Module Rights. Your configuration might differ from the information shown. Requires user permissions to enter Carbon Allowance Trades.
You can use the new Transferred checkbox on the Carbon Allowance form to indicate allowances transferred from a counterparty instead of bought from the market. When a Cargo or TC Out contract has an Allowance Settlement type of Allowances or Hybrid, and there is a posted Allowance Invoice, you can right-click on the Allowance Invoice row to create a new Carbon Allowance.
Automatically update the Voyage Estimate Commence Date to today’s date
Requires the configuration flag CFGAutopopulateEstCommencedDate.
The system will auto-populate the Voyage Estimate Commence Date to today when the new configuration flag CFGAutopopulateEstCommencedDate is enabled. If set to 0 or any positive integer, the Commence Date will be populated with today's date plus the entered value when creating or copying a new Estimate. If left blank, there is no change to the current behavior.
New in Sustainability: Edit Sea and Port Emissions fields in Voyages and Estimates
Requires a schema version 432 or higher.
To improve the accuracy of calculated emissions values, the Sea ETS Emission (MT) and Port ETS Emission (MT) columns are now editable for both Voyages and Voyage Estimates in the Carbon Calculator. When a field is overridden, the new value appears in blue text. If a field is cleared, it returns to the auto-calculated value, which appears in black text.
New in Trading: View the Emissions tab on Cargo COA and VC IN COA Contracts
This is an additional solution and requires a separate license. You must have the General Trading Module Right selected. Access to other forms and actions also requires specific Module Rights. Your configuration might differ from the information shown. Requires the configuration flag CFGEnableVCCOAEmissionsAllocation.
The Emissions tab is visible on Cargo COA and VC IN COA Contracts when the configuration flag CFGEnableVCCOAEmissionsAllocation is enabled. You can capture emissions settlement details on the Emissions tab, including the Allowance Settlement, Billing Period, and payment terms. If these are defined at the COA level, the lifting defaults to these values. The tables tracking the invoices and transfers will only be visible at the lifting level, where the COA contract captures the contract values. If a lifting already has a settlement type defined, changing it at the COA level does not override the lifting level unless Bulk Update is used. The available Settlement Types differ depending on an environment’s license.
New in Operations: EU ETS Exclusion (STS) checkbox added to the Port form
A new EU ETS Exclusion (STS) checkbox is visible on the Port form. When selected for a port, the port will be excluded as a Port of Call from the Carbon Calculator.
New in Chartering: Estimate-level Emissions Expense Rebill
Requires the configuration flags CFGEnableCO2Pricing and CFGEnableCargoEmissionsAllocation to be enabled. Requires schema version 446 or higher.
An Emissions tab is added to the CP Terms Details form that includes the Settlement Type, Billing Period, and Payment Terms fields. An Emission Expenses (Rebill) line item will appear in the Estimate P&L for certain operation types when a cargo is configured with a non-N/A settlement type.
January
New in Chartering: A 5% discount is now applied to ice class vessels for EU ETS emission calculations
Requires schema version of 443 or higher.
The system now supports allowance reductions for ice class IA or IA Super vessel types in EU ETS emission calculations. With the EU ETS regulation, shipping companies may surrender 5% fewer allowances than their verified emissions from ships with ice class IA or IA Super or an equivalent ice class until 31 December 2030.
New in Chartering: General Cargo Ships are now supported in CII calculations
Previously, specific CII parameters were unavailable for General Cargo Ships, a subtype of Bulk Carriers, in CII calculations. Bulk Carriers can now be specified as General Cargo Ships using a checkbox on the Vessel Form, and the CII calculation accounts for them accordingly.
New in Trading: CO2 Exposure is added to COA Contracts
Requires the configuration flag CFGEnableCOACO2Exposure and a schema version of 442 or higher. This is an additional solution and requires a separate license. You must have the General Trading Module Right selected. Access to other forms and actions also requires specific Module Rights. Your configuration might differ from the information shown.
When the configuration flag CFGEnableCOACO2Exposure is enabled, the Cargo and VC In COA contracts will now support tracking CO2 exposure when the Exposure Method is set to Benchmark Estimate or Manual Exposure. The CO2 Exposure fields that are defined will flow down to the linked liftings when the "Use Exposure Settings From COA“ checkbox is selected. The CO2 Exposure will show up on the Trading P&L Summary and Trade Details list under the COA contract for the covered periods when the lifting is not set to confirmed.
New in the Messaging Service: Added Interface Support for the Emissions Expense Cash Invoice Type, Allowance Invoice, and Allowance Transfer Types
Interface Support is added for the Emissions Cash Invoice and the Emissions Allowance Invoice through the invoiceImport XML and API. You can now generate Emissions Allowance Invoices or Emissions Cash Invoices externally from IMOS.