Harren Group, a prominent German ship-owning and logistics specialist, has entered a key partnership with maritime technology pioneer Orca AI to embed AI-powered navigational safety and efficiency across its newbuild fleet, which includes heavy-lift vessels, multipurpose vessels, deck carriers, and bulkers. This move is a strategic step toward building a measurable and data-driven safety culture within the group.
Integration of AI-Powered Safety
The core of the collaboration involves integrating Orca AI’s cutting-edge situational awareness system into Harren Group’s new vessels, which are already equipped with ultra-efficient engine systems.
- Onboard Digital Lookout (SeaPod): The SeaPod provides the bridge team with real-time visual and thermal detection. By fusing live computer-vision data with existing navigational systems, it enhances situational awareness, helps identify risks earlier, and enables proactive measures to prevent close-quarters situations.
- Shore-Based Analytics (FleetView): The FleetView dashboard aggregates navigational event data, creating a continuous data loop between the ship’s bridge and the shore office. This provides measurable insight into bridge behavior, allowing fleet managers to conduct performance benchmarking, identify risk trends, and focus crew training efforts.
- Reduction of Incidents: The partnership directly targets a reduction in actual and close encounters and near-misses, a key operational KPI for Harren Group.
Measurable and Sustainable Operations
The partnership is centered on transforming safety from a reactive measure to a quantifiable, proactive management system.
- Data-Driven Safety Culture: Harren Group aims to align its crews and fleet managers around data, not assumptions, measuring navigational behavior in ways previously impossible. The recorded video and event data also support post-voyage reviews and continuous learning.
- Enhanced Efficiency and Sustainability: By enabling earlier risk prediction and reducing bridge workload, the Orca AI platform facilitates safer and more efficient navigation. This, in turn, contributes to lower fuel consumption, fewer incidents, and smarter decision-making, supporting the group’s sustainability goals.
- Empowering Crews and Shore Teams: This move ensures a transparent and measurable approach to safety, empowering both the onboard crews with enhanced situational awareness and the shore teams with actionable data insights.
This integration signifies Harren Group’s commitment to embedding AI technology into the “DNA of its fleet” and embracing innovation to protect the ocean and its personnel.
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Source: Ship Management International
