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Introduction

There may appear a situation that a crew member is transferred from one vessel to another within the same day without any travel activity.

This way his sea-service ends onboard one vessel but is continued on another vessel on the very same day.

To cover such situation & avoid cutting one of sea-service activities - we recommend you to use Vessel Transfer functionality.

The workflow

1. Perform the SignOff for the shift that belongs to a vessel that is left (vessel 1).
   Clear Leave activity in Sign Off Crew Change;

2. Add the shift for the vessel to be joined (vessel 2) with StartDate = SignOff date for shift being left.

3. Assign the person to this new shift & perform Sign On (on vessel 2).

4. Manually change date in Activities datagroup.

Result: You will have two shifts & corresponding activities that have one crossing day, covering the vessel transfer.

Before you start

The following setup is needed to be done beforehand:

1. A user should have Write access to the field C132 Vessel Transfer in ACC > Fields > Crew Change > Off/On Signers View:

   

2. Set 1 Day Overlap keep existing shift length option under Setup > Global Options > Modules > Rotation:

3. Enable Allow 'Vessel Transfer' selection option in Global Options > Modules > Crew Change:

   

Vessel Transfer Procedure

Let's review in detail all the steps required to perform the vessel transfer in APM.

Step 1:

At Rotation Maintenance view, we advise you to do not open the entire rotation plan but use filtering:

At the bottom of the screen you can select how you would like to open the rotation plan. Select By Filter.

Here you have selections of criteria you may use to open just the vessels and position you would like work with.

Click UNKNOWN ATTACHMENT to see the plan.

Step 2:

Confirm Sign OFF on vessel 1:

Locate shift, click Confirm > Confirm Sign Off.

Pin will be added as Off Signer to port on 11/12/2018, click Yes.

To save changes, click Apply button.

Step 3:

Go to crew change on 11/12/18 for Vessel 1 > Off Signing tab.

Find the person that transfers ships:

1. Clear Leave Activity field.

   When the crew change will be then confirmed, Leave activity will not be created for person(s) with Vessel Transfer.

2. Click the Vessel Transfer drop-down to select the vessel where the person signs on next.
   This will give information where the person moves to.

3. Under Disembarkation Reason you can select for example Ship Transfer.
   Disembarkation Reason codes should be previously added in General Codes. 

   Font changed to Blue to indicate Vessel Transfer for this person.

Step 4:

Return to your rotation plan and assign pin to join vessel 2 (in our case Rima Mari) on the same date (11/12/2018):

1. Locate needed shift.

2. Click UNKNOWN ATTACHMENT Assign Person, find Pin, click Copy Selection.

3. The application will prompt that the crewmember is already assigned to an existing shift/activity on Vessel 1.
   Select Keep Person assigned to remaining shift option.

   If you select Remove……, he will then disappear from the Vessel 1. 

   Click OK.

The Snap to crew change will show you the joining and sign off port for the activity you are just about to create:

In case you have different port on the same day, here you can select which port is the correct one.

If there is only one port, selection is not active, and you can just click Link to Port.
Click Apply.

Step 5:

Confirm Sign On/Off

Person is added to the shift, now you need to confirm sign on/off, so he to appear on corresponding crew changes for vessel 2.

Locate shift, select Confirm > Sign On then Sign Off:

Yes

Yes

Click Apply.

Step 6:

Change activity Estimated End Date.

Go back to the Activity datagroup for target Pin:

1. You will notice that the Estimated sign off date for the Vessel 1 has been changed to the previous day

2. You need to edit the EED and enter the correct sign off date (in our case 11/12/18).

Done!