Digital Transformation in Shipping

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International shipping need to digitalize it’s operations, but how to pick the right tools and systems among the magnitude on offer?

Here is one that claim to have the answer to the question:

Geneva Dry Dialogues: GeoServe - Splash247

Customers want simpler, smarter, and more connected solutions, he argues, pointing out that today most owners are stuck managing multiple platforms and tools for bunkering, routing, port disbursements, laytime, and emissions—leading to inefficiencies, errors, and lost time.
GeoServe offers an end-to-end voyage management solution—from support during pre-fixture to post-fixture execution and post-voyage finalisation and analysis.

Or go for a mulitude of systems, each claiming to be best suited for individual task?:

SSY appoints former Clarksons exec to lead digital transformation - Splash247

Earlier this year, SSY along with Arrow, Gibson Shipbrokers, Howe Robinson, and IFCHOR Galbraiths jointly introduced Ocean Recap – a purpose-built recap and charter party management platform designed to give the Clarksons-backed Sea platform more competition.

And that is just top of the iceberg, there are a lot more below water.

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We have come a long way in the last 50 years or so:

Advanced connectivity transforms the ‘Vessel as a Floating Office’ from...

From ships with no “connectivity” to ships that is controlled from the office, including watering the onboard vegi garden remotely:

“What we’ve started experimenting with at Synergy is growing our own food on the ships,” he said. “AI from the shore is controlling the water, the temperature, and the light. That’s something that’s completely impossible to do without AI through broadband.”

An anecdote from a time long past:
A bit over 50 years ago I got my first command. The ship that had only MF radio for “connectivity”.
On our 5-6 week trips from Singapore to East Indonesia v.v. we had “connectivity” with the Owner and Manager in Singapore only abt. day and a half sailing before arriving back in Singapore to alert them of our ETA and whatever return cargo I had managed to pick up.

That is the reverse of the “Vessel as a Floating Office” they are talking about now.
The “ship run from the ship”, not from the office ashore as envisaged here. .