Samos Steamship enhances crew welfare with Evo News throughout the entire fleet

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Samos Steamship enhances crew welfare with Evo News throughout the entire fleet

Samos Steamship is a ship management company operating a mixed fleet of tankers and bulk carriers. Samos manages a fleet of 3.0 million tons of an average age of 7 years. With over 140 years of experience, Samos Steamship offers reliable sea transport, combining expertise, flexibility and innovation.

Evo News keeps Seafarers happy onboard with daily news, games and the latest updates from Euro 2021 and Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games

Samos Steamship, a reputable shipping company with over 140 years of experience in shipping, has chosen to deploy Evo News, a daily e-newspaper and crew welfare platform throughout its modern fleet.

Day to day operations onboard the ship can be very challenging and at the end of the day the seafarers want to communicate with their family, be informed about news from their country, global events as well as to be entertained and maintain their mental well-being during their free time.

Being Creative with Evo News

With recent major athletics events taking place, such as the Euro 2021 football championship and the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games, Samos took advantage of Evo News’ capabilities by serving its seafarers with live and free illustrated updates regarding football matches results as well as the athletic achievements of their countrymen and countrywomen!

In addition, by activating Evo News’ new features, Samos Steamship now offers access to a series of video games that the seafarers can play during their free time, at no charge and without being connected to the internet!

Evo News offers the ability to:

Send thousands of compressed news articles to vessels every day, while consuming only a few MB. ‘more than 150 complete articles per 1MB of data
Read articles locally on the vessel (with no additional data consumption) through a user-friendly customizable web interface
Choose the articles delivered to each vessel by crew nationality. Unlimited languages for all your crew members. (i.e Greek, Indian, Filipino, Russian etc)
Experience a trouble-free operation, while providing the crew with an ‘always-online’ news feed
Adjust the articles, links, frequency, country, category and even size. (send articles with or without images)
View articles on the vessel’s internal network by crew using their own devices. (BYOD / laptop, smartphones, crew PC, etc)
Create your ‘company’ custom news and training sessions for the crew
Deploy installations seamlessly on vessels, with ready-made packages and scripts many different computer operating systems and versions
Add video in your feeds
Add games for your crew
New, User Friendly Control Panel
Connect your device – Smartphone, tablet or PCs