Month: April 2024

Originally published on HARMAN Newsroom

STAMFORD, Conn., April 30, 2024 /3BL/ – General Motors (GM) has recognized HARMAN, an automotive electronics technology company and subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. focused on delivering consumer experiences at automotive grade, as a 2023 Supplier of the Year. GM celebrated honorees at its 32nd annual Supplier of the Year awards ceremony in Miami, Florida last week.

HARMAN has proudly earned this prestigious award for the third time. The Supplier of the Year award recognizes distinguished global suppliers that exceed GM’s requirements, in turn providing GM customers with innovative technologies and among the highest quality in the automotive industry.

“We are extremely honored to once again receive GM’s Supplier of the Year award,” remarked Christian Sobottka, President of HARMAN Automotive. “Our collaboration with GM remains steadfast in delivering unparalleled consumer experiences at an automotive grade — including our award-winning AKG sound in Cadillac vehicles, and next generation intelligent cockpit control products — and this acknowledgment underscores the dedication and hard work of our Automotive team, who continues to maintain exceptional standards. We look forward to continuing our work together in the years ahead.”

Each year, the Supplier of the Year award winners are chosen by a diverse, international team at GM, evaluating their performance across various metrics including performance, innovation, cultural alignment with GM’s values, and commitment to achieving GM’s ambitious goals.

“We’re honored to partner with these top suppliers who have made notable contributions to our transformation. Together, we’re pushing boundaries, pioneering new technologies and redefining what’s possible,” said Jeff Morrison, vice president, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain. “Their innovation and support are critical to helping us deliver the world-class vehicles our customers have to come expect.”

About HARMAN

HARMAN (harman.com) designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation solutions; and services supporting the Internet of Things. With leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson® and Revel®, HARMAN is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform around the world. More than 50 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and connected car systems. Our software services power billions of mobile devices and systems that are connected, integrated and secure across all platforms, from work and home to car and mobile. HARMAN has a workforce of approximately 30,000 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In 2017, HARMAN became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

About General Motors

General Motors (NYSE:GM) is a global company focused on advancing an all-electric future that is inclusive and accessible to all. At the heart of this strategy is the Ultium battery platform, which powers everything from mass-market to high-performance vehicles. General Motors, its subsidiaries and its joint venture entities sell vehicles under the Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, Baojun and Wuling brands. More information on the company and its subsidiaries, including OnStar, a global leader in vehicle safety and security services, can be found at https://www.gm.com.

For more information, contact:

Jessica Sader
Communications Manager, Automotive
jessica.sader@harman.com

In recognition of Global Volunteer Month this April, we are proud to highlight the thousands of Comcast volunteers who are positively impacting their communities all year long through our national volunteer program, Team UP. Most recently, as part of our National Engineers Week celebration in February, hundreds of Comcast technologists volunteered to modify toys for children with disabilities alongside leaders from Easterseals, a national disability services nonprofit and longtime Comcast partner.

In Denver; Washington, D.C.; and Philadelphia, our Technology, Product, and Experience (TPX) employees worked collaboratively in small groups with local Easterseals staff and high school students to adapt nearly 200 toys that typically require fine motor skills to operate.

Throughout the day, senior Easterseals representatives helped guide teams to the finish-line and shared what it means for Comcast employees to get involved with their mission. “Comcast’s support of Easterseals means equity, access, and inclusion. Comcast helps us unleash new communications options like eye gaze technology and iPads – it’s digital knowledge. They help our families engage with the world around them in ways they couldn’t before. It’s not just access, it’s independence,” reflected Liz Meckes, Director of Development, Easterseals of Southeastern Pennsylvania.

At Comcast, disability inclusion is at the heart of how we create experiences that everyone can enjoy. A valued partner in this work, Easterseals provides access to education, communication, community activities, and more for people with disabilities. Together, we are creating a world of unlimited possibilities where people of all abilities feel empowered to explore and discover the environment around them.

Every child should have the opportunity to explore and play as a foundation of their learning and development. That’s what inclusive design is all about, and we’re grateful to Easterseals for being our partner in this important initiative.

TOM WLODKOWSKI 
VP, Accessibility, Comcast

Team UP’s year-round programming empowers employees to get involved and make a positive impact in our local communities through volunteerism, charitable giving, and board service training. In 2023, we had an outstanding year powered by Team UP’s foundational principle – our reach is maximized when our employees come together for the causes they care about.

2023 Team UP Impact:

12K+ Employees engaged

50K Volunteer hours

6K Organizations impacted

$6M In donations

In addition to volunteering, Comcast technologists spent National Engineers Week celebrating the launch of our Designed with Love campaign, showcasing our partnerships with FIRST Robotics teams across the country, and hosting our fifth annual BENgineers conference focusing on our Black engineers and their allies. We also provided STEM students from Cristo Rey High School with an insider look at our Philadelphia HQ, and our TECHWomen technology resource group hosted a podcast interview with one of our Project UP partners, Reboot Representation, highlighting their mission to increase the number of Black, Latina, and Native American women with computer science degrees.

Comcast is dedicated to helping train the next generation of engineers and we are proud to recognize our remarkable employees for their innovation and thoughtfulness in uplifting each other, and those who seek to join them. We look forward to another bright year ahead led by our passionate teammates who are supporting the communities where we live and work.

MIAMI, April 30, 2024 /3BL/ – Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world’s largest cruise company, today announced it has completed the fleetwide rollout of LR OneOcean’s EnviroManager+ software – the most comprehensive and data-rich implementation of the LR OneOcean platform to date – setting a new standard for maritime journey and environmental planning. The system will deliver efficiencies in passage planning and support voyage compliance excellence with all relevant international, regional, national, and local environmental regulations.

The EnviroManager+ system was jointly developed by Carnival Corporation and LR OneOcean during an intensive five-year collaboration involving senior maritime officials, shipboard crew members, company and industry environmental experts, regulatory compliance leaders, and technology innovators. Together the team created the most encompassing, data-intensive adaptation of the LR OneOcean platform to date designed to give shipboard crews improved, automated, and intuitive tools to support passage and environmental planning, as well as enable enhanced environmental requirement monitoring during voyages.

Carnival Corporation’s nine world-class cruise lines and 90-plus ships sail all over the world, making more than 22,000 port calls each year to over 800 destinations, each with potentially different environmental regulations governing vessel operations. Rigorous requirements on air emissions, purified water release, and many others, can vary considerably on a day-to-day or even hour-by-hour basis depending on a vessel’s location and onboard equipment. As a result, it is important for crews to have ongoing, easy access to detailed information regarding all environmental requirements affecting each specific area traveled along a cruise ship’s itinerary.

EnviroManager+ provides this by visualising the precise boundaries of over 500 environmentally regulated zones worldwide via an intuitive, user-friendly interface. This data is overlaid with the many more restrictive, industry and Carnival Corporation-specific environmental policies to represent a complete view of the full scope of all environmental rules and regulations, regardless of governing body or jurisdiction. Updates to all policies and regulations are routinely and automatically shared with the fleet via a shore-to-ship data service within the LR OneOcean digital platform, which also automatically sends approved passage plans ashore for easy access to shoreside personnel.

The application accelerates and simplifies voyage planning by arming ships’ officers with easy-to-use digital planning tools, including automatic route generation capabilities, to plan voyages and environmental operations. It also automatically validates the accuracy and permissibility of planned operations and navigational routes, delivering actionable intelligence to assist decision-making, reduce risk, and ensure continuous compliance throughout every voyage. Meanwhile, both shoreside and onboard personnel have access to regulatory information that can be monitored in real-time against each vessel’s position, speed, and planned route.

John Haeflinger, Senior VP, Sustainability and Maritime Policy at Carnival Corporation, said: “Complying with environmental regulations is a top priority, and it is a real challenge for the cruise industry, as regulations and requirements constantly evolve and become more complex. As an industry leader proactively engaged in marine stewardship, we need to be confident that our operations meet all environmental requirements, including our own policies, which are often more restrictive. Given our longstanding engagement and collaboration on this project, LR OneOcean EnviroManager+ now gives us that confidence. I am convinced that the LR OneOcean product suite is the most comprehensive and complete maritime environmental regulatory database on the market today that is integrated with an automated passage plan solution for oceangoing vessels. I invite all other oceangoing ship operators committed to environmental compliance to consider giving it a try, because together we can build on the software’s capabilities for the greater good.”

Martin Penney, CEO, LR OneOcean said: “We are delighted to have partnered with Carnival Corporation in the successful adoption of EnviroManager+ across its fleet and support their journey to efficient environmental compliance management. Navigating the complex, rapidly changing regulatory landscape is a growing challenge in shipping. Operators, like Carnival Corporation, often cruise in areas of ecological significance and know how important staying environmentally compliant is to their guests. We applaud Carnival Corporation’s commitment to its ship- and shore-based team members, providing them with software to ensure environmental compliance in their passage planning and execution.”

More information: https://www.oneocean.com/insights/case-study-carnival-corporation

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Notes to editors

About Lloyd’s Register OneOcean 

Lloyd’s Register OneOcean is the digital solutions platform providing actionable intelligence to maritime professionals worldwide.

As an integral part of Lloyd’s Register, we exist to create a seamless connection between each and every vessel and voyage, stakeholder, and supply chain to truly unite the digital journey between ship and shore.

Our easy-to-use, secure platform brings market-leading compliance, management, and performance software together to help shipowners, operators, charterers, and crew drive stronger growth and efficiency in a safe, sustainable way.

With years of global maritime expertise, innovation, and experience across 22,000 vessels, we aim to be the most trusted digital platform for enhancing people, profits, and the planet.

 

About Carnival Corporation & plc

Carnival Corporation & plc is the largest global cruise company, and among the largest leisure travel companies, with a portfolio of world-class cruise lines – AIDA Cruises, Carnival Cruise Line, Costa Cruises, Cunard, Holland America Line, P&O Cruises (Australia), P&O Cruises (UK), Princess Cruises, and Seabourn.

Additional information can be found on www.carnivalcorp.com, www.aida.de, www.carnival.com, www.costacruise.com, www.cunard.com, www.hollandamerica.com, www.pocruises.com.au, www.pocruises.com, www.princess.com, and www.seabourn.com.

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Lloyd’s Register 
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Amber Hastings 
External Communications 
Carnival Corporation & plc 
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