INFORM · A FRONTM PLATFORM MODULE

Crew infotainment that strengthens safety and compliance.

Your shore team schedules a notice once. Inform delivers it to every screen on board, online or off.

4,000+
vessels reached
100K+
maritime professionals connected
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Problem & opportunity

Safety culture is now inspectable.

Engagement is not a soft metric. It is an operating control.

Every department sends. Nobody knows what landed.

01

Safety culture is now inspectable.

For years, safety was judged by whether the system existed: the manual, the checklist, the procedure, the campaign. That bar has moved. IMO frames safety culture as a move from unthinking compliance to people at every level taking responsibility for safer performance. SIRE 2.0 now brings the human element into inspection: hardware, process, and whether crews can actually apply what the system depends on.

The question is no longer, was it sent. It is, did the crew understand it.

Source

IMO, on safety culture and ISM. OCIMF SIRE 2.0, on human factors in inspection.

02

What engagement is worth.

Gallup’s latest Q12 meta-analysis shows top-quartile engaged teams outperform bottom-quartile teams across the outcomes maritime leaders care about: fewer safety incidents, fewer defects, higher productivity, better retention and stronger profitability. In shipping, that translates directly into safer decisions, cleaner execution and fewer avoidable breakdowns between shore intent and onboard reality.

Safety. Compliance. Efficiency. Engagement is the lever that moves all three.

Source

Gallup Q12 meta-analysis, latest edition (63 / 32 / 23).

03

The communication failure.

Technical sends circulars. Marine sends advisories. HSQE sends alerts. Crewing sends notices. Class, flag, charterers and clubs add more. On board, it all collapses into the same overloaded channels: paper, PDFs, email, noticeboards and files, counted as “communicated” simply because it was distributed. But attention is the scarcest resource at sea. Workload pressure is rising, training satisfaction is falling, and safety incidents are growing faster than the fleet. Paper pushes people towards information. Modern safety communication pushes the right information towards people, in context, when it matters.

The frontline of world trade should not depend on A4 to carry safety culture.

Source

DNV, on the 42% rise in incidents. Seafarer Happiness Index, on workload and training.

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MEET LOFT KIOSK

One visible communication layer across the fleet.

Loft Kiosk is an interactive onboard communication and crew-engagement platform from FrontM. And because FrontM manages the service end to end, the channel stays active without creating another day-to-day workload for vessel and shore teams.
The Loft Kiosk console interface
ONE CONTINUOUS CHANNEL
Touch-enabled displays installed in high-traffic vessel areas become a continuously updated channel for safety, compliance, operations, learning, news and crew engagement.
LOFT KIOSKINFORM
SafetyEnclosed spaces
ComplianceMarine notices index, Rev Mar 2026
OperationsPorts of call: Fujairah
LearningGeneral knowledge: IMO autonomous ships code
NewsPorts of call: New York harbor
Crew engagementWellbeing: breathing exercise
SafetyGrounding under pilotage
ComplianceFleet safety circular MSEQ-001-2026
OperationsPorts of call: Sydney
LearningGeneral knowledge: the language of the sea
Engine room fire prevention actions
Crew engagementWellbeing: stargazing from the deck
BEHIND EVERY SCREEN
Behind every screen is FrontM's INFORM platform - providing content management, programming, workflows, oversight and reporting from shore.
EVERY SCREEN, AT ONCE
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Loft Kiosk · every vessel, one channel
The solution
What the managed service includes.
Loft Kiosk is the interactive board: one managed channel that carries safety, compliance, operations, learning, news and crew engagement to every screen in the fleet.

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The content engine

One continuously refreshed channel for the whole fleet.

Microapp ecosystem

Everything the kiosk can carry.

Loft Kiosk is built on FrontM's microapp architecture: every capability is a composable module, not a fixed box of features. All seven apps below are already live. Select any tile for the full detail.

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Build it with us.

Loft Kiosk keeps growing: new microapps and integrations added as fleets ask for them. Tell us what your kiosk needs next.
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Twenty Starter Use Cases

One kiosk. Endless use cases.

All fully managed by FrontM - from day one.

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From fleet to screen

From logistics to life-saving service, fully managed by FrontM.

Step 01 01

We deploy.

FrontM installs and configures interactive kiosks in key onboard areas such as mess rooms, ship offices and common spaces.

Step 02 02

We shape the content mix.

FrontM works with your shore team to establish the right balance of safety, operations, learning, news and crew-engagement content for your fleet.

Step 03 03

We run it continuously.

FrontM schedules, manages and updates company content, FrontM content, news, campaigns and interactive workflows across the required fleets and vessels. Operators and subscribers do not need to programme, publish or maintain anything.

Step 04 04

You get the visibility.

FrontM monitors the service and provides shore teams with clear visibility into content activity, platform operations, engagement and monthly service performance.

The Hardware

Loft Kiosk is built for ships. Proven on ships.

Co-developed with one of the world's largest ship managers and hardened for life at sea.

32″
43″
49″
The kiosk

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Specification Hover or tap a row
  • Sizes 32″ · 43″ · 49″ Three portrait sizes: 32″, 43″ and 49″, all mounted in portrait orientation.
  • Resolution 4K UHD 4K UHD on the 43″ and 49″. Full HD on the 32″.
  • Brightness 500 cd/m² Up to 500 cd/m², clear in bright common areas, day and night.
  • Viewing angle 178° 178°, readable from across the room.
  • Duty rating 24/7 · 50,000 h Commercial-grade, 24/7 continuous operation, with around 50,000 hours of panel life.
  • Build Maritime-prepared Maritime-prepared, with a protective-glass fascia, wall-mounted.
  • Interaction Touch or non-touch Touch or non-touch, with an auxiliary camera add-on for shore-to-ship video.
  • Connectivity Works offline Runs on existing onboard connectivity, works offline and optimises every megabyte.
  • Control Remote from shore Fully remote from shore, down to power on and off. Cyber-safe and firewall-ready.
  • Set-up 15 minutes onboard Standard power and network. A 15-minute onboard step, remotely supported.
Cyber safe

Designed to support maritime cyber-risk management practices aligned with IMO guidance.

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Plans

Choose your coverage. Choose your model.

Loft Kiosk is configured around vessel size, onboard spaces and communication requirements.

Step 01 · Coverage Kiosks per vessel
Solo 1 kiosk For focused deployments or smaller communication footprints.
Duo 2 kiosks Recommended Coverage across two high-value locations, for example the mess room and the ship's office.
Trio 3 kiosks Extends coverage into an additional high-traffic or operational area, for greater shipboard reach.
Step 02 · Screen size Touch screens
32″ 43″ 49″

Placed where impact is highest, each with its own storyboard.

with auxiliary camera add-on
Step 03 · Ownership model Hardware choice

Own the hardware outright, or lease it.

Own outright Lease

A small daily cost. Meaningful fleet-wide value.

USD 4 per vessel, per day

At approximately USD 4 per vessel per day, Loft Kiosk gives shipowners a managed communication channel for safety, compliance, welfare and crew engagement across the fleet. Even modest efficiencies outweigh the daily subscription cost, through reduced printing, less administrative effort and fewer manual communication tasks onboard and ashore. The greater value, from more consistent safety messaging, better compliance visibility, stronger crew engagement and a communication channel that stays active, is significantly higher than the spend.

What's at stake

Marine claims analysis underlines the stakes.

75%

of the value of almost 15,000 marine liability claims analysed is linked to human error.

ALLIANZ / AGCS
USD 1.6bn+

the human-error share of those analysed claims: losses that begin or end with a decision made on board.

ALLIANZ / AGCS
+42% vs ~10%

rise in maritime safety incidents, 2018-2025, against roughly 10% growth in the global fleet.

DNV
The payback

It pays back before lunch.

Loft Kiosk pays back first through reduced print, paper, cartridges and reprints (print-management studies suggest USD 9-15 of total cost for every USD 1 actually printed) and, more significantly, through saved shore and vessel time.

Saving driver (per vessel) Conservative daily value vs ≈ USD 4/day

Print, cartridge & reprint reduction

USD 3-15 / day
up to ~4×

10 min shore admin saved per day

Superintendent / HSQE / marine HR
USD 8-15 / day
~2-4×

10 min ship-team time saved per day

Captain / officers
USD 8-20 / day
~2-5×

One avoided compliance rework cycle per month

USD 10-30 / day equiv.
~3-7×

A fraction of one seafarer retained per vessel per year

≈ USD 7,000 / retained seafarer
multi-fold ROI

One avoided safety, audit or readiness lapse

tens of thousands / event
pays back for years

Illustrative, conservative per-vessel values compared with the ≈ USD 4/day Duo subscription. The full model, built on your fleet, arrives with your proposal.

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