artificial intelligence

BHP to use drones to improve its freight operations

International resources company BHP, announced that it will be using drones in its freight operations. The drones will conduct inspection of holds, while they will be tested to improve the safety, time and cost of ship draft readings.

The drones are still in the trial phase, BHP’s Vice President of Marketing Freight, Rashpal Bhatti said, but he believes that they have big potential as they have artificial intelligence that provides captains a digital view of their ship.

According to the company,...

https://safety4sea.com/bhp-to-use-drones-to-improve-its-freight-operations/

Maersk invests in AI freight booking

Maersk Growth, Maersk’s launchpad, invested in the digital freight broker Loadsmart, as it sees believes that integrations between ocean shipping and over-the-road services ‘can create incredible synergies’.

Loadsmart uses artificial intelligence to automate the truckload booking flow in the US. Through this platform, shippers can book a truck manually or integrate via an API to have a server-to-server booking with no human intervention.

Maersk’s launchpad, Maersk Growth, invested $21.6 million...

https://safety4sea.com/maersk-invests-in-ai-freight-booking/

South Korea invests in AI to boost shipbuilding competitiveness

As part of its efforts to upgrade cost competitiveness of the domestic shipbuilding industry, the South Korean government revealed plans to develop smart shipyards equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

As such, the government will begin a preliminary feasibility study of the Korean Smart Shipyard (K-Yard) project within 2018. The total budget of the project is estimated at 400 billion won (US$360.04 million). From this, 250 billion won (US$225.02 million) will source from the...

https://safety4sea.com/south-korea-invests-in-ai-to-boost-shipbuilding-competitiveness/

Ten technologies that will lead the way in the next five years

New technologies are becoming more and more part of our everyday life and of course of industry. One of these technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a megatrend and one of the things that the world will talk about for the next 20 years.

That was the opinion of Brian Burke, chief of research at Gartner, who analyzed the top 10 technology trends for 2019. Mr. Burke said that AI is going to be part of everything we do in technology.

Mr. Gartner also created a list of what he thinks they are...

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Shell to use AI to improve operational performance

Shell broadened its work with Microsoft to drive efficiencies across the company from drilling and extraction to employee empowerment and collaboration, as well as safety for its retail customers and employees.

Shell selected C3 IoT with Microsoft Azure as its artificial intelligence (AI) platform to enable digital transformation. Shell will replicate AI and machine learning applications across its upstream and downstream businesses.

Judson Althoff, executive vice president of Microsoft’s...

https://safety4sea.com/shell-to-use-ai-to-improve-operational-performance/

RobotAIsation: The future of container handling?

Despite the rapid onset of terminal automation, automated container terminals still account for only a small percentage of the 1,400 container terminals around the world. Meanwhile, the automotive industry is forging ahead at full speed with the development of autonomous cars, which will open up significant possibilities also for our industry . Simultaneously AI has become the number one focus area for the world’s ICT giants, so we are definitely at the start of a very interesting journey

Human...

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