bmoncey, Author at BargeOps

How to Set Rates for River Towing: Variables to Consider

2024-09-18

Rate setting is one of the most complicated elements that goes into billing for towing services. It’s also one of the most fundamental and essential.

The Enduring Impact of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway

2024-06-28

The Establishment of a Vital Commercial Lifeline Stretching over 1,100 miles (1,800 km) between Brownsville, Texas, and Apalachee Bay, Florida, the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW)

Onboard Tow Manager

2019-12-30

An important aspect of line haul boat operations is managing tow diagrams that become part of the towing vessel record (TVR) and provide real time

Gauge and Dam Info

2019-11-16

BargeOps now provides an automatic process to record daily gauge and dam opening information base on the USACE Lock Report. The system downloads data from

Customer Friendly Invoicing

2019-10-30

We’ve made a few improvements to BargeOps related to invoices for your customers. First, when emailing invoices to multiple contacts at a customer, it’s helpful

Onboard Resources for Captains

2019-09-15

In order to reduce wheelhouse distraction and make it easier for captains to get to the information they need while on the water, BargeOps now

Better Decisions with Data on the River

2019-08-30

Better information leads to better decisions. BargeOps now connects directly with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) data sources to keep gauge and dam opening

Towing Vessel Record Audits

2019-05-30

BargeOps can automatically generate a new Towing Vessel Record (TVR) for a boat. Follow this link to an earlier post if you’d like to learn

BargeOps Software As A Service

2019-04-22

There is a shift occurring in the inland marine industry as companies are increasingly using technology of various types to drive competitiveness. With the recent

BargeOps 5.4 improves BargeEx Support

2019-03-26

BargeOps has a long history with BargeEx. We think that using an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) delivery system to connect barge service companies with their

Grow Your Fleeting Revenue with BargeOps

2019-03-18

What if fleeting companies with only a few boats had a low-cost software program to improve their business growth potential? Would they be able to

Digital Transformation of Your Fleeting Business

2018-11-30

Running a barge fleeting operation requires attention to an incredible array of details. It takes a well-trained and experienced team to ensure that customers receive

BargeOps And the Data Revolution In Fleet Management

2018-10-26

By David Murray The St. Louis-based software company BargeOps has been serving barge company owners and barge fleet managers for more than 20 years now.

Trip Planner

2018-05-18

BargeOps Onboard enables the seamless exchange of information between shore based dispatch and the boats. It is a fully integrated boat-based module for traffic management that

TVR Deck Log Activity Types for Subchapter M

2018-04-17

In a recent post, New Towing Vessel Record, we noted that BargeOps added new Deck Log Activity types and expanded the details in others to better track

BargeOps 5.3 New Towing Vessel Record

2018-03-30

Compliance with Subchapter M is a challenge for towboats in the US. Our goal is to make tracking the information critical for compliance easy for

BargeOps 5.2 Streamlines Data Entry and Search

2017-12-12

Released in November 2017, BargeOps 5.2 delivers many improvements in the Onshore application to streamline and improve quality of data entry and provide additional information

BargeOps Portal Delivers What (YOUR) Customers Want

2017-09-27

Our customers provide most of the new ideas they want to see in BargeOps, but sometimes those new ideas come from our customers’ customers. The

More Usability Updates to BargeOps Onshore

2017-08-30

We’re always looking for ways to make using BargeOps Onshore easier to use and more functional so that you and your dispatch team can get

Actionable Insights with BargeOps Analytics

2017-03-23

Data about your customers, contracts, and operations is one of your most valuable business assests (for more on this, take a look at the CSG

BargeOps 5.1

2017-02-23

BargeOps 5.1 released in January 2017. This update continues to deliver innovation and value for our customers and is based on input from our customers.

Forms For All of Your VGP Needs

2017-01-30

We recently wrote about how BargeOps is Streamlining VGP Compliance. This post provides some additional information about this topic. Our goal is to help inland

Streamlining VGP Compliance

2016-12-15

Compliance on the river is one of many challenges for inland marine operators. One issue that everyone struggles with is the EPA’s VGP (Vessel General

BargeOps 5.0 Improves Usability

2016-08-09

BargeOps Version 5 includes a number of new features designed to improve usability as well as updates to the underlying engine to improve performance. At

BargeOps 4.2

2016-04-19

Sometimes the most important changes are the ones you can’t see. In our newest version, BargeOps 4.2 released March 31, 2016, we upgraded the underlying

Quick Tip: Duplicate Record Found

2016-03-01

When a problem occurs in BargeOps Onshore, it displays a notification to the user. Our Quick Tips series addresses some common notifications, explains what happened in

Quick Tip: USCG Number Already Exists

2016-02-09

When a problem occurs in BargeOps Onshore, it displays a notification to the user. Our Quick Tips series addresses some common notifications, explains what happened in

Quick Tip: Unable To Remove Item

2016-01-26

When a problem occurs in BargeOps Onshore, it displays a notification to the user. Our Quick Tips series addresses some common notifications, explains what happened in

BargeOps 4.1 Delivers More for Your Business

2016-01-11

BargeOps continues to add and enhance features based on the input of our customers. In addition to the major improvements to demurrage in BargeOps 4.1,

BargeOps 4.1 Demurrage Improvements

2016-01-04

Improvements to BargeOps enable you to do more than barge trip demurrage on a per barge basis. With BargeOps 4.1 you can now handle: Demurrage Adjustments Demurrage Billing

BargeOps Portal

2015-11-18

Do your customers want to know what is happening with their barges? Do your vendors need to know what’s coming at them? BargeOps has a

BargeOps Expands Role Based Permissions

2015-10-22

Security is always top of mind for anyone with IT responsibilities these days. It’s also top of mind for the BargeOps team who recently enhanced

Track Repair Status For Your Barges

2015-10-19

When one of your revenue-generating barges leaves the fleet for needed repair, you don’t want to waste time assigning it to a freight movement because

Overcoming The Challenges To Electronic Data Interchange – part 2

2015-07-13

By Mark Peterman (Second in a two-part series) In the first part of this two-part series on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), which ran last month

Towing and Fleet Management Module Gains New Web Application

2015-06-23

The BargeOps development team is constantly adding new features to the already robust software package. The newest feature is called BargeOps Boat Map. “Mapping boats

BargeOps Delivers Industry-First Analytics Module

2015-06-23

Good communication with clients often leads to an ideal solution in solving business problems. It was exactly that kind of relationship that led to the

Inland Marine Industry Would Benefit From More EDI

2015-06-15

By Mark Peterman President, Cornerstone Solutions Group First of a two-part series What do PDFs, papers, spreadsheets and emails all have in common? These are

Are You Using Information To Improve Customer Satisfaction?

2015-03-15

Technology On The Waterways: Are You Using Information To Improve Customer Satisfaction? By Mark Peterman President, Cornerstone Solutions Group Think about how better access to

Better Use Of Data Translates To Better Bottom Line

2015-01-10

Technology On The Waterways: Better Use Of Data Translates To Better Bottom Line By Mark Peterman President, Cornerstone Solutions Group When BargeOps develops solutions for

Cornerstone Solutions Group President Featured in Waterways Journal

2015-01-08

Mark Peterman, President of Cornerstone Solutions Group, the parent company of BargeOps, will be featured in a new regular column in the Waterways Journal, a

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