Crew and Worker Welfare

The Universal Card™ prepaid solution offers users a convenient way to stay in touch with friends and family and makes managing satellite communications simple.

Features

• Facilitates prepaid: crew or team members can make prepaid private calls, send prepaid emails, send SMS messages and access the web in certain scenarios
• Improved crew morale: complete cost control over private voice calling with minimal administration and at no additional cost
• Separate networks: separate private from corporate telephony to ensure no private voice calling on your monthly airtime invoice
• Affordable rates: enable your crew to call home at competitive rates
• Online management: order, activate, recharge and monitor your cards in Universal Card Manager

In those times where working in remote area is more and more difficult, Worker Welfare solutions will help you recruit and keep the best staff.

• Flexible business models: we can re-use your existing infrastructure to reduce costs or deliver end-to-end, fully managed solutions
• Video on Demand (VoD): video catalog updated every month with latest release from Hollywood and other partners
• Access to news: 7000 newspaper from 120 countries
• Internet prepaid voucher with easy online payment and reload
• Recreational internet access for remote workers with a secured Wi-Fi network or a Point-to-Point link

XChange WIFI & Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is an innovative and cost-effective communication solution simplifying the use of personal devices at sea.

• Fully preconfigured with XChange
• Quick and easy to deploy hardware
• Fleet wide roll out is quick and easy via our free Voice and Data apps and user self-registration

Packaged with XChange WiFi hardware, our plug & play solution provides optimal access to the XChange environment.
Relying on carefully selected hardware and specially developed software, the option offers IT managers all benefits of XChange: access control, prepaid accounting, multiple voice lines, etc. in addition to this feature.

Crew Internet Cafe
Furthermore, besides the use of personal devices, XChange can be used to enable an Internet Café environment onboard your vessel. Crew can access the internet via central crew computers onboard and browse the internet in a controlled way.

XChange Media can bring crew together in their social time in a communal environment that further fosters good teamwork and morale, by delivering news, reports, sports bulletins and entertainment magazines to crew on board.

Features​

• Compatibility: compatible with all major smart-devices, PCs, laptops, as well as communal televisions via a set-top-box
• Multilingual: multiple language options with new content added regularly
• Managed from shore: activated within a few clicks
• No fuss: delivered at no extra airtime cost and without any impact on VSAT allowance or speed
• Affordable: XChange Media comes with affordable program packages which can be activated online
• Easy Activation: once activated, the content can be shared with all crew members at no extra cost for them, as no internet connection is needed to use the service and no extra log-in or password
• Fully integrated into XChange: available on the service delivery platform with no additional hardware required
• Optional extras: set-top-box fully preconfigured for XChange Media

Vessel operators on shore want to stay up to date with how connectivity is used on board. They want to know how much traffic crew generates compared to business usage, which connectivity devices are utilised, who the top users are and how this picture compares to previous months.

They need to understand which crew member received how much credit in order to make the proper payroll calculations.

Monthly XChange Usage Reports and XChange Credit Reports deliver numerous benefits and efficiency-gains:

• Up-to-date insight into airtime consumption patterns
• Eliminate labour-intensive manual data extraction and aggregation
• Facilitate re-billing credit purchases to crew
• Monitor usage, compare with data from previous months and detect anomalies/mistakes
• Offer optional effort-free and reliable scheduled delivery by email

The renowned Ocean Technologies Learning platform, powered by Marlink, provides the ideal, cost-efficient solution for training, assessing and monitoring seafarers’ careers, while managing the service over the air.

It seamlessly enables crew members at sea to get the latest safety training in accordance with the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW).

• Digital Training Modules: monthly and quarterly module updates are transferred over the air whenever available, ensuring full compliance with regulations
• Certification Real-time Status: automatic transfer of crew information between shore and vessels provides the Human Resources or Crewing department with real-time management of staff profiles and certifications
• Managed Training Software: Ocean Learning Platform combined with XChange, enables an automatic import of updates into the training content catalogue removing the need for human intervention
• Enhanced Cyber-security: content is securely transferred to vessels without need for an open Internet connection for the CBT application to operate, thus reducing unnecessary bandwidth consumption and related cyber risk
• VSAT Optimised: data is automatically transmitted over Marlink Sealink VSAT, lowering the impact on operational and crew data usage
• Dedicated device removed: the e-Learning application is hosted on Marlink’s integrated onboard platform, eliminating the need for additional hardware. Software updates are automatic and require no additional airtime

In partnership with Ocean Technology.