Machine Learning

Silverstream Wins Innovate UK KTP Grant To Advance Machine Learning In Maritime

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Silverstream Technologies, the leading air lubrication manufacturer for the shipping industry, in collaboration with the University of Southampton, has been awarded an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) grant to advance machine learning in the maritime sector, the organisations have announced today.

The two-year partnership will see an Associate of the University of Southampton, secured under the programme, work with Silverstream’s Technical Team with the goal to advance machine...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/silverstream-wins-innovate-uk-ktp-grant-to-advance-machine-learning-in-maritime/

How machine learning improves the efficiency of freight operations

Just a few years ago, the state of the art in freight brokerage technology was software-assisted pricing and matching. A simple tool might take a base rate for a certain origin-destination pair and add a seasonality modifier based on historical data, then give a human broker a ranked list of the carriers most likely to service the freight. 

Then the phone calls would start, and often the broker would find out that the market had turned and that carriers weren’t available or weren’t willing to...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/how-machine-learning-improves-the-efficiency-of-freight-operations

European on-demand trucking platform Ontruck secures €17 million

European on-demand trucking platform Ontruck secures €17 million (Photo: Pexels)

European on-demand trucking platform Ontruck has raised an investment of €17 million, in a round led by OGCI Climate Investments (OGCICI), and saw participation from existing investors Cathay Innovation, Atomico, Idinvest Partners and Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures, with Endeavor Catalyst joining as a new investor.

Iñigo Juantegui, the CEO and co-founder of Ontruck, explained that Ontruck’s association with OGCI was a reaffirmation of the commitment both firms have to make road transportation...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/european-on-demand-trucking-platform-ontruck-secures-e17-million

Viaduct uses connected vehicle data to help OEMs

Viaduct machine learning

Viaduct, a machine learning startup that allows original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to glean insights from their connected vehicle data, announced that it has raised $11 million in Series A funding, led by Innovation Endeavors and joined by Exor Seeds and Box Group.

Based in Menlo Park, California, Viaduct gives OEMs a data-driven way to make vehicles safer, more reliable, and personalized, CEO and co-founder David Hallac told FreightWaves. The team’s machine learning software aggregates...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/viaduct-uses-connected-vehicle-data-to-help-oems

ABS boosts e-learning training courses for safe operations

ABS Group recently launched an e-learning training platform in order further develop educational tools and provide professional training courses to technical crewmembers around the global. In fact, through this new training initiative, ABS goals to boost shipping industry’s operational challenges.

Specifically, the platform will feature on-demand courses to augment classroom training in the practice field of Cyber Security, Risk Management, Asset Reliability, Compliance Management and Process...

https://safety4sea.com/abs-boosts-e-learning-training-courses-for-safe-operations/

How Machine Learning Can Solve the Sulphur Emission Problem?

According to a Ship Technology report, the GreenSteam COO Simon Whitford has showed how mitigating emissions to adhere to the sulphur cap regulation could be catalysed thanks to a new machine learning platform developed by the company.

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We hear more about how the technology can help cut fuel waste and emissions. The shipping industry is fraught with challenges. With the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 2020 regulation on sulphur emissions just months away from being...

http://mfame.guru/how-machine-learning-can-solve-the-sulphur-emission-problem/

Unifeeder, GreenSteam team up on fuel efficiency

Machine learning solutions provider GreenSteam and short sea operator Unifeeder announced they are expanding their partnership to deploy digital technology for reducing fuel consumption, in line withe industry’s ambitious targets on GHG emissions reduction.

While vessels are still considered one of the most environmentally friendly solutions for transporting goods, the great scale of the maritime industry adds significantly to air pollution.

In recent years, IMO’s MEPC has introduced a strategy...

https://safety4sea.com/unifeeder-greensteam-team-up-on-fuel-efficiency/

Algorithm Detects Climate-Altering Ship Tracks from Satellite Data

Ship tracks over the Pacific Ocean made visible by the clouds that form around the particles in a ship’s exhaust
  • Researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm to pinpoint ship tracks automatically in satellite imagery.
  • The researchers analyzed 1 year’s worth of nighttime observations obtained by the MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite.
  • Ship tracks look darker than regular clouds in the mid-wave infrared, they compared the difference between the two channels and looked for...

http://mfame.guru/algorithm-detects-climate-altering-ship-tracks-from-satellite-data/

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