Case Study: Tropical Shipping achieves real-time asset visibility and streamlined maintenance with Chevin Fleet (FleetWave)

Tropical Shipping succeeds in asset management

Tropical Shipping USA, a freight carrier serving the Bahamas and the Caribbean with facilities in nine ports from Canada to South Florida, manages a fleet of 21,000 assets. The company needed greater visibility and control over dispersed equipment and more efficient maintenance processes to improve asset utilization, service reliability and overall competitiveness.

Tropical implemented Chevin’s FleetWave as a universal maintenance management system, integrating it with existing enterprise software and rolling out barcode-enabled handhelds. The system automated work orders, improved inventory and purchasing decisions, provided a single dashboard for PM status and maintenance histories, and eliminated much paperwork—delivering reduced admin costs, better parts management, optimized workforce use, and faster, data-driven maintenance decisions.

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