Weathernews has launched a dedicated mobile application for its SeaNavigator platform, designed to provide real-time fleet visibility and accelerate decision-making for shore-based operations teams.
SeaNavigator Mobile, available for iOS and Android, provides real-time vessel position monitoring, Automatic Identification System (AIS)-based behavioural alerts, and a mobile workflow for receiving and confirming voyage plan notifications.
The company says that the system has been created to replace email and phone call processes traditionally relied upon by operations teams, offering an example of one documented case where a route change confirmation that previously required 24.5 hours was completed within 30 minutes using the application.
The application’s AIS-based alert system analyses vessel speed data at hourly intervals to automatically detect abnormal behaviour, such as slowdown alerts and drifting alerts where speeds fall below 0.5 knots for consecutive hours. These alerts incorporate anomaly filtering to eliminate false positives and are automatically suppressed within designated port or pilot areas.
When a voyage plan requires confirmation, Operations Managers receive a mobile notification showing the proposed options. Users can confirm or request revisions directly from the app, which tracks whether a notification is awaiting a response, confirmed, or informational.
“For years, the conversation about decision-making at sea has been dominated by the quality of the data going to the bridge. What we hear consistently from our customers is that the limiting factor is no longer the data itself – it is how quickly the people responsible for acting on it can communicate with each other,” said Craig West, CEO Europe at Weathernews.
“SeaNavigator Mobile is our answer to that, putting the operations team back at the centre of the decision chain rather than at the end of an email thread, and the early evidence is showing what becomes possible when the shore side can respond at the same speed as conditions are changing at sea.”
The mobile application has been developed alongside SeaNavigator for Master, a browser-based intelligent co-pilot for onboard navigation launched in December 2025. The conversational artificial intelligence (AI) uses probabilistic weather modelling to support Captains in route assessment and voyage planning.
Weathernews says that it plans to further expand the mobile application in the near future with push notification reminders for unanswered confirmations, automatic plan transmission upon approval, off-track alerts, and a function enabling operators to submit changes to destination, speed, and estimated time of arrival directly from the app.
