Εvo News installation on Euronav vessels using custom made solutions

Euronav was in need of a free Internet crew welfare service for its fleet, in order to provide an alternative to its crew that would not require them to use their paid crew internet cards. In addition, they wanted to change the news distribution process, as by that time all news were sent by email allowing only a small number of articles from limited, specific sources to be received.

Further to our client’s request we have put our development team to work and came up with our maritime RSS solution “Evo News”. The crew welfare service service offered the following capabilities:

• 1. To send daily a vast number of compressed articles and news from different countries and languages as they are sent via links/RSS of local sites of the crew
• 2. To limit the internet usage of the service to only a few MB, as more than 150 complete articles (with pictures) or more than 1000 articles (text only) can be send to any vessel with only one MB
• 3. To choose the articles delivered to each vessel by crew nationality (i.e. Philippine Greek, Russian, Indian, Crew etc.) giving a customizable option to Euronav
• 4. To select the articles, rss-links, frequency, country, category and even size (articles with or without pictures)
• 5. To view articles on the vessel’s internal network allowing the crew to use their own devices (BYOD, laptop, smartphone, crew’s pc etc.)

Our partnership with EuroNav resulted in:

• 1. Installations on the entire Euronav fleet 50+ vessels as Evo News installation was successfully completed remotely within a week since our demo testing
• 2. Sending more than 2.000.000 articles monthly to the fleet and more than 40.000 articles monthly per vessel
• 3. Decreasing significantly the consumption of data needed
• 4. Accessing offline all articles/news