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BargeDocs

The SMS on board — offline, searchable, with forms

Windows · Linux — app aan boord
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The complete Safety Management System on board, as a desktop app that works fully offline. One search box across every chapter, with the chapter and page number on each result — even mid-river without coverage. No more leafing through a binder to find a single paragraph.

Every form the SMS refers to is digital: over fifty appendices as schema-driven forms with required fields, declarations and crew sign-off. What comes out at the end is a clean PDF in the operator's own layout — not a scan of a filled-in sheet. The ship profile pre-fills the standing data; measurements, checks and signatures deliberately stay manual.

Filled-in forms stay local on the machine, per user; nothing goes to a cloud. The dashboard shows per chapter what has been filled in and what is still open — audit-ready, without anyone ashore having to look over a shoulder. BargeDocs is set up per operator around their own approved SMS.

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In pictures

The dashboard opens on audit readiness: how many interval forms are on schedule, and the progress per chapter.
The dashboard opens on audit readiness: how many interval forms are on schedule, and the progress per chapter.
Reading a chapter exactly as approved — with the original page numbers in the margin.
Reading a chapter exactly as approved — with the original page numbers in the margin.
An appendix as a digital form: who is filling it in, the declaration that has to be read, and links to the SMS passage it rests on. Screenshots show a demo installation.
An appendix as a digital form: who is filling it in, the declaration that has to be read, and links to the SMS passage it rests on. Screenshots show a demo installation.

What it does

  • The complete SMS on board, also without an internet connection
  • Search across every chapter and form, with chapter and page references
  • 50+ appendices as digital forms with declarations and sign-off
  • A ready-to-use PDF in the operator's own layout
  • Filled-in forms stay local on the vessel, per user
  • Dashboard with progress per chapter; the ship profile pre-fills standing data

What's new

Recent improvements, newest first.

  1. Audit-ready dashboard and crew list

    July 2026

    The dashboard opens on the state of play per chapter: what has been filled in, what is still open, and which forms are due for their periodic review. The tiles are clickable, there is a crew tab, and search results are ranked by relevance instead of by document order.

  2. Declaration and SMS passage inside the form itself

    July 2026

    Forms show the declaration before sign-off, with a direct link to the chapter or appendix it rests on. Whoever signs has seen the text — without having to leaf through anything alongside it.

  3. Over fifty appendices digitised

    July 2026

    The form set has grown to over fifty appendices, each with an explicit automation boundary: standing ship and profile data is pre-filled, while measurements, checks, declarations and signatures stay manual.

  4. Installation and updates on board

    July 2026

    BargeDocs runs as an installable app on Windows and Linux and fetches updates by itself as soon as there is a connection. The rest of the time everything keeps working offline: the SMS, the forms and the stored PDFs live locally on the vessel.

For operators who want their approved SMS on board without the paper binder, and for skippers who want the answer in ten seconds instead of ten minutes of page-turning.

BargeDocs

Windows · Linux — app aan boord

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