AI is already delivering measurable gains across shipbuilding and vessel operations, according to industry leaders gathered for shipping’s annual tech confab. But fragmented data and incomplete digitalisation are preventing wider adoption. As investment pours into maritime AI, the sector’s biggest challenge may be organisational readiness rather than technology itself

Container shipping’s first rotor sail installation comes as developers, shipowners and technology providers argue wind-assisted propulsion has moved beyond proof of concept and is entering a new phase of commercial deployment

Anemoi is expanding rotor sail technology to the containership sector for the first time

DNV Maritime chief executive Cristina Saenz de Santa Maria has welcomed the growing orderbook in alternative-fuel tonnage. But the class society’s latest energy transition forecast shows little energy transition underway

The people who will design, license, build, crew, inspect, insure and respond to nuclear-powered commercial ships are too few, and providing the instructors, curricula and facilities to train them will take years, the US Maritime Administration was told

The UK maritime nuclear start-up will work on a regulatory framework, and on the vast ecosystem that would be needed to enable nuclear shipping

Bio-LNG could be a significant transition fuel for shipping, but only if the IMO allows for mass balancing in emissions accounting, according to the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping

They may not be as exciting as alternative fuels or as visible as wind sails, but marine coatings are just as important, if not more so, when it comes to reducing emissions from ships

There are six main risks currently impacting decision-making in the protection & indemnity sector

Slower growth but recovering imports (and relatively lower US tariffs for exporters) help see record throughput at Australia’s busiest port