Glomaris
Glomaris is a modernized distances engine that optimizes vessel routing using an extensive database and real-time data to determine optimal paths. Built with a sophisticated frontend and powerful calculation engine, Glomaris delivers precise distance and time calculations while intelligently avoiding restricted zones and optimizing for operational efficiency.
Whether planning a single voyage or managing a fleet, Glomaris provides the routing intelligence needed to reduce costs, enhance safety, and improve voyage performance through data-driven route optimization.
Core Capability
Distance & Time Calculations
Glomaris's modernized distances engine calculates precise voyage distances and transit times using advanced algorithms and comprehensive maritime databases. The system accounts for great circle routing, weather patterns, ocean currents, and vessel-specific performance characteristics to deliver accurate estimates.
These calculations form the foundation for efficient voyage planning, enabling chartering teams to make informed decisions about voyage duration, fuel consumption, and laytime planning. The engine continuously updates calculations as route parameters change, ensuring real-time accuracy.
Precise Routing
Great circle calculations optimized for actual vessel performance and real-world navigation constraints.
Time Estimates
Accurate transit time predictions based on vessel speed, weather conditions, and route characteristics.
Real-Time Updates
Calculations update dynamically as route parameters change, ensuring current accuracy throughout voyage planning.
Core Capability
Via Points Selection
Select specific via points that your vessel must pass through, enabling precise route control for operational, commercial, or strategic requirements. Glomaris optimizes the route between your origin, via points, and destination, ensuring the most efficient path while respecting all constraints.
Strategic Routing
Plan routes that pass through specific ports, waypoints, or regions to meet commercial requirements or operational needs.
Multi-Point Optimization
The engine automatically optimizes the sequence and path between multiple via points, minimizing total distance and transit time.
This capability is essential for complex voyages requiring intermediate stops, cargo operations at multiple ports, or routes that must follow specific corridors for commercial or regulatory reasons.
Core Capability
Intelligent Zone Avoidance
Glomaris automatically routes vessels around restricted zones, ensuring compliance with security, environmental, and operational constraints. The system maintains an extensive database of zone restrictions and updates routes in real-time as conditions change.
Security Zone Avoidance
Routes automatically avoid piracy risk areas, conflict zones, and security-restricted regions, enhancing crew safety and minimizing operational risks.
Environmental Restrictions
Avoids protected marine areas, emission control zones, and environmentally sensitive regions to ensure regulatory compliance.
Ice Risk Zones
Routes around ice-prone areas using real-time ice data and seasonal patterns, protecting vessels and ensuring safe navigation in polar regions.
Zone avoidance is seamlessly integrated into route optimization, ensuring that the most efficient path is found while respecting all restrictions. The system continuously monitors zone updates and automatically adjusts routes as conditions change.
Core Capability
Ship Draft Restrictions
Glomaris accounts for vessel draft limitations when calculating routes, ensuring that recommended paths are navigable for your specific vessel. The system considers water depth data, tidal variations, and draft restrictions at ports and channels.
By incorporating draft constraints into route optimization, Glomaris prevents routing vessels through shallow waters or channels that cannot accommodate the vessel's draft, reducing the risk of grounding and ensuring safe navigation.
Vessel-Specific Routing
Routes are calculated based on your vessel's actual draft, ensuring all recommended paths are navigable.
Depth Data Integration
Comprehensive bathymetric data ensures accurate depth calculations along entire route segments.
Tidal Considerations
Accounts for tidal variations that affect water depth, providing accurate routing for different arrival times.
Operational Benefits
Cost Reduction
Optimized routes reduce fuel consumption and voyage duration, directly impacting operational costs and profitability.
Enhanced Safety
Automatic avoidance of security zones, ice risk areas, and draft-restricted waters enhances crew safety and vessel protection.
Improved Punctuality
Accurate time calculations and optimized routing improve voyage reliability and on-time performance.
Regulatory Compliance
Automatic compliance with environmental restrictions and security zone requirements reduces regulatory risk.
Strategic Flexibility
Via point selection enables strategic routing that meets commercial requirements while maintaining efficiency.
Data-Driven Decisions
Precise distance and time calculations provide the data foundation for informed chartering and operational decisions.
Platform Integration
Glomaris integrates seamlessly with Burmester & Vogel's broader product suite, including BV Laytime, SAILFAST, and PortIQ, providing end-to-end visibility from voyage planning through demurrage settlement.
Route calculations from Glomaris feed directly into laytime planning and demurrage analysis, ensuring that voyage distances and transit times are accurately reflected in commercial calculations. This integration creates a comprehensive maritime operations platform that spans from initial voyage planning to final demurrage settlement.
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