Relevant parties to a voyage are notified through SeaSWIM of a relevant voyage, and can request and gain access to the information through SeaSWIM. Access is controlled by the information owner. This means that there will be a possibility to set up subscriptions also for the shipping company to receive information about its voyage through SeaSWIM (e.g. arrival to port, SoF in a port). For a shipping company this would mean easier overview over all information form supporting actors, involved in the ships voyage, and through that also easier integration with different actors, which is very hard for shipping companies working in a many-to-many environment (e.g. Tramp shipping, where shipping company dealing with many ship-agents, in ports where they not necessarily have visited before).

Shipping-ERP�s providing the Voyage-object via Swim-connectors, identified via Unique Voyage ID, with targeted (point-to-point) distribution of the access-rights. This will be implemented by a shipping company connecting its different ERP-systems to SeaSwim through the SeaSwim connectors. This means that the system can distribute parts of the information to be available for other actors, which the information owner have granted access, for automatically receive in their systems through similar SeaSwim connectors. For a shipping company, regardless if the systems are developed and maintained internally, or through service providers, the crewing system, the Chartering and operations system, the cargo planning system, the Voyage planning system (ECDIS) can be connected through SeaSwim connectors to be able to publish, and subscribe for information which is tagged with a unique voyage ID. This means also that the Voyage Information Service can be distributed over several ERP-systems in a shipping company.

UVID can be used for publishing information & discovery in SeaSwim for identifying Swim nodes with have information about the voyage (subscription).

E.g. subscription for all voyages to my port. Benefits for the actors involved in the voyage are easier information retrieval. FOr system providers the UVID will mean that all information can be exchange between all other systems, and information precision can be obtained (information means the same in different systems).

Routes are distributed through common communication infrastructure by Route Exchange Format. With the introduction of SeaSwim the routes can be distributed by other means than by AIS, thus leading to new possibilities of providing services from remote location. The need to be in VHF range for providing services will be obsolete.

In this stage, the SeaSwim Identity catalogue has been used for some years, and is well implemented in the different systems used by the shipping-actors. In SeaSwim, the Access management service is implemented, and by that, also in the SwimConnector. The connection the different service providers and actors have to the SeaSwim service infrastructure. This gives a possibility to integrate the actual nomination-process performed in the shipping company�s commercial department with access-rights to the information that will be publisised throughout the voyage, to the nominated actor. What information that is to be available for the nominated party, is decided by the information owner (the shipping company) by assigning templates or profiles to the actor-type. When an actor is nominated to a certain voyage (a ship-agent in a specific port, or a port), these actors (as defined in the Identity register) can automatically obtain relevant information (according to the profile) through its SeaSwim connector (integration interface to SeaSwim). The benefit for the shipowner at this stage is that they can easily, with one nomination-process within their own tools or systems, secure that the right receiver gets the right information about the voyage whenever that piece of information is updated. Several time-consuming processes on the office and at sea can now gradually be radically simplified. The benefit for the Shipping ERP-systems provider (internal or through service provider) is that a generic, global and secure way of giving information access to the nominated collaborators of the shipping company, can be made in a standardised and globally accepted manner.

With auto nomination turned ON it is possible for voyage planner system to automatically give access to ports, authorities etc. to parts of the voyage information when appointing collaborators in the voyage, in ordinary planning system.

The nautical information includes but is not limited to MSP, MSI, NtM Pilot Books. There are no international standards for this type of digitised information (TBC). Of these, MSP and MSI are the ones that are necessary to be able to broadcast dynamically. The other ones are more static and will be included when making voyage and route planning.

SeaSwim functionality provides feedback to publisher of who have received which information. Used in Area-management for MSI-publisher to verify that relevant ships have taken part of vital information.

As the volume of traffic and other maritime activities increases congestion is becoming a problem problem in more areas e.g. canals, straits and port entrances. By gathering statistics on plans and actual occurences, removing all business sensitive information and make it available for third-party route planning it will be easier to see e.g. times or areas where problems with congestion is likely to occur. The statistics can also be used for planning of new safety measures like VTS, aids to navigation or resource planning of operators.