December 01, 2025

CFM Updates - November 2025

This month we added 19 new features and 38 enhancements to CFM. We present our highlights of November.

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We are continuously upgrading Cloud Fleet Manager, adding new functionality, enhancements and improving the overall usability. With this article, we would like to give you a brief overview of some of the greater edits to the system. For a comprehensive overview of all changes, you can visit the "What's New" report in Cloud Fleet Manager at any time to see what exactly happened in each of our modules.

New features and enhancements

CFM Bunker

CFM Bunker offers you full transparency regarding your bunker. You can easily document the amount and type of bunker as well as the location of bunkering. Add attachments, such as bunker delivery notes at your convenience. Additionally, you have the option to document and administrate bunker samples.

  • Support for Veracity's transition to full BDN-based reporting has been expanded. Initial ROB Statements can now be managed directly within ShipClient, automatically generating and updating the required bunker reports while supporting the new reporting workflow.

CFM Crewing

CFM Crewing is your one-stop solution to handle all crew-related tasks centrally and in an intuitive way. From master data management of seafarers, planning the crews on board as well as their relief, the management of working and rest hours of the crew up to managing payrolls, everything can be done in one single solution.

  • A new Seafarer Compliance Report provides a complete overview of seafarers' document information, making it easier to share accurate compliance data with external stakeholders.
  • Payment Transfers now support MT101 SWIFT exports for automated bank file generation, including configurable payment settings and built-in validation to help identify export issues.
  • Seafarer Search has been enhanced with airport information, including new export fields and filtering options to simplify travel planning and identify missing data.
  • The Final Wages dashboard now highlights negative balances, making potential payroll issues easier to identify before processing.
  • Competencies and endorsements now include the issuing country, improving document management and enabling more accurate validation of flag state endorsements.
  • Payroll settings now allow organisations to extend the correction period beyond the default two months, providing greater flexibility when processing late wage scale changes.
  • Crew List and Planning now provide a dedicated Compliance view, giving users a clearer overview of document requirements and compliance issues across their crews.

CFM Employees

CFM Employees makes all staff information visible and accurate. Simply organise your staff within departments, define regular working days and hours, vacation entitlement, job description and contact details. Manage holidays, travels, and any other absence of your employees within a single view.

  • A new Employee List export provides a comprehensive overview of employee information, making it easier to review and share personnel data.

CFM Event Reporting

CFM Event Reporting lets you make the most of your data and gain real insights into the performance of your fleet by monitoring a wide variety of key figures. By monitoring reports about times of arrival and departure, the begin and end of sea passage (BOSP/EOSP), bunker consumptions, times of anchorage or lay-up as well as noon reports, CFM Event Reporting lets you see the big picture of your fleet – enabling you to conduct further analyses.

  • Event Reports now support MRV/DCS Offhire periods, helping organisations capture offhire activities more accurately for compliance reporting.
  • Finalised Event Reports now provide remaining-on-board values for individual BDNs, giving users greater visibility into fuel consumption and remaining quantities.

CFM Inspections & Audits

CFM Inspections & Audits lets you easily prepare and manage pending inspections. With extensive planning features and the option to create templates for your questionnaires, CFM Inspections & Audits makes sure that you are always best prepared for upcoming inspections and have a complete overview of all tasks.

  • ShipClient Inspection & Audit reports now support comments, enabling crews to collaborate more effectively while maintaining a clear record of discussions and decisions.

CFM MRV & IMO DCS

CFM MRV & IMO DCS enables you to easily record and analyse all key figures required to achieve compliance with both the EU MRV and IMO DCS regulations. The required data can be entered directly on board, all further calculations are carried out automatically in the system, you only have to forward the results.

  • Additional MRV off-hire report types are now available for dockings, technical failures and unchartered periods, supporting more accurate regulatory reporting.
  • Report Details now display remaining-on-board values for both standard and biofuels, allowing users to review fuel information without opening individual reports.

CFM Procedures

CFM Procedures enables you to send instructions to your vessels fast and easily, making sure that your fleet is up to date regarding e.g. safety instructions - achieving compliance with ease. Effortlessly send company policies and work instructions, or assign responsibilities aboard your ships.

  • A new global setting allows users to display only procedures relevant to their assigned vessels, helping teams focus on the information that matters most.

CFM Purchase

CFM Purchase provides you with all sections of the purchasing process at one point in an intelligently structured manner, gives you full control over your budgets and allows your suppliers to work directly with this information. Thanks to an intuitive dashboard that features the most relevant information and upcoming tasks, CFM Purchase always focuses on what is important and streamlines the complete purchasing workflow.

  • Invoice payment due dates can now be calculated automatically based on configured payment terms, reducing manual effort and improving consistency.
  • Unexpected expenses can now be marked individually or in bulk, making invoice processing more efficient.

CFM Templates

CFM Templates is the collection of all your templates. Hamper differences in layouts and simplify the understanding on both your customers’ and your side. We offer you all templates for the respective departments of your company. Whether employment contracts, order forms, voyage or time charter invoices, vacation requests or generic forms: With CFM Templates you are all geared up.

  • Invoice templates have been enhanced with approval information and additional budget details, providing more complete and consistent purchasing documentation.
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