Japanese shipping heavyweight Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) has started using AIplicity Chat Powered by ChatGPT API (AIplicity Chat) provided by Japan Business Systems, Inc. across its offices in Japan. The system is an AI chat service based on the Azure OpenAI Service which Microsoft offers on its
Taiwanese shipping firm Evergreen Marine Corp. (EMC) held an official opening ceremony for the newly built Terminal 7 at Kaohsiung Port, Taiwan, on Monday, August 14. This is the first and largest fully-automated container terminal equipped with remote-controlled gantry cranes in Taiwan. The facilit
Japanese companies NittoSeiko and Sunflame have joined the Aquarius Innovation Forum, a dynamic and collaborative platform that emerged from Eco Marine Power’s research project collaboration initiatives. Eco Marine Power, an internationally focused technology company based in Fukuoka, Japan, develop
Norwegian RoRo shipping company Höegh Autoliners has selected Kongsberg Digital’s solution to digitalse its fleet and the new Aurora-class pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs). Kongsberg Digital and Höegh Autoliners have worked together since 2019. The partners have now decided to expand their colla
Fugro Middle East has placed an order with an Australia-headquartered company for video streaming technology for its uncrewed surface vessel (USV) operations. Perth-based Harvest Technology Group reported that it had secured its first order from Fugro Middle East for its hybrid Nodestream and Remote
Noble reached a new milestone in the fleetwide rollout of Energy Efficiency Insights (EEI), which is now available on 20 rigs in its fleet.
Upwing Energy has tweaked its Enhanced Production Simulator (EPS) to enable operators to boost gas production by optimising well performance.
Climate technology company ZeroNorth has signed a three-year contract with Swiss freight trader Cargill on the provision of software for optimisations across vessels and voyages. The deal will see ZeroNorth become the main optimisation partner for more than 600 vessels the aim being to drive efficie
Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corporation has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) for the development of a prototype version of Blue Visby Solution.
Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and KDDI Corporation have partnered to trial satellite broadband Starlink onboard a MOL Group-operated cruise ship, ferries, and a coastal RoRo vessel aimed at enhancing the communication environment aboard ships.
Swiss freight trader Cargill has completed two pilot projects with Safetytech Accelerator, a dedicated technology accelerator established by Lloyd’s Register, involving robotic hull cleaning solutions and automated data collection from ship machinery. The projects were selected as part of Safetytech
EU-Scores project partner, an Irish company Exceedence, has made it to the new Horizon Results Platform with its exfin software developed to speed up the rollout of offshore wind, wave and tidal energy projects.
SLB has been hired on a long-term contract by Brazil’s Petrobras, which is investing in AI and cloud-based technologies to ramp up production.
The UK’s National Subsea Centre (NSC) and Robert Gordon University (RGU) are collaborating on a data project to add artificial intelligence technology to subsea inspection operations. The Subsea AI Body of Knowledge (SAIBOK) project is using AI and machine learning technologies to accurately train a
