MeteoGroup FleetGuard · Routing is part of the picture, but your fleet management responsibilities extend much further, to maximizing the efficiency of your entire ocean-going fleet

MeteoGroup FleetGuard

The world’s most comprehensive SaaS fleet management system

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The fleet management challenge

Whether you are fleet operator or charter owner, you bear great responsibility for revenue, cost, and the safety of your crew. You don’t take those responsibilities lightly, and you know that sound weather-related decisions are essential to fulfilling them.

Routing is part of the picture, but your fleet management responsibilities extend much further, to maximizing the efficiency of your entire ocean-going fleet.

MeteoGroup FleetGuard helps you meet this challenge with the world’s most comprehensive SaaS fleet management system. Driven by a unique combination of meteorological and nautical expertise, MeteoGroup FleetGuard provides:• An actionable dashboard for operations managers• Deep insight for performance managers• Through a modern cloud portal

That’s why MeteoGroup FleetGuard empowers you to make better fleet performance decisions every day, day in day out, year after year.


Actionable dashboard for operatorsMeteoGroup FleetGuard brings together the overview, KPIs and alerts that operators and operations managers need in a simple but flexible UI. With FleetGuard, move easily from overview to detail, and take action – all within one integrated system.

Start your shift with instant access to the information you need most.

FleetGuard’s operator dashboard provides maps, KPIs and alerts that turn raw data into actionable intelligence. Make it your own with easy configuration for your fleet group and the information you care about most. Set filters and priorities that enable you to focus on your responsibilities.

By presenting timely summary information in one convenient dashboard, MeteoGroup FleetGuard makes you more efficient every day.

Don’t dig through paper reports and multiple applications.

MeteoGroup FleetGuard consolidates all of the different levels of operational information you need. Get an overview of your entire fleet, or just the group you’re responsible for. Then easily drill down to detail on individual ships that need your attention, and take action.

Say goodbye to checking today’s individual noon reports in mail or Excel. FleetGuard delivers them all in one view, allowing you to scan through and quickly drill down on problems and anomalies. Easily evaluate the route and weather conditions of any ongoing voyage. FleetGuard takes you from the fleet summary to individual detail and back with just a click.

Don’t be caught by surprise by the new European Monitor Report and Verify (MRV) regulations.

Starting January first, 2018, the new EU MRV Regulation requires all vessels that call at European Union ports as from January to monitor and report CO2 emissions on a per voyage basis, as well as emissions from associated transport work.

FleetGuard’s complete and certified MRV managed service capabilities gather, clean and validate the required data, filter ‘European’ voyages, and provide compliance reporting and evidence in government-approved format. Summarize the needed information by ship for any reporting period, and include all needed voyages and their details automatically.

FleetGuard keeps you compliant, without added paperwork headaches.

Easy to use operator dashboard instantly gives you relevant KPIs and alerts

Easy drill-down provides insight from fleet group to individual vessel detail

Complete MRV reporting ensures compliance with new European regulations


Deep insight for performance managersPerformance management requires being able to see the forest and the trees. MeteoGroup FleetGuard blends our weather and seafaring expertise with industry-leading analysis capabilities. Better still, it’s all presented with a level of clarity you won’t find anywhere else.

Now you can put your spreadsheets away. MeteoGroup FleetGuard’s performance KPI dashboard constantly displays the up-to-date performance for all your vessels. Those performance measurements are even calculated on normalized data to ensure comparability across different conditions. Visualize data in a wide range of tables, gauges and graphs; all fully customizable to show exactly the performance analysis and figures you use in your fleet optimization targets.FleetGuard integrates with third party noon reporting platforms and MeteoGroup’s own, fully customizable EasyNoon reporting to collect and analyze exactly the data that is relevant for your fleet. So, you can strip out parameters you don’t use, and eliminate the burden of double reporting.With FleetGuard, one KPI dashboard delivers all of the period-based performance insight you need.

Without true weather data, your vessel performance picture is cloudy. Changing weather conditions can mask performance issues, or create the appearance of problems that aren’t actually there. That’s why FleetGuard’s all-weather performance analysis automatically incorporates MeteoGroup’s industry-leading data and models. This goes beyond basic weather to include current factors, slip analysis, SOG, STW and more. With the effects of all confounding factors accounted for, your true performance picture becomes clear.

See the forest and the trees. MeteoGroup Fleetguard’s trend and benchmark analysis removes clutter and offers up cleaned-up data. That means you can easily select, filter and combine and compare to get just the insight you need on both individual vessel and full fleet performance over time.MeteoGroup’s performance analysis is guided by the company’s extensive nautical background. Experienced mariners, including master mariners, inform our analytics with more than 150 years of combined seafaring experience and extensive on-board knowledge of different vessel types. Nautical expertise ensures that ship models are accurate, noon data is double-checked, and analyzed data is re-checked again. That means with FleetGuard, you are always looking at correct data when you analyze long-term performance.

Performance KPI dashboard delivers period-based performance trends and figures

Automatic all-weather performance analysis incorporates true weather and current data

Vessel trend and benchmark analysis provides long-term insight


Delivered through a modern cloud portalSome clouds actually make your world brighter! Unlike fragmented local systems, MeteoGroup FleetGuard’s unified cloud application provides shared reality for your entire team – land and sea – around the globe. It’s a modern SaaS system that keeps your data secure in the cloud and accessible from any workstation. Yet FleetGuard is also customizable to meet the unique needs of your organization and of every role in it.

Fragmented systems erode the coordination and efficiency of your team. In contrast, FleetGuard helps your team, and ours, work as one. MeteoGroup Fleetguard breaks down these silos and integrates SPOS reports and FleetGuard and RouteGuard services in this unified cloud application, giving all of your users one place to go and one shared reality from which to manage your fleet. With FleetGuard, you see exactly what our team does. All actions, changes and inserts are traceable. All communication between the teams and with the vessel is logged and always accessible. Shared reality extends beyond the FleetGuard portal. You can also use FleetGuard’s data and analysis to enhance your existing systems. All your data, enriched with our analysis and the functionality of the FleetGuard portal, is available via our secured API. So, you can integrate the power of FleetGuard into your in-house tools and platforms. With FleetGuard, you get one shared reality and one team.

Don’t trust your vessels and people to a hard disk. MeteoGroup FleetGuard is a modern SaaS system that keeps your vital data secure in the cloud. So there’s no local application to install and no extra hardware to install or maintain. Authorized users can access FleetGuard from any workstation, anytime, anywhere in the world.

Your business is unique, so don’t settle for a one-size-fits-all solution. MeteoGroup FleetGuard comes with powerful industry capabilities based on our extensive shipping experience. Yet it is completely configurable to meet the specific needs of your organization, and each job role in it. Get started quickly with pre-configured templates for Operations, Performance Manager, Charter operators, and other key roles. Then make it your own with extensive KPIs and capabilities you can tailor to you. Furthermore, our support team is dedicated to help you customize FleetGuard to exactly fit your business, role, and responsibilities. FleetGuard lets you start with industry-leading functionality, and then make it your own.

Unified cloud application provides shared reality for your entire team

SaaS system keeps your data secure in the cloud and accessible from any workstation

Customizable to meet the needs of every role in your organization


MeteoGroup ShippingMeteoGroup Shipping is the best-in-class routing solution from the global weather authority. The solution includes:

SPOS SPOS9 is the ultimate voyage optimization tool for ocean-going vessels. MeteoGroup’s on-board ship routing solution consists of a desktop software package that provides the essential information for making weather-dependent decisions with ease and confidence. SPOS is specifically designed to allow the captain and crew of any vessel to adjust route calculations, whether at port or during transit. Its access to Nautical MeteoBase (NMB), our in-house model specially adapted for marine forecasts, its accounting for SEEMP related measures, and its comprehensive analysis of weather, ocean currents, speed curves, fuel curves and the vessel’s specific characteristics make it easy to select the most favourable route for transit. SPOS9 is also fully integrated with the FleetGuard and RouteGuard services.

FleetGuard APIs Our dedicated, secured APIs allow third parties to flawlessly integrate with our systems and services. Our automated micro-services create the optimal voyage route, check for weather alerts, or design necessary adjustments while allowing all ERP and performance suppliers/owners to access our state-of-the-art database and products.

RouteGuard RouteGuard is the definitive shore-based ship routing and performance analysis service for ocean going fleets. Access to our accurate data, combined nautical and meteorological expertise, and Nautical MeteoBase, our in-house model specially adapted for marine forecasts, will provide your ships with optimum routing information for any voyage. RouteGuard will help your ships to reduce sailing time, therefore improving sustainability and limiting environmental impact while allowing you to monitor their route and performance in real time through the FleetGuard web platform. RouteGuard also makes it easy to generate a post-voyage performance analysis that will help you to detect underperformance and adjust accordingly in future voyages.

FleetGuard FleetGuard is the world’s most comprehensive SaaS fleet management solution. Driven by a unique combination of meteorological and nautical expertise, MeteoGroup FleetGuard provides an actionable dashboard for operations managers and deep insight for performance managers, all delivered through a modern cloud portal.

AboutMeteoGroupMeteoGroup, the global weather authority, combines accurate science with advanced technology and local expertise with global reach. MeteoGroup is trusted by hundreds of government agencies, thousands of companies and millions of consumers. MeteoGroup is ISO 9001 and BS OSHAS 18001 quality certified. Learn more about how our solutions can benefit you at www.meteogroup.com.

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MeteoGroup FleetGuard · Routing is part of the picture, but your fleet management responsibilities extend much further, to maximizing the efficiency of your entire ocean-going fleet