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)
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
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
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
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 information leads to better decisions. BargeOps now connects directly with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) data sources to keep gauge and dam opening
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
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 has a long history with BargeEx. We think that using an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) delivery system to connect barge service companies with their
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 released in January 2017. This update continues to deliver innovation and value for our customers and is based on input from our customers.
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
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 Version 5 includes a number of new features designed to improve usability as well as updates to the underlying engine to improve performance. At
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
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
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
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 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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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