BoatOn Book Is Now Available in 25 Languages — What This Means for Your Fleet
- BoatOn
- Jun 2
- 3 min read
Updated: Jun 3
A Ukrainian chief engineer, a Greek captain, and a Filipino deckhand can share the same vessel. Their professional instincts and daily routines are not expressed in the same language. That’s exactly why BoatOn Book is now available in 25 languages — and this is a far more operational upgrade than it might seem.
Shipping is the most international industry on earth
Maritime transport carries approximately 90% of global trade. It relies on roughly 1.9 million seafarers of every nationality. Filipino seafarers alone represent around 30% of the world’s maritime workforce, followed by Chinese, Indonesian, Russian, and Ukrainian nationals.
Greece controls more than 20% of the global fleet by tonnage — making it the world’s leading maritime nation. It’s no coincidence that BoatOn chose Posidonia 2026 in Athens — the world’s premier shipping event — to unveil this multilingual version. The message is clear: BoatOn Book is built for the global fleet.
Dutch shipowners, Scandinavian operators, Japanese and Korean fleet managers: these are markets that have long needed a vessel management tool in their own language. That’s now possible.
Language barriers are a real operational risk
A maritime CMMS only available in French or English creates a concrete problem: it doesn’t get used.
A chief engineer who logs maintenance data in a language he only partially understands will log less, less accurately, and less consistently. Maintenance histories become incomplete. Alerts go unread. Preventive tasks are skipped or performed without traceability.
This isn’t a question of motivation — it’s a question of ergonomics. A tool that speaks the user’s language is a tool that actually gets used. And a tool that gets used means a better-maintained vessel, a more compliant fleet, and fewer incidents.
For technical directors and fleet managers overseeing multinational crews, the language barrier carries a direct cost: incomplete maintenance data, poor traceability, and increased regulatory risk.
25 languages delivered in record time for Posidonia 2026
The BoatOn team delivered a remarkable achievement in record time, ready before Posidonia 2026, the world’s largest shipping event. BoatOn Book is now available in 27 languages, including 25 new ones:
🇩🇪 German
🇪🇸 Spanish
🇮🇹 Italian
🇳🇱 Dutch
🇵🇹 Portuguese
🇩🇰 Danish
🇫🇮 Finnish
🇮🇸 Icelandic
🇸🇪 Swedish
🇧🇬 Bulgarian
🇭🇷 Croatian
🇪🇪 Estonian
🇬🇷 Greek
🇭🇺 Hungarian
🇱🇻 Latvian
🇱🇹 Lithuanian
🇵🇱 Polish
🇷🇴 Romanian
🇸🇰 Slovak
🇸🇮 Slovenian
🇨🇿 Czech
🇺🇦 Ukrainian
🇨🇳 Chinese
🇰🇷 Korean
🇯🇵 Japanese
🇷🇺 Russian
🇻🇳 Vietnamese
This rollout covers the major European navigation languages (Scandinavian, Baltic, Central European), the leading Asian maritime nations (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam), and the most prevalent nationalities among international crews (Ukrainian, Russian, Polish).
Access BoatOn Book in your language
Click your language to access BoatOn Book directly:
What this means in practice for your operations
For technical directors, fleet managers, and shipowners overseeing multinational crews, the benefits are immediate:
Faster adoption by on-board teams, with no specific software training required
More accurate and complete maintenance logging, in each technician’s native language
Fewer misunderstandings in maintenance workflows and alert handling
Easier deployment across fleets registered under foreign flags or with multinational crews
Stronger ISM and MLC compliance through frictionless traceability
An owner operating vessels under Greek, Croatian, or Dutch flags no longer needs to impose a foreign language on their teams. BoatOn Book adapts to them, not the other way around.
BoatOn Book — a complete ERP for vessel fleet and port infrastructure management
BoatOn Book is a complete ERP for vessel fleet and port infrastructure management. It covers maintenance, crew management, digital logbook and automated carbon reporting — for vessels from 15 to 150 metres, used by shipowners, merchant shipping operators, superyachts, workboats, and professional charter companies.
The CMMS module is one of the core components of BoatOn Book: equipment tracking, work order planning, spare parts inventory management, and full maintenance traceability.
Beyond maintenance, BoatOn Book manages:
Crew management and rest hours tracking (MLC compliance)
Automated carbon footprint reporting (ADEME partnership)
ISM/ISPS compliance reports
All of this in a simple, mobile-first interface — no server installation required — now available in 27 languages.
Shipping is global. Your tools should be too.
Shipping is the most international industry in the world. It was about time its tools were too.
If you operate vessels with multinational crews or are targeting markets outside the French or English-speaking world, BoatOn Book is now built for you.
