The Greywing Story

A Vessel Manager, US$ 2.5 Million & 72 Hrs: A (true) story.

Some insights gleaned from an onboarding session with a crew manager

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Nick Clarke

22 February 2021

The Greywing Story

What do the Spartan battle of Thermopylae and Crew Changes have in common?

Crew changes are a problem of too much data that cannot be aggregated and turned into practical decisions without technology. In this article I break down the scale of the problem and what we are solving next.

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Nick Clarke

5 February 2021

Product Updates

Introducing Semaphore: Automated Port Agent Email

Semaphore enables you to send emails to 5 or 50 agents with a few clicks. No writing is required, unless you want to add notes and it is the fastest way to quickly generate feedback on port state and immigrations...

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Nick Clarke

28 October 2020

Product Updates

Automated Crew Changes in Singapore

A demonstration of Landfall and how it works

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Saif Kakakhel

7 October 2020

The Greywing Story

How Greywing discovered the Crew Change Crisis

This is a story that follows the evolution of Landfall - a product of Greywing that streamlines and optimizes crew changes in the shipping industry.

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Nick Clarke

20 September 2020

Product Updates

Automatic fuel calculations for crew change deviations

Removing hurdles to decision making through data

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Hrishi Olickel

9 September 2020

Engineering & Deep-tech

Why deep tech is the future of maritime

What the pandemic has exposed, and how fixing it will make us stronger in the long-term

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Hrishi Olickel

3 September 2020

Product Updates

Flotilla - Track your Vessels

Manage your fleet, book security teams, search flight availability and research VISA restrictions from a single dashboard

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Nick Clarke

1 September 2020

Product Updates

Port call ETAs & ETDs - simplifying voyage planning

Now you can enter specific ETAs & ETDs into CRY4 reports for even more accurate voyage and flight availability prediction.

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Nick Clarke

1 September 2020

Product Updates

Creating Geo-Fences

Track your vessels based on their movements in and out of High Risk Areas, Tax Jurisdictions or Territorial Waters or EEZs.

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Nick Clarke

1 September 2020

Product Updates

Automated Agency Outreach - Release date: 28th July 2020

Our plan to automate 10-20 emails every time a voyage plan changes.

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Nick Clarke

1 September 2020

Engineering & Deep-tech

A new distributed queuing system

Building a sharded queue for processing rate-sensitive jobs across multiple servers

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Hrishi Olickel

20 August 2020

The Greywing Story

The Greywing Story

Who Nick & Hrishi are and how Greywing started.

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Nick Clarke

18 August 2020

Engineering & Deep-tech

Real-time geospatial queries over a million points

A look at how we tackle different levels of complexity in the Greywing stack, with each one needing a different solution that fits the use case.

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Hrishi Olickel

29 July 2020

The Greywing Story

A million imprisoned: Getting stranded seafarers home

A problem of data and lives

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Hrishi Olickel

27 May 2020

Product Updates

Setting up an Operators Account

A short guide on how to set up an Operators account on Greywing. Communicate with Operations and your team, hear about new tasks first and keep your Due Diligence Documentation in order and up to date.

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Nick Clarke

27 May 2020

Product Updates

Greywing: What we have built

A chronological overview of the evolution of the Greywing platform and the latest tools and techniques we have delivered for you.

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Nick Clarke

18 November 2019

Engineering & Deep-tech

Taming complexity through user networks

How we built a marketplace that was self-sustaining and scalable, by representing stakeholders in code and aligning their incentives.

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Hrishi Olickel

27 September 2019