Suite modules
- Maintenance
- Purchase
- Crewing and payroll
- Inspections and audits
- Schedule and agents, operations and charter
- Risk assessment and QHSE
- Organisation
PMS database services for
CFM.
Database building, data entry, audits and migration, from the equipment makers' own manuals and delivered in the CFM import format.
- Developer
- Hanseaticsoft GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
- Founded
- 2009, by Alexander Buchmann
- Owner
- Part of the Lloyd's Register group since 2017
- On board
- Cloud Ship Manager (CSM), works offline and syncs when the vessel reconnects
Overview
Cloud Fleet Manager (CFM) is a browser-based ship management suite from Hanseaticsoft of Hamburg, part of the Lloyd's Register group. CFM Maintenance is its planned maintenance module, and Cloud Ship Manager is the part that runs on board.
- Deployment
- Browser-based SaaS on Microsoft Azure
- Reported reach
- Almost 90 companies with 1,800+ vessels (2021 figure)
Origin and history
How CFM got here.
Hanseaticsoft was founded in Hamburg in 2009 by Alexander Buchmann to build ship management software that runs in the browser rather than on local servers. In April 2017 Lloyd's Register made a significant investment in the company, which has since been part of the Lloyd's Register group.
CFM Maintenance, a cloud-based planned maintenance module, was introduced in February 2018. The suite grew from more than 25 applications in 2018 to close to 40 business apps by 2021. In 2023 Lloyd's Register brought its digital products together under the OneOcean brand.
Publicly reported users include Peter Döhle, NSC Holding, Atlantic Lloyd and OSM Maritime Group.
Features
What CFM does.
CFM Maintenance
- Central planning of maintenance across the fleet
- Dashboard at login with approval processes
- Cash-flow planning across jobs, resources and costs
- Jobs split into critical and non-critical, with class-relevant and high-priority jobs flagged
- Short-notice rescheduling to level the workload
- Critical spare parts data and certificates held in CFM Inspection
- Offline work on board in Cloud Ship Manager, synced to the office on reconnection
- API access for integration with other systems
What we deliver
Your CFM data, built from the source.
Equipment, jobs, intervals and spare parts prepared for import into CFM Maintenance, data clean-up before a move to CFM, and audits of existing CFM maintenance data.
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Content taken from the makers' manuals, with the source cited in each job.
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One equipment hierarchy and job standard across your fleet, whatever the software.
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A check of every job against its source before delivery.
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Nothing invented to fill gaps: missing documentation is reported, not guessed.
See also PMS database building, PMS health checks and PMS data migration.
FAQ
Questions about CFM work.
Are you a reseller or partner of CFM?
No. Norsetech Group is an independent service provider. We do not sell CFM; we build, audit and migrate the data that goes into it, in the format CFM imports.
Do you need a login to our CFM system?
No. We work from exports and from the CFM import template, so your live system is not touched.
What do you need from us to start?
The maker instruction manuals and parts lists for the vessel's equipment, the equipment list, and your CFM import template or an export of your current data. Where manuals are missing we tell you which equipment is affected rather than filling the gap with generic jobs.
Can you move our data from another PMS into CFM, or out of it?
Yes. We extract and clean the data from the current system, map it to the new platform's structure and deliver it in the new platform's import format, with the history carried across.
Sources
- Cloud Fleet Manager: home page (opens in a new tab)
- Hanseaticsoft: about (opens in a new tab)
- Ship Technology: Hanseaticsoft profile (opens in a new tab)
- MarineLink: Lloyd's Register invests in Hanseaticsoft (opens in a new tab)
- Digital Ship: cloud-based maintenance system introduced (opens in a new tab)
- Lloyd's Register: ship management in the cloud (opens in a new tab)
- Lloyd's Register: OneOceanLR (opens in a new tab)
- Cloud Fleet Manager: Cloud Ship Manager languages (opens in a new tab)
- Hellenic Shipping News: CFM user base (2021) (opens in a new tab)
Disclaimer
CFM is a trademark of its owner, used on this page only to identify the software. Norsetech Group is an independent service provider. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or a partner of the maker of CFM, and we do not sell, license or support the software itself.
The description of CFM on this page is a summary for general reference, compiled from the public sources listed above and checked on 3 November 2026. Products, features, ownership and names change, so it may be incomplete or out of date, and it is not a statement by the software maker. For the current and authoritative description, contact the maker. Nothing here is a warranty or a recommendation of any software.
If anything on this page is inaccurate, write to sales@norsetechgroup.com and we will correct it.