{"id":1015,"date":"2024-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneocean25stg.wpenginepowered.com\/insights\/carnival-corporation"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:37:06","slug":"carnival-corporation","status":"publish","type":"monolith_case_study","link":"https:\/\/www.oneocean.com\/insights\/case-studies\/carnival-corporation","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Corporation: a OneOcean success story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The challenge<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Carnival partnered with OneOcean to develop a digital solution that would facilitate environmental compliance, improving situational awareness, and delivering passage planning efficiencies.<\/p>\n

Carnival is a leading international cruise company operating 95 vessels globally. These ships sail all over the world and as they transit through different regions, they are required to operate according to the regulations and laws governing each area. To reduce the operational burden of burgeoning environmental rules and regulations, the company decided to partner with OneOcean to develop a comprehensive and intuitive environmental management and compliance solution<\/a> for use across its entire fleet and shore-based fleet operations centres.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Challenge 1: Updating and communicating environmental regulations effectively<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Cruise ships operate in many jurisdictions where local, national, regional, and international environmental regulations apply and are regularly evolving.<\/p>\n

Air emissions limitations, such as sulphur content, and discharge requirements relating to bilge water, grey water, black water, and ballast water, among others, can vary considerably depending on a vessel\u2019s location, onboard equipment, authorisations, age, and even its speed. Further, the regulations governing these discharges are constantly evolving.<\/p>\n

As regulations become more extensive and complex, staying up to date and correctly applying them to Carnival\u2019s operations had become increasingly arduous and time-consuming, creating error risk for cruise ship crews.<\/p>\n

\u201cComplying with environmental regulations is a top priority. Our legacy manual approach was becoming more burdensome and complex, with new environmental regulations being adopted with increasing frequency. We set out on a mission to identify a software solution that would automate and streamline the approach to help us solve this challenge.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

– John Haeflinger, Senior Vice President, Sustainability & Maritime Policy, Carnival Corporation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Challenge 2: Automating and streamlining environmental compliance<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Carnival faced challenges in tracking environmental regulations and planning compliant operations when using Excel spreadsheets, leading to difficulties for both shoreside and shipboard personnel, especially when passage plans changed. A digital solution was needed to provide both comprehensive regulatory visibility and integrate stricter industry and company-specific environmental policies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The solution<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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EnviroManager+<\/a> is part of the OneOcean digital Environmental Compliance solution that allows Carnival\u2019s teams aboard and onshore to view the precise boundaries of environmentally regulated zones around the world and directly access detailed information on the operations that are allowed, restricted and prohibited by zone, including the underlying regulations and regulatory text, via an intuitive, color-coded, user-friendly interface.<\/p>\n

This solution, enhanced through collaboration with Carnival, incorporates over 78,000 environmental zones using geofencing to visualise and convey regulations and requirements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Powered by a robust environmental regulatory database and leveraging advanced algorithms, EnviroManager+; provides up-to-date, relevant information for both ship crews and shoreside personnel. It facilitates a specific view of environmental regulations for ships and a fleet-wide perspective via the FleetManager<\/a> application, integrating Carnival\u2019s stringent internal and industry policies for superior compliance.<\/p>\n

Updates on regulations and policies are efficiently distributed to the fleet, ensuring easy access for shipboard and shoreside teams. EnviroManager+ also enhances voyage and environmental planning, reducing risk and saving planning time by automating processes and providing a real-time, forward-looking regulatory timeline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cLR OneOcean gives the ship\u2019s crew a real-time forward-looking view of what\u2019s coming\u00a0from an environmental management perspective, updating automatically based\u00a0on the ship\u2019s position and speed. This capability did not exist previously, other than\u00a0an estimate made on paper. This technology is delivering significantly improved\u00a0situational awareness and compliance risk reduction during voyage execution.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

– Nikki Rigl, Director, Environmental Regulatory Management & Operations, Carnival Corporation<\/p>\n

Carnival partnered with OneOcean for this project due to its technology base and ability to integrate and automate voyage and environmental planning for complex operations in any ocean across the globe. After working side-by-side with the OneOcean project team for more than 4 years, the Carnival team is convinced that the EnviroManager+ and OneOcean products include the most comprehensive and complete maritime environmental regulatory database and integrated, automated passage plan solution for oceangoing vessels available on the market today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The result<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Local, national, regional and international environmental rules and regulations are now kept up to date by the OneOcean solution. Company and industry policies are overlaid and maintained by Carnival. All of this data is easily accessible to all personnel through the platform. Voyage and operational planning are streamlined, delivering significant time efficiencies and simplifying environmental compliance.<\/p>\n

The OneOcean platform enables informed decision-making with enhanced situational awareness and monitoring of environmental requirements. Carnival benefits from more efficient planning and reduced environmental compliance risk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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