A Tidewater Inc. vessel.

UniSea AS, a software developer and consultancy specializing in solutions for the shipping industry, has been selected by Tidewater Inc. as their partner in the digitalizing and standardizing of Tidewater’s business processes related to health, safety, environment, quality (HSEQ) and operations. The UniSea software suite will be implemented on all Tidewater vessels and in all offices in one of the largest contracts in UniSea’s 21-year history.

Tidewater Inc., headquartered in Houston, could become the world’s biggest operator of offshore service vessels (OSV) following its merger with Gulfmark Offshore, with 273 vessels and 25 offices worldwide. Under the terms of the contract, Tidewater will implement UniSea modules for procedures and manuals, incident reporting, environmental and fuel consumption reporting, risk assessments, international ship and port facility security (ISPS) codes, permit to work, audits and more. —UniSea AS

A Tidewater Inc. vessel.