LR offers shipping fleet certification data on the move with new app

TIN news:    Lloyd’s Register has created a mobile app using Oracle's software platform to provide its surveyors and customers with access to ship certification data on the move.

The 254-year old marine engineering and risk management firm provides a range of services including conducting surveyor assessments to maintain standards of shipping fleets.

Last year, Lloyd's Register planned development of the app on Oracle's Mobile Application Framework platform. This was aimed at offering customers the ability to book assessments, monitor and check the status of surveys, browse classification data and create a list of their ‘favourite’ vessels for quicker access via mobile devices. it is also used its by surveyor staff to provide access to data while conducting assessments.

"In the case of surveyors, if they have been sent out to a vessel they can only access that data if they have a network access point," said Richard Childe, Lloyd's Register Oracle database administrator.

"Now they can access this data when they are on a ship if they have got a signal, which just makes it a lot easier for them to do their job."