Industry
Merchant Marine
We build, integrate, and support software for vessel operators and merchant mariners — across the navigation, communication, fleet-management, and supply-chain systems that keep ships running.
Commercial shipping runs on a stack of specialized systems — bridge electronics, satellite links, planned-maintenance and procurement platforms — that have to keep working at sea, far from IT support, on connectivity that comes and goes. We build software that respects those realities: offline-first, bandwidth-aware, and able to integrate with the equipment and platforms already aboard.
From a single vessel to a managed fleet, we know the navigation, communication, and supply-chain systems merchant mariners depend on, and we build the tooling, integrations, and ship-to-shore dashboards that tie them together. Our edge is familiarity and access — we understand how these systems behave underway, not just on a spec sheet.
Ecosystem
Platforms & systems we work with
The environment we build for and integrate against, grouped by where it sits in the stack.
Navigation & Bridge Systems
The electronics that get the ship there safely.
ECDIS
The Electronic Chart Display and Information System is the heart of the modern bridge. We're familiar with the major ECDIS platforms — Furuno, JRC, Wärtsilä/Transas Navi-Sailor, and Kongsberg — and build tooling around route planning, chart-update workflows, and voyage data.
AIS & ARPA Radar
We work with Automatic Identification System feeds and ARPA radar tracking to power situational-awareness, traffic, and collision-avoidance tooling — on the bridge and mirrored ashore.
GNSS & Voyage Planning
We integrate GPS/GNSS positioning with passage-planning and weather-routing data to support safe, fuel-efficient voyages, and build the analytics that compare planned versus actual track.
Communication & Connectivity
Keeping ship and shore in sync over a thin pipe.
GMDSS
The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System is the regulated backbone of maritime safety communication. We build software that sits alongside GMDSS and respects it, never interferes with it.
Satellite — VSAT · Inmarsat · Iridium · Starlink
We design bandwidth-aware applications for maritime satellite links — Inmarsat Fleet Xpress, Iridium, traditional VSAT, and increasingly Starlink Maritime — so software degrades gracefully when the connection is thin or drops entirely.
Microsoft 365 (O365)
We integrate with O365 — Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint — so ship and shore staff collaborate in the tools they already use, with sync that tolerates being offline for days at a time.
Fleet & Supply Chain Management
The systems that keep a fleet maintained and stocked.
Planned Maintenance & Procurement
We integrate with maritime fleet-management and planned-maintenance systems such as SpecTec AMOS and DNV ShipManager, building the maintenance, spares-inventory, and reporting tooling that surrounds them.
Voyage & Chartering
We're familiar with voyage-management and chartering platforms like Veson IMOS, and build the data integrations and analytics that connect commercial operations to the rest of the business.
Supply Chain & e-Procurement
We build supply-chain and procurement tooling — supplier catalogs, requisitions, and spares logistics — and integrate with maritime e-procurement networks like ShipServ to keep vessels stocked and turnarounds short.
Product and platform names above belong to their respective owners and are referenced to describe the systems we work with and integrate against. 66 Parallel is an independent software studio and is not affiliated with or endorsed by these vendors.
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