EU ETS allowances and FuelEU Maritime penalties are computed from voyage, fuel and cargo data. A manual or unreconciled MRV pipeline means a firm is mispricing a live liability.
The IMO’s Net-Zero Framework wasn’t rejected last autumn — it was adjourned. The extraordinary MEPC session reconvenes in October 2026, and the vote everyone stopped watching is back on the table. Here’s the one thing to sort before it does.
SMM Hamburg runs 1–4 September 2026. If your fleet IT lead walks the stands without three questions written down, they come home with brochures and no decisions. Here are the three to hand them before they fly.
MSC.428(98) told the industry to manage cyber risk. It never told anyone what “managed” actually looks like in practice — and the gap between a Safety Management System that mentions cyber risk and a fleet that could genuinely withstand and recover from a real incident is where most operators currently sit, comfortably, without realising the …
A vessel’s isolation used to be its own cyber defence — weeks at sea with no meaningful connectivity meant no meaningful remote attack surface, whatever the ship’s onboard systems actually looked like underneath. Low-earth-orbit satellite connectivity has quietly ended that protection for a huge share of the global fleet, and a great deal of maritime …
IACS UR E26 and E27 have applied to newbuild vessels since 1 July 2024, and by mid-2026 the first cohort of compliant ships is reaching its first cyber-relevant class survey. That survey is where most owners discover their real cyber-resilience posture doesn’t match what the paperwork claims — because two teams built two records that …
Ask most maintenance or procurement systems a simple question — “what replaced this part” — and watch how long the answer takes. If it takes longer than a lookup, the system doesn’t know what a part is. It knows what a part number is, which is a different and much weaker thing. Industrial parts taxonomy …
Since 1 July 2024, cyber resilience stopped being optional for new ships. IACS Unified Requirements E26 (Cyber Resilience of Ships) and E27 (Cyber Resilience of On-Board Systems and Equipment) apply to vessels contracted for construction on or after that date, and the class notation that verifies them is, for newbuilds, effectively mandatory — it is …
A crew management system holds some of the most sensitive personal data a shipping operator processes — passports, medical records, next-of-kin contacts, payroll and banking details, disciplinary history — for a workforce that’s genuinely global and frequently in transit. It’s rarely reviewed with the same technical rigour applied to commercial platforms or navigation systems, despite …
A shipping arbitration tribunal, in a case from October 2018, dismissed AIS data as unreliable evidence in a charter party dispute — despite AIS being an automated, technically generated data source that a technology leader might assume carries more evidentiary weight than a manually kept ship’s log. It didn’t. The specific wording of the charter …