August 2021 Release Notes

8-30-2021

Financials

Previously, a rounding issue in bunker accounting for TCTO voyages could be encountered when the setting, CFGAllocateBunkersToVoy, was enabled. This issue has been resolved.

Bug EN-38426

8-30-2021

Financials

There was a bug in IMOS when "For Owner's" bunker amount was invoiced incorrectly if bunker breakdown was specified, which resulted in lingering accruals. The bug has been fixed.

Bug EN-37382

8-30-2021

Chartering

The deviation estimate P&L now correctly categorizes cargo expense values as Cargo Expenses rather than as Port Expenses.

Bug EN-37333

8-30-2021

Chartering

The logic governing contract mirroring when CFGEnableContractMirroring is enabled has been altered such that mirrored contracts are prevented from being created when two internal companies with the same short name are used for the Counterparty and Company fields on contracts where mirroring is possible.

Story EN-36043

8-30-2021

Bunker Management

Previously, when manually overriding an estimated bunker ROB in voyages and estimates, the given fuel would no longer be used as a backup fuel for the given leg. Now, overriding an estimated bunker ROB for a backup fuel type assumes that the fuel should continue to act as a backup type and backup consumption is included in the manually-specified ROB.

Bug EN-34450

8-27-2021

Veslink Voyage Reporting

Resolved an issue where custom Delay/Off-Hire forms made in Veslink Form Designer did not display the proper values in the Delay Reasons dropdown when first opening a form. Note that this requires re-saving the form in Form Designer to take effect.

Bug EN-37891

8-27-2021

Financials

Other Revenue/Expenses invoices in non-base currency used different method of calculating total invoice amount in base currency than the financials invoice, thus sometimes resulting in an error when posting such invoice. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-37625

8-27-2021

Operations

Allows users to add fuel types to RELT voyages if CFGSustainability is enabled. Also allows users to add fuel types to completed voyages.

Bug EN-37350

8-27-2021

Financials

The issue where Time charter off-hire commission amounts which were already invoiced were displayed again to be invoiced has been fixed. This used to happen when incremental TC invoices were made including off hire in the contract.

Bug EN-37196

8-27-2021

Security & User Mgmt

Some built-in financial reports did not properly adhere to object access rights configured for a user. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-33496

8-27-2021

Financials

The likelihood of having an extra attachment inadvertently displayed for invoices has been fixed.

Bug EN-33403

8-26-2021

Distances & Maps

Route added between Seneffe and Antwerp

Bug EN-38544

8-26-2021

Distances & Maps

New port added: South Van Phong (Vietnam)

Story EN-38516

8-26-2021

Operations

Shuttle Tanker is now available as a Pricing and Advanced Pricing option for COAs and their liftings.

Story EN-36464

8-26-2021

Veslink Voyage Reporting

Now, Veslink Security - Last login date will be sorted from oldest to newest and vise versa

Bug EN-34014

k8s-8-25-2021

Trade Hub

Weather overlay now appears at the bottom center of Market-Positions page, and no longer overlaps with the Vessel & Tonnage Count overlay

Bug EN-38113

k8s-8-25-2021

Trade Hub VIP Only

When selecting a vessel in the Trade Hub - Market Insights page, the vessel pane now always opens with the Overview tab selected.

Story EN-38110

k8s-8-25-2021

Trade Hub

Vessel speed is now shown when selecting a vessel's historical position in Trade Hub Market Insights.

Story EN-38109

k8s-8-25-2021

Trade Hub

When no SPOT prices are available for today's date, Trade Hub Action Cargoes will now use recent SPOT prices to fetch today's market price for cargoes in addition to forward rates.

Bug EN-37992

8-24-2021

Distances & Maps

Corrected issue preventing routing to port Yangzhou (China)

Bug EN-38518

8-24-2021

Chartering VIP Only

When the config flag CFGEnableVoyestCustomItinGrid is enabled and the IMOS schema updated to version 339 or later, a new "Custom" tab is available in the VIP estimate Itinerary field. The grid in this tab includes all columns available in the "Charterer" tab as well as a few additional columns from other tabs.

This grid is customizable: columns can be pinned to either the left or right side (by dragging to the side and holding for two seconds, then dropping), resized, hidden, and re-ordered. The current column state can be saved by opening the column header menu and clicking "Save View". Only one view can be saved per-user, and this view is applied to the Custom tab in all estimates for that user. Clicking "Clear View" in the column header menu will reset the view to default.

The custom tab is the default selected tab when opening an estimate if this flag is set.

Story EN-38402

8-24-2021

Messaging Service

Previously, a successful inbound vessel XML would trigger only vesselExportFull and not vesselExport. Now, a successful inbound vessel XML will trigger vesselExportFull and vesselExport, if the configuration for both is set up.

Bug EN-37898

8-24-2021

Operations

Sustainability Panel data now automatically updates when new data is entered is entered on the voyage or within the panel, and when switching between voyages. Card with "N/A" value has also been removed.

Bug EN-37348

8-24-2021

Financials

After this fix, address commission does not disappear on a refresh for Freight Invoices.

Bug EN-34013

8-23-2021

Veslink Voyage Reporting

Improved performance when approving a Veslink Cargo Handling form when CFGDefaultDischargeBLInfo is enabled, also fixes an approval error when there are numerous cargoes being imported

Bug EN-37537

8-23-2021

Financials

With this fix, Final Freight Statement is not showing the original address commission and it is posting the correct total amount.

Bug EN-36790

8-23-2021

Trading

Expanded the functionality of CFGLinkBunkerPurchase to include bunker purchases that are for multiple fuel types. When this flag is enabled and CFGLinkBunkerPurchaseTradesByFuelType is also enabled, user will be able to select fuel type to be linked and see a fuel type as well as the trade ID in the linked trades grid when the trade type being linked is Bunker Purchase.

Story EN-34871

8-20-2021

Financials

The "Payment Batch No." field in Transaction Data Entry form can now be clicked on to open available payment batches - even when the field is empty.

Story EN-37502

8-19-2021

Distances & Maps

2 new ports added: Villefranche-sur-Saone and Salaise-sur-Sanne (France)

Story EN-38476

8-19-2021

Distances & Maps

New port added: Jiangdu (China)

Story EN-38427

8-19-2021

Scheduling

The Scheduling and Cargo Book workspaces now automatically refresh the Optimizer Solution panel for all users currently viewing the same program when one user modifies the solution.

Bug EN-38418

8-19-2021

Distances & Maps

Updated routing near Tup Enseada

Bug EN-38409

8-19-2021

Distances & Maps

Updated routing between Gullfaks and Statfjord (Norway)

Bug EN-38392

8-19-2021

Chartering

Remittance Bank information can now be specified on Bareboat Contracts.

Story EN-38345

8-19-2021

Financials

Previously, Spot Out FINV invoice XML did not include the minimum quantity of the cargo nor the BL quantity of the cargo. This issue has been fixed.

Bug EN-33821

8-19-2021

Veslink Voyage Reporting

In Veslink Offline Forms, the "Last Submitted" link will now be form and vessel specific.

Story EN-31805

8-18-2021

Chartering

Added a mechanism assign Fixture No. sequentially, thus removing the yearly limit of 9999 Voyage Fixtures per year imposed by the default numbering scheme. With CFGFixtureNoFormat set to "S", Fixture No. will start from "10000000" and will be numbered sequentially without including year.

Bug EN-38462

8-18-2021

Financials

With this fix, when CFGAutoGenerateFreightComms flag is on, and when a FINV invoice is reversed, the related FCOM invoice refers to the Freight Commission Invoice in InvoiceNo and Memo fields.

Bug EN-37466

8-18-2021

Analytics

Added "Remarks" to Bareboat Contracts table in Report Designer.

Story EN-36336

8-17-2021

Financials

Checkbox "Apply Bunker Consumption to Period" mistakenly correlated with "Voyage Completion"/"Date" radio button -- this has been fixed.

Bug EN-37418

8-16-2021

Veslink Voyage Reporting

Validate on email addresses when sending Voyage Instructions emails has been added

Bug EN-37884

8-13-2021

Chartering

Fixed a bug in estimate fixture save that prevented portcarevents to be saved.

Bug EN-38383

8-13-2021

Distances & Maps

Time zone correct to FI for 6 Finnish ports

Story EN-38381

8-13-2021

Analytics

Module Description field has been added to the Module Access table in Report Designer.

Story EN-37170

8-13-2021

Chartering

When CFGShowLoadQuantityInEstColumn is enabled, the estimate column view will display the total load quantity. The existing field "Quantity/Unit" has been renamed to "CP Quantity/Unit".

Story EN-36518

8-13-2021

Chartering

Added config flag CFGIncludeXPDaysOnCargoImport, which controls whether or not XP Days as specified on a cargo contract's itinerary should be included when importing a cargo to Voyage Estimator or Voyage Manager.

Bug EN-29716

8-12-2021

Datalake

Previously, some Datalake Clients in the European Region were having issues where their jobs would get stuck in the 'Pending' state. Now, no job should ever remain in the 'Pending' state for more than 1 minute.

Story EN-38326

8-12-2021

Chartering

Off hire P&L impact from linked voyages is now taken into account in the deviation estimate P&L.

Bug EN-37997

8-12-2021

Distances & Maps

New region: South Vietnam (Disabled by Default)

Story EN-36958

8-11-2021

Scheduling

Resolved an issue where the Estimate ID column in the Scheduling and Cargo Book workspaces sometimes did not properly refresh

Bug EN-38067

8-11-2021

Operations

A Cargo Qty column has been added to the Voyage Manager's Additional Emissions Data form, to record carried cargo quantities not otherwise recorded in the voyage itinerary. Values entered in the new column will contribute to the total cargo quantity displayed in the Sustainability side panel.

This feature requires IMOS database schema version 33.6 or higher.

Story EN-37874

8-11-2021

Financials

Added a Cargo ID column to the Freight Invoice form's Freight Calculation grid that will pull in the ID of the Cargo that matches that line item. If there are more than one cargoes that match that line item, then the column will be left blank for that row.

Story EN-37479

8-11-2021

Chartering

Three new options were added to the Inspection column on the Tank Information form:
- Prior to Arrival (Wall Wash)
- Upon Arrival (Wall Wash)
- Upon Arrival (Physical)
The option of Upon Arrival is no longer available, but any previously saved Upon Arrival selections will still load as Upon Arrival.

The option Pending was added to the Approval column on the Tank Information form.

Story EN-37471

8-11-2021

Chartering

Adds a Coating column to the Tank Information table for a booking. The column is populated with data from the Vessel Stowage tables. Requires IMOS database schema version 33.7 or higher.

Story EN-36563

8-10-2021

Financials

Previously, spot voyage freight invoice data was displayed with the wrong payable/receivable indicator in the Final Freight Statements report. This has been resolved.

Bug EN-38286

8-10-2021

Chartering

Fixed a bug that could prevent list bulk actions from executing when filtering on user-defined-fields.

Bug EN-38285

8-10-2021

Distances & Maps

New port added: Drag (Norway)

Story EN-38284

8-10-2021

P&L & Accruals

Previously, refreshing the Voyage P&L when using a comparison snapshot could result in an incorrect display of data. This issue has been resolved.

Bug EN-37323

8-9-2021

Berth Scheduling

Now, Berth schedule Berth column menu will Include Collapse All to minimize all berth activity.

Story EN-38311

8-9-2021

Chartering

Fixed an issue where Unpriced Elements would not be included in TC Revision History.

Bug EN-37794

8-9-2021

Financials VIP Only

Laytime Calculation Setup for chemical shipments would commonly appear empty when valid bookings exists. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-32193

k8s-8-6-2021

Trade Hub

Vessel fleets no longer appear in the Vessel Types dropdown within Trade Hub Market Insights.

Bug EN-38045

k8s-8-6-2021

Trade Hub

An issue related to filtering the Internal Company in Trade Hub has been fixed.

Bug EN-36690

8-6-2021

Financials

Fixed a bug where bulk list actions sometimes would not execute.

Bug EN-38254

8-6-2021

Distances & Maps

New port added: STS Point Lisas (Trinidad and Tobago)

Story EN-38252

8-6-2021

Scheduling

Now, VIP list column configuration panels will display their lists of columns in alphabetical order.

Bug EN-38233

8-6-2021

Distances & Maps

New port added: 8N Guard RV Point

Story EN-38231

8-6-2021

Distances & Maps

New port added: Binzhou (China)

Story EN-38226

8-6-2021

Fleet Map VIP Only

Hover cards in Fleet Map did not display vessel information when at port.

When hovering over a vessel at port, the user is now able to see the latest reported information about both vessel and port.

Bug EN-37744

8-6-2021

Financials

Previously, bad debt items would show up in the "Create Voyage Invoices" in VIP. Since bad debt items cannot be invoiced, these items are now excluded from the invoice list.

Story EN-37166

8-6-2021

Financials

This fix applies to PDA and FDA invoices and with this fix, when we post an invoice (PDA or FDA), an additional line for rounding error adjustment will be created and the total base amount would become 0.

Bug EN-36840

8-6-2021

Financials

With this fix, the month filter on the Monthly Accruals Summary window will be respected and it will display correct results.

Bug EN-30942

8-5-2021

Analytics

Previously, there were not many options to see Agent Appointment information in Report Designer. Now, the Agent Appointments form has been added and can help track Agent Data in Report Designer.

Story EN-37990

8-5-2021

Financials

Previously, a special freight invoice would take an incorrect commission rate when there were multiple cargos on a voyage for the same customer with different commission rates. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-32178

8-4-2021

Financials

Previously, the Create Voyage Invoice List was showing a incorrect outstanding balance for cargoes with dead freight within a booking. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-35520

8-4-2021

Financials

"Chtr Specialist" column in some financials lists was not showing correct values for invoices associated with TCO contracts (both linked to voyages and voyage-less). In addition, same issue existed in Create Bunker Invoices and Demurrage Timebar Tasks lists. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-30784

8-3-2021-r2

Financials

Previously, items that were filtered out of some lists were still included by bulk selection via the Action column. Now, list objects will not be selected unless they appear in the current view.

Bug EN-38230

8-3-2021

Veslink Voyage Reporting

Now the email body for Veslink forms will read "Good Day" instead of "Dear Sir."

Story EN-38054

8-2-2021-r2

Platform API

Added RefNo column back to Interface Message List

Bug EN-38206

8-2-2021-r2

Messaging Service

Our MarketDataImport.xsd schema for validating Market Data imports into VIP was overly strict. This has been fixed.

Bug EN-37087

8-2-2021-r2

Operations

When CFGAutoCalcPortExpenses is enabled, port expenses are no longer estimated for ports with 'C', 'T', or 'W', or empty port functions.

Bug EN-37025

k8s-8-2-2021

Platform API

Previously, the DeleteInvoice API call on the Focus API had inconsistent response messages. Now, the API will deliver a consistent "SUCCESS" message upon success.

Story EN-37886

k8s-8-2-2021

Trade Hub

Labels on the Trade Hub Market Insights map are now more visible when map is in Satellite mode.

Bug EN-36199

k8s-8-2-2021

Trade Hub

Vessel position symbols on the Trade Hub Market Insights map are now color coded to give more information about the vessels. Unemployed vessels are now green on the map, and employed vessels are yellow. In addition, laden vessels are darker shades of color than ballast vessels.

Story EN-32975

8-2-2021

Scheduling

Previously, an issue caused the Cargo Status color coding to disappear when changing the view from sorted to unsorted in the Cargo Book grid. This issue has been resolved.

Bug EN-38038

8-2-2021

Chartering

Fixed an issue where it was possible to overwrite the counterparty information on an invoiced freight contract by assigning a new COA No., breaking the link between a Freight Invoice and its corresponding contract.

Bug EN-30527