April 01, 2026

CFM Updates - March 2026

This month we added 9 new features and 52 enhancements to CFM. We present our highlights of March.

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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 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.

  • Administrators can now choose whether Crew Portal payslips are available as PDF, Excel or both, providing greater flexibility for payroll distribution.
  • Seafarer summaries now distinguish clearly between promotions and demotions using colour-coded indicators, making career progression and planned rank changes easier to review at a glance.
  • A new payroll setting allows organisations to finalise payroll and payments for the following month when sign-off takes place on the first day, supporting more flexible payroll processing.
  • Custom colour coding can now be applied to seafarer statuses, making crew overviews easier to interpret and align with company preferences.
  • Planned crew assignments can now be imported directly from Radiant Fleet, helping keep upcoming crew plans synchronised between both systems.
  • Updated wage scales are now applied automatically to seafarers on sick leave, helping ensure payroll remains accurate during periods of medical absence.
  • Permanent Contracts now display the applicable wage version and its effective date directly on the overview card, giving users quicker visibility without needing to open the contract details.
  • A new MLC Shipowner company role is now available for crew assignments and vessel particulars and can be included in employment contract and particulars exports, supporting MLC-related workflows.
  • Users can now receive notifications when planned crew assignments become obsolete because an overlapping assignment for the same seafarer has been set to On Board, helping keep crew plans up to date.
  • ShipClient payroll balances now distinguish clearly between consumed salary, brought-forward amounts and carried-forward amounts, improving transparency when reviewing monthly balances.
  • The CFM Crewing E-Wallet is now integrated with ShipMoney, expanding the available options for digital crew payments.
  • Kadmos is now available as an E-Wallet provider for seafarer payment accounts. Dedicated integration settings allow organisations to configure payout-reference templates, while a new Kadmos payment export provides payout references, seafarer IDs, currencies and amounts in CSV format. Supported currencies are limited to EUR, GBP and USD, and payout exports now handle special characters in reference fields to support error-free processing.
  • When embarking a seafarer, overlapping planned assignments can now be identified and deleted automatically, reducing manual planning adjustments and helping keep assignment records accurate.

CFM Disturbance Report

CFM Disturbance Report lets your crew easily create detailed, standardised service requests that can be directly assigned to the person responsible and which will then appear automatically within their dashboard. You can follow-up all service requests in a Kanban view, which gives you a full transparency an all pending requests and their individual status.

  • Disturbance Reports now support an optional Root Cause classification. Root-cause information is available when creating, editing and closing reports and is also included in exports, helping organisations strengthen compliance reporting and incident analysis.

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.

  • ShipClient users can now create and submit Port Reports within CFM MRV, enabling port-related emissions data to be recorded and synchronised alongside existing voyage reports.

CFM Vessel Particulars

CFM Vessel Particulars lets you set up the foundation of your successful vessel management. Record and maintain a vast amount of specific data for every vessel and let your departments benefit from data such as dimensions, capacities, propulsion, consumptions, or delivery information for a smooth acceleration of their individual businesses.

  • Service Speed Design MCR RPM values can now be entered manually, giving users greater accuracy and control when maintaining vessel particulars.

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.

  • Procedures now provide email and in-app reminders for upcoming reviews and expiries based on the next renewal date, helping organisations keep critical documentation current.

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.

  • Supplier ratings can now be exported to Excel, providing a consolidated overview of overall performance and category-level ratings across order confirmation, delivery confirmation and requisition closure.
  • * A configurable invoice tolerance now controls how far invoice values may exceed the corresponding order value. Authorised users can approve exceptions with a mandatory justification, while unauthorised users are prevented from exceeding the defined threshold.
  • Approval rules can now evaluate budget codes at line-item level. Each requisition item can trigger the appropriate approval path based on its own budget group, rather than relying solely on the requisition header.
  • Payment due dates are now calculated automatically from the supplier’s registered payment terms whenever an invoice date is entered or updated, reducing manual effort and improving consistency.
  • Approvers can now be assigned in a defined priority order for requisitions, orders and invoices, ensuring that each approval stage is completed before the request progresses to the next approver.
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