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Kaiko Systems unveils KAI, a comprehensive maritime AI agent to automate the heavy workload of technical management teams

Kaiko Systems has launched KAI, an AI-driven maritime agent designed to optimize vessel health management by automating technical tasks for superintendents. KAI enhances productivity by analyzing ship images, detecting corrosion, and improving fleet performance.

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Norbulk Shipping announces fleet-wide rollout of Kaiko Systems' SIRE 2.0 self-assessment and PSC preparation software

Norbulk Shipping has successfully rolled out Kaiko Systems' SIRE 2.0 software on its fleet of 27 tankers, preparing for the September 2nd inspection launch. They plan to expand this to all 60 vessels, enhancing PSC preparation and operational efficiency.

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Kaiko Systems unveils KAI, a comprehensive maritime AI agent to automate the heavy workload of technical management teams

Kaiko Systems has launched KAI, an AI-driven maritime agent designed to optimize vessel health management by automating technical tasks for superintendents. KAI enhances productivity by analyzing ship images, detecting corrosion, and improving fleet performance.

news
Norbulk Shipping announces fleet-wide rollout of Kaiko Systems' SIRE 2.0 self-assessment and PSC preparation software

Norbulk Shipping has successfully rolled out Kaiko Systems' SIRE 2.0 software on its fleet of 27 tankers, preparing for the September 2nd inspection launch. They plan to expand this to all 60 vessels, enhancing PSC preparation and operational efficiency.

Data Management
Introducing: the Kaiko Systems Vessel Health Map

The Vessel Health Map is crucial for efficient vessel management. Kaiko Systems transforms complex data into clear insights, using color-coded visuals and 3D formats. This tool enhances transparency, supports data-driven decisions, and improves stakeholder communication, ensuring effective maintenance and safety compliance.

news
Engine Room Fire Safety: A Critical Review and How Kaiko Systems Can Help

The engine room is critical but hazardous. Effective fire safety involves maintaining steel separations, controlling oxygen, managing combustibles, and addressing ignition sources. Kaiko Systems helps to ensure these measures are met, enhancing safety and compliance ahead of USCG inspections.

news
Kaiko Systems and i.safe MOBILE Singapore announce strategic partnership to revolutionise ship inspections ahead of SIRE 2.0 implementation

Kaiko Systems teams up with i.safe MOBILE to enhance ship inspections with advanced AI and explosion-proof tablets, gearing up for SIRE 2.0.

news
Company Form Acknowledgements

We’re excited to announce the release of our company forms acknowledgement feature. It allows shore team members to easily acknowledge that they have reviewed checklists and forms completed by crew on board.

news
F. Laeisz will carry out ship inspections with Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems has announced the fleet rollout of Reederei F. Laeisz, a pioneering German shipping company with a 200-year history of progressiveness. This collaboration sees the rollout of Kaiko Systems' cutting-edge AI-powered software across Laeisz's 18-vessel fleet. The move aims to modernize maintenance processes, enhancing operational efficiency, and ensuring real-time fleet condition monitoring.

Operational Practices
Top 10 Safety Trends in the Shipping Industry

Navigating a sea of challenges from rising costs to cybersecurity, this article explores the top 10 safety trends shaping the shipping industry in 2023.

How Tos
Ensure PSC CIC On Fire Safety 2023 Readiness With Verified Data

Paris and Tokyo MoUs announced a fire safety Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) addressing onboard fire concerns. The 2023 CIC focuses on adherence and amplifying fire safety awareness, assessing key fire safety areas.

Data Management
Generative AI: An Easy Introduction & Its application in Shipping

As generative AI shapes the maritime industry's future, reliable data remains essential. The capability to gather, manage, and effectively utilize data will determine how we can maximize generative AI's potential.

How Tos
Riding the Wave: Transform Compliance and Operations with SIRE 2.0

SIRE 2.0, set to overhaul the maritime industry, places emphasis on digitization and human factors. It demands robust information sharing, broader vetting, and comprehensive vessel assessment.

Operational Practices
Mitigating Rising Hull and Machinery Insurance Expenses

Delve into the impacts of inflation on marine financial operations, discover the types of marine insurance, and how mitigating non-natural claims with proactive safety measures like Kaiko Systems is a solution.

Data Management
Introducing the AI Plausibility Checks and Enhanced Inspection Tours

Learn about how AI plausibility checks and enhanced inspection tours enable better data-driven decisions and improve maritime industry safety.

How Tos
Digitized Inspections Webinar Recap: Maximizing Value from Day One

Digitized inspection webinar summary, with emphasis on real-time insights, accurate vessel assessments, prompt report generation, seamless workflow integration, and an effective trial for successful adoption.

Operational Practices
AI-Enabled Corrosion Detection in the Maritime Industry

Empowering maritime technical management with AI corrosion detection. Discover how shipping companies can leverage AI to enhance safety and efficiency.

How Tos
DryBMS: Overview of the Highest Safety Standard for the Dry Bulk Sector

Introduced by INTERCARGO and RightShip in 2021, the Dry Bulk Management Standard (DryBMS) represents the latest step forward in ensuring safety and reducing risk within the dry bulk sector.

Operational Practices
Enhancing Port State Control Readiness with Digitization

Explore how digitization enhances Port State Control readiness, reducing human error and streamlining ship inspection and maintenance in the maritime industry.

Operational Practices
Blockchain in the Maritime Industry: TradeLens Case Analysis

Learn more about the current state of blockchain technology in the maritime industry and the lessons learned from the blockchain-based platform TradeLens.

news
HS Schiffahrts Group Digitizes Inspections & Reporting with Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems and HS Schiffahrts Group have partnered to further digitize the Group's technical management processes across its entire managed fleet. The solution will digitize routine safety inspections, visual hull and equipment inspections, as well as occasional reports

How Tos
SIRE 2.0 Webinar Recap: A guide for assessment preparation

This article is a webinar summary of the SIRE 2.0 self-assessment. The webinar outlined some key actions to take for tanker operators to ensure SIRE 2.0 readiness. These include ensuring accurate and complete pre-inspection data input, crew preparation and awareness, and utilizing vetting preparation tools

Operational Practices
Breaking Barriers: How Digitized Inspections are Changing Technical Management and Driving Competitive Advantage in Shipping

Discover how digitized inspections are changing technical management, boosting safety, accuracy, efficiency and empowering teams.

news
Introducing Company Forms: Remove double reporting work and surface findings automatically

Company Forms make it easy to identify duplications and eliminate double reporting, automatically surface results and reduce human error.

Data Management
Transforming Maritime Safety with Standardized Data Sets

Safety is the most substantial and critical issue for the maritime industry. Though regular maintenance is conducted, shipping incidents still occur. How does the lack of data reliability and standardization influence shipping safety? How will high-quality data enable proactivity in technical operations?

Operational Practices
Navigating the Cyber Seas: A Look at Maritime Cybersecurity

As the world becomes increasingly connected, the threat of cyber attacks on ships and shipping companies also increases. How to increase vessel cybersecurity and minimize cyber risks?

news
Maritime 2022 in Review - 10 most notable topics

In this year-in-review blog, we will take a look at some of the most notable topics in the maritime industry over the past year, highlighting the key themes and challenges that have shaped the industry in 2022. 

Operational Practices
SIRE 2.0 Phased Transition Plan

The Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) has announced that its upcoming regime SIRE 2.0 (Ship Inspection Report Programme) will be launched in the maritime industry in a phased approach.

Operational Practices
Accelerate technical efficiency and risk prevention with seafarer digitization

Digitalization has multi-level impacts on shipping companies’ operations. It not only can substantially optimize costs in vessel maintenance but also improve operational performance.

news
C Transport Maritime digitizes onboard technical operations with Kaiko Systems

C Transport Maritime rolls out Kaiko Systems' solution on their fleet of 30 vessels. Kaiko Systems solidifies CTM’s safety regime and makes manual technical operations more efficient and reliable.

Operational Practices
How to get the most out of routine inspections in shipping

Digitization helped to improve many aspects of ship operations, but one of the fundamental technical operations - ship inspections and maintenance - remains primitive.

Operational Practices
Ship Inspection: Expectation & Reality

Regular inspections of the ship and its equipment are required to minimize the risks associated with factors such as machinery damage or failure as well as fire or explosion, which account for over 50% of incidents worldwide.

news
Digitizing maritime technical operations: Our €2M seed round and what's next

This funding will propel our company growth forward, and enable us to serve shipping companies with stronger empowerment.

news
Kaiko Systems raises €2M seed round to digitize frontline work in ocean shipping

Since launching the product in 2021, Kaiko Systems has won multiple reputable customers such as Columbia Shipmanagement, Marlow Navigation, USC Barnkrug, and CTM.

How Tos
5 Common Challenges Of Digitizing Technical Operations, And How To Overcome Them

Even the ones that have successfully implemented digitalization will tell you that there are new hurdles in planning and execution at each phase.

news
Kaiko Systems and Hanseaticsoft join forces to enable data plausibility checks

The strengthened collaboration will drastically reduce the time crews spend on double entry and desktop work, and allows technical teams to reduce the effort they spend on data inquiry and restructuring.

How Tos
SIRE 2.0: Overview and Implications

SIRE 2.0 will provide more accurate information to enable OCIMF members and programme recipients to make judgements on the quality and the likely future performance of a vessel. It is becoming operational on September 2, 2024.

How Tos
There Is No 80/20 in Product

80/20 should not be used on HOW to deliver the product. Instead, it should be used to find out WHAT to develop (breadth of options), and then get the features 100% right.

news
Innovation strategies in the maritime industry, featured by Splash

Innovation and digitization are far more than simply an additional source of revenue for the maritime industry. There are various strategies that companies utilize to seek digital transformation. We will compare four common strategies and look at how some of the well established shipping companies leverage them.

news
Superintendents express 100% trust in the data collected through Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems addresses the challenges of data verification, and offload burdens for both crews and the shore team. 

Data Management
Data analytics for maritime safety management

By understanding the patterns and trends in data, maritime organizations not only can make better decisions about safety management but also create a data-driven culture that can proactively identify and address potential risks.

How Tos
Misconceptions about digitization with seafarers

There is no doubt that the pandemic has made the shipping industry realize the importance of seafarers. But, the need for digitization for seafarers tends to be overlooked due to various misconceptions.

How Tos
How ship owners reduce risk through remote pre-purchase inspections

Ship S&P inspection is one of the most exhaustive types of inspections. Technological developments and digital transformation have brought a more flexible approach of conducting S&P inspections without delaying vessel's operations

Operational Practices
Artificial intelligence in maritime safety management

Maritime safety and technical management are often challenged by data reliability and complexity, as well as time urgency. Could digital solutions that incorporate artificial intelligence tools help mitigate these difficulties?

news
Maritime 2021 Year in Review: 10 key events visualized

As the year draws to a close, it is a great opportunity to take a look back at the series of events the maritime industry has experienced and look ahead to what's to come.

How Tos
"The 2nd best time to plant a tree is now" - Behind the scenes with Fabian Becker

In the past 10 years, Fabian Becker organized startup events where successful startups were formed, helped grow a young shipping company to a fleet of 15 vessels, and later helped build the maritime venture builder.

Operational Practices
What are Safety-I and Safety-II? How can technology bridge the gap?

Safety-I investigates why things go wrong. Safety-II investigates why things go right. Data is essential for any safety plan to be fully functional.

Operational Practices
Maritime 4.0: Practices, challenges and opportunities

The purpose of Maritime 4.0 includes but is not limited to improving the lifecycle of vessels, facilitating the delivery of greater performance, lowering ownership cost, increasing safety and reliability

Operational Practices
From predictive maintenance to human element empowerment

Optimization is leading the maritime tech direction. Human empowerment will be a fundamental driver for efficiency and margin gains. 

Operational Practices
A tech-driven maritime needs to be human-centered

Human-centered design (HCD) is a design concept that takes into consideration human purposes, needs, skill, creativity, and potential.

Data Management
The Key to Insightful Inspections Part 1: Data Standardization

Data standardization is the process of converting data to a common format so that it’s possible for users to analyze it easily.

Data Management
The Key to Insightful Inspections Part 2: Data Verification

Only data that reflect real-world situations, useful insights can be generated. This makes data verification a crucial step to vessel health management.

How Tos
Factor analysis between human error and machinery maintenance activities

Human errors don't only come from humans. External factors like environment and operational processes can have a big impact on human factors too.

Data Management
The Key To Insightful Safety Inspections Part 3: Seamless & Improved Workflow

Inspection planning, conducting, and reporting can be done on one platform with a limited internet connection.

Data Management
The Key To Insightful Safety Inspections Part 4: Holistic Data Management

Proactive maritime safety management is only possible when data is managed in a unified approach.

Operational Practices
Streamlined and Proactive Maritime Asset Management

Ship crews are one of the largest factors that define a vessel’s operational performance, and therefore investing in technology that empowers them can drive a large RoI.

Data Management
How operational intelligence makes data smart in the maritime industry

Operational Intelligence converts big data into smart data. It allows companies to access performance metrics in real-time, analyze problems, and show future predictions.

How Tos
How to navigate through the ocean of dark data

The growing amount of data is creating a nightmare for companies. In some cases, too much data can even be a major roadblock for digital transformation.

Data Management
Computer vision in vessel health management

In the maritime industry, computer vision can be a powerful solution for inspection, localization, events detection, and information extraction, etc.

Data Management
Maritime data analytics & their application in safety management

Facts and figures are meaningless if actionable insights cannot be generated. Read the blog to learn about 4 primary types of data analytics.

Data Management
Introducing: the Kaiko Systems Vessel Health Map

The Vessel Health Map is crucial for efficient vessel management. Kaiko Systems transforms complex data into clear insights, using color-coded visuals and 3D formats. This tool enhances transparency, supports data-driven decisions, and improves stakeholder communication, ensuring effective maintenance and safety compliance.

Data Management
Generative AI: An Easy Introduction & Its application in Shipping

As generative AI shapes the maritime industry's future, reliable data remains essential. The capability to gather, manage, and effectively utilize data will determine how we can maximize generative AI's potential.

Data Management
Introducing the AI Plausibility Checks and Enhanced Inspection Tours

Learn about how AI plausibility checks and enhanced inspection tours enable better data-driven decisions and improve maritime industry safety.

Data Management
Transforming Maritime Safety with Standardized Data Sets

Safety is the most substantial and critical issue for the maritime industry. Though regular maintenance is conducted, shipping incidents still occur. How does the lack of data reliability and standardization influence shipping safety? How will high-quality data enable proactivity in technical operations?

Data Management
Data analytics for maritime safety management

By understanding the patterns and trends in data, maritime organizations not only can make better decisions about safety management but also create a data-driven culture that can proactively identify and address potential risks.

Data Management
The Key to Insightful Inspections Part 1: Data Standardization

Data standardization is the process of converting data to a common format so that it’s possible for users to analyze it easily.

Data Management
The Key to Insightful Inspections Part 2: Data Verification

Only data that reflect real-world situations, useful insights can be generated. This makes data verification a crucial step to vessel health management.

Data Management
The Key To Insightful Safety Inspections Part 3: Seamless & Improved Workflow

Inspection planning, conducting, and reporting can be done on one platform with a limited internet connection.

Data Management
The Key To Insightful Safety Inspections Part 4: Holistic Data Management

Proactive maritime safety management is only possible when data is managed in a unified approach.

Data Management
How operational intelligence makes data smart in the maritime industry

Operational Intelligence converts big data into smart data. It allows companies to access performance metrics in real-time, analyze problems, and show future predictions.

Data Management
Computer vision in vessel health management

In the maritime industry, computer vision can be a powerful solution for inspection, localization, events detection, and information extraction, etc.

Data Management
Maritime data analytics & their application in safety management

Facts and figures are meaningless if actionable insights cannot be generated. Read the blog to learn about 4 primary types of data analytics.

Operational Practices
Top 10 Safety Trends in the Shipping Industry

Navigating a sea of challenges from rising costs to cybersecurity, this article explores the top 10 safety trends shaping the shipping industry in 2023.

Operational Practices
Mitigating Rising Hull and Machinery Insurance Expenses

Delve into the impacts of inflation on marine financial operations, discover the types of marine insurance, and how mitigating non-natural claims with proactive safety measures like Kaiko Systems is a solution.

Operational Practices
AI-Enabled Corrosion Detection in the Maritime Industry

Empowering maritime technical management with AI corrosion detection. Discover how shipping companies can leverage AI to enhance safety and efficiency.

Operational Practices
Enhancing Port State Control Readiness with Digitization

Explore how digitization enhances Port State Control readiness, reducing human error and streamlining ship inspection and maintenance in the maritime industry.

Operational Practices
Blockchain in the Maritime Industry: TradeLens Case Analysis

Learn more about the current state of blockchain technology in the maritime industry and the lessons learned from the blockchain-based platform TradeLens.

Operational Practices
Breaking Barriers: How Digitized Inspections are Changing Technical Management and Driving Competitive Advantage in Shipping

Discover how digitized inspections are changing technical management, boosting safety, accuracy, efficiency and empowering teams.

Operational Practices
Navigating the Cyber Seas: A Look at Maritime Cybersecurity

As the world becomes increasingly connected, the threat of cyber attacks on ships and shipping companies also increases. How to increase vessel cybersecurity and minimize cyber risks?

Operational Practices
SIRE 2.0 Phased Transition Plan

The Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) has announced that its upcoming regime SIRE 2.0 (Ship Inspection Report Programme) will be launched in the maritime industry in a phased approach.

Operational Practices
Accelerate technical efficiency and risk prevention with seafarer digitization

Digitalization has multi-level impacts on shipping companies’ operations. It not only can substantially optimize costs in vessel maintenance but also improve operational performance.

Operational Practices
How to get the most out of routine inspections in shipping

Digitization helped to improve many aspects of ship operations, but one of the fundamental technical operations - ship inspections and maintenance - remains primitive.

Operational Practices
Ship Inspection: Expectation & Reality

Regular inspections of the ship and its equipment are required to minimize the risks associated with factors such as machinery damage or failure as well as fire or explosion, which account for over 50% of incidents worldwide.

Operational Practices
Artificial intelligence in maritime safety management

Maritime safety and technical management are often challenged by data reliability and complexity, as well as time urgency. Could digital solutions that incorporate artificial intelligence tools help mitigate these difficulties?

Operational Practices
What are Safety-I and Safety-II? How can technology bridge the gap?

Safety-I investigates why things go wrong. Safety-II investigates why things go right. Data is essential for any safety plan to be fully functional.

Operational Practices
Maritime 4.0: Practices, challenges and opportunities

The purpose of Maritime 4.0 includes but is not limited to improving the lifecycle of vessels, facilitating the delivery of greater performance, lowering ownership cost, increasing safety and reliability

Operational Practices
From predictive maintenance to human element empowerment

Optimization is leading the maritime tech direction. Human empowerment will be a fundamental driver for efficiency and margin gains. 

Operational Practices
A tech-driven maritime needs to be human-centered

Human-centered design (HCD) is a design concept that takes into consideration human purposes, needs, skill, creativity, and potential.

Operational Practices
Streamlined and Proactive Maritime Asset Management

Ship crews are one of the largest factors that define a vessel’s operational performance, and therefore investing in technology that empowers them can drive a large RoI.

How Tos
Ensure PSC CIC On Fire Safety 2023 Readiness With Verified Data

Paris and Tokyo MoUs announced a fire safety Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) addressing onboard fire concerns. The 2023 CIC focuses on adherence and amplifying fire safety awareness, assessing key fire safety areas.

How Tos
Riding the Wave: Transform Compliance and Operations with SIRE 2.0

SIRE 2.0, set to overhaul the maritime industry, places emphasis on digitization and human factors. It demands robust information sharing, broader vetting, and comprehensive vessel assessment.

How Tos
Digitized Inspections Webinar Recap: Maximizing Value from Day One

Digitized inspection webinar summary, with emphasis on real-time insights, accurate vessel assessments, prompt report generation, seamless workflow integration, and an effective trial for successful adoption.

How Tos
DryBMS: Overview of the Highest Safety Standard for the Dry Bulk Sector

Introduced by INTERCARGO and RightShip in 2021, the Dry Bulk Management Standard (DryBMS) represents the latest step forward in ensuring safety and reducing risk within the dry bulk sector.

How Tos
SIRE 2.0 Webinar Recap: A guide for assessment preparation

This article is a webinar summary of the SIRE 2.0 self-assessment. The webinar outlined some key actions to take for tanker operators to ensure SIRE 2.0 readiness. These include ensuring accurate and complete pre-inspection data input, crew preparation and awareness, and utilizing vetting preparation tools

How Tos
5 Common Challenges Of Digitizing Technical Operations, And How To Overcome Them

Even the ones that have successfully implemented digitalization will tell you that there are new hurdles in planning and execution at each phase.

How Tos
SIRE 2.0: Overview and Implications

SIRE 2.0 will provide more accurate information to enable OCIMF members and programme recipients to make judgements on the quality and the likely future performance of a vessel. It is becoming operational on September 2, 2024.

How Tos
There Is No 80/20 in Product

80/20 should not be used on HOW to deliver the product. Instead, it should be used to find out WHAT to develop (breadth of options), and then get the features 100% right.

How Tos
Misconceptions about digitization with seafarers

There is no doubt that the pandemic has made the shipping industry realize the importance of seafarers. But, the need for digitization for seafarers tends to be overlooked due to various misconceptions.

How Tos
How ship owners reduce risk through remote pre-purchase inspections

Ship S&P inspection is one of the most exhaustive types of inspections. Technological developments and digital transformation have brought a more flexible approach of conducting S&P inspections without delaying vessel's operations

How Tos
"The 2nd best time to plant a tree is now" - Behind the scenes with Fabian Becker

In the past 10 years, Fabian Becker organized startup events where successful startups were formed, helped grow a young shipping company to a fleet of 15 vessels, and later helped build the maritime venture builder.

How Tos
Factor analysis between human error and machinery maintenance activities

Human errors don't only come from humans. External factors like environment and operational processes can have a big impact on human factors too.

How Tos
How to navigate through the ocean of dark data

The growing amount of data is creating a nightmare for companies. In some cases, too much data can even be a major roadblock for digital transformation.

news
Kaiko Systems unveils KAI, a comprehensive maritime AI agent to automate the heavy workload of technical management teams

Kaiko Systems has launched KAI, an AI-driven maritime agent designed to optimize vessel health management by automating technical tasks for superintendents. KAI enhances productivity by analyzing ship images, detecting corrosion, and improving fleet performance.

news
Norbulk Shipping announces fleet-wide rollout of Kaiko Systems' SIRE 2.0 self-assessment and PSC preparation software

Norbulk Shipping has successfully rolled out Kaiko Systems' SIRE 2.0 software on its fleet of 27 tankers, preparing for the September 2nd inspection launch. They plan to expand this to all 60 vessels, enhancing PSC preparation and operational efficiency.

news
Engine Room Fire Safety: A Critical Review and How Kaiko Systems Can Help

The engine room is critical but hazardous. Effective fire safety involves maintaining steel separations, controlling oxygen, managing combustibles, and addressing ignition sources. Kaiko Systems helps to ensure these measures are met, enhancing safety and compliance ahead of USCG inspections.

news
Kaiko Systems and i.safe MOBILE Singapore announce strategic partnership to revolutionise ship inspections ahead of SIRE 2.0 implementation

Kaiko Systems teams up with i.safe MOBILE to enhance ship inspections with advanced AI and explosion-proof tablets, gearing up for SIRE 2.0.

news
Company Form Acknowledgements

We’re excited to announce the release of our company forms acknowledgement feature. It allows shore team members to easily acknowledge that they have reviewed checklists and forms completed by crew on board.

news
F. Laeisz will carry out ship inspections with Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems has announced the fleet rollout of Reederei F. Laeisz, a pioneering German shipping company with a 200-year history of progressiveness. This collaboration sees the rollout of Kaiko Systems' cutting-edge AI-powered software across Laeisz's 18-vessel fleet. The move aims to modernize maintenance processes, enhancing operational efficiency, and ensuring real-time fleet condition monitoring.

news
HS Schiffahrts Group Digitizes Inspections & Reporting with Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems and HS Schiffahrts Group have partnered to further digitize the Group's technical management processes across its entire managed fleet. The solution will digitize routine safety inspections, visual hull and equipment inspections, as well as occasional reports

news
Introducing Company Forms: Remove double reporting work and surface findings automatically

Company Forms make it easy to identify duplications and eliminate double reporting, automatically surface results and reduce human error.

news
Maritime 2022 in Review - 10 most notable topics

In this year-in-review blog, we will take a look at some of the most notable topics in the maritime industry over the past year, highlighting the key themes and challenges that have shaped the industry in 2022. 

news
C Transport Maritime digitizes onboard technical operations with Kaiko Systems

C Transport Maritime rolls out Kaiko Systems' solution on their fleet of 30 vessels. Kaiko Systems solidifies CTM’s safety regime and makes manual technical operations more efficient and reliable.

news
Digitizing maritime technical operations: Our €2M seed round and what's next

This funding will propel our company growth forward, and enable us to serve shipping companies with stronger empowerment.

news
Kaiko Systems raises €2M seed round to digitize frontline work in ocean shipping

Since launching the product in 2021, Kaiko Systems has won multiple reputable customers such as Columbia Shipmanagement, Marlow Navigation, USC Barnkrug, and CTM.

news
Kaiko Systems and Hanseaticsoft join forces to enable data plausibility checks

The strengthened collaboration will drastically reduce the time crews spend on double entry and desktop work, and allows technical teams to reduce the effort they spend on data inquiry and restructuring.

news
Innovation strategies in the maritime industry, featured by Splash

Innovation and digitization are far more than simply an additional source of revenue for the maritime industry. There are various strategies that companies utilize to seek digital transformation. We will compare four common strategies and look at how some of the well established shipping companies leverage them.

news
Superintendents express 100% trust in the data collected through Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems addresses the challenges of data verification, and offload burdens for both crews and the shore team. 

news
Maritime 2021 Year in Review: 10 key events visualized

As the year draws to a close, it is a great opportunity to take a look back at the series of events the maritime industry has experienced and look ahead to what's to come.

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Nord/LB partnered with Kaiko Systems to conduct remote Vessel inspections

The Remote Self Assessment brought transparency, flexibility, and efficiency to the condition surveys. It was possible to conduct the survey during the voyage of the vessel by the crew members.
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Preparing Efficiently For SIRE 2.0: Organising Your Teams In Advance

The panel discusses key issues such as the Pre-Inspection Questionnaire and will ask pertinent questions such as what is required and how companies can manage this process effectively. Important issues such as the provision of vessel photographs and how the crew can prepare themselves for a SIRE 2.0 inspection will also be debated, and panellists will be asked how they believe technology can help in the future to prepare vessels for the inspection.
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Kaiko Systems unveils KAI, a comprehensive maritime AI agent to automate the heavy workload of technical management teams

Kaiko Systems has launched KAI, an AI-driven maritime agent designed to optimize vessel health management by automating technical tasks for superintendents. KAI enhances productivity by analyzing ship images, detecting corrosion, and improving fleet performance.

Norbulk Shipping announces fleet-wide rollout of Kaiko Systems' SIRE 2.0 self-assessment and PSC preparation software

Norbulk Shipping has successfully rolled out Kaiko Systems' SIRE 2.0 software on its fleet of 27 tankers, preparing for the September 2nd inspection launch. They plan to expand this to all 60 vessels, enhancing PSC preparation and operational efficiency.

Introducing: the Kaiko Systems Vessel Health Map

The Vessel Health Map is crucial for efficient vessel management. Kaiko Systems transforms complex data into clear insights, using color-coded visuals and 3D formats. This tool enhances transparency, supports data-driven decisions, and improves stakeholder communication, ensuring effective maintenance and safety compliance.

Engine Room Fire Safety: A Critical Review and How Kaiko Systems Can Help

The engine room is critical but hazardous. Effective fire safety involves maintaining steel separations, controlling oxygen, managing combustibles, and addressing ignition sources. Kaiko Systems helps to ensure these measures are met, enhancing safety and compliance ahead of USCG inspections.

Kaiko Systems and i.safe MOBILE Singapore announce strategic partnership to revolutionise ship inspections ahead of SIRE 2.0 implementation

Kaiko Systems teams up with i.safe MOBILE to enhance ship inspections with advanced AI and explosion-proof tablets, gearing up for SIRE 2.0.

Company Form Acknowledgements

We’re excited to announce the release of our company forms acknowledgement feature. It allows shore team members to easily acknowledge that they have reviewed checklists and forms completed by crew on board.

F. Laeisz will carry out ship inspections with Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems has announced the fleet rollout of Reederei F. Laeisz, a pioneering German shipping company with a 200-year history of progressiveness. This collaboration sees the rollout of Kaiko Systems' cutting-edge AI-powered software across Laeisz's 18-vessel fleet. The move aims to modernize maintenance processes, enhancing operational efficiency, and ensuring real-time fleet condition monitoring.

Top 10 Safety Trends in the Shipping Industry

Navigating a sea of challenges from rising costs to cybersecurity, this article explores the top 10 safety trends shaping the shipping industry in 2023.

Ensure PSC CIC On Fire Safety 2023 Readiness With Verified Data

Paris and Tokyo MoUs announced a fire safety Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) addressing onboard fire concerns. The 2023 CIC focuses on adherence and amplifying fire safety awareness, assessing key fire safety areas.

Generative AI: An Easy Introduction & Its application in Shipping

As generative AI shapes the maritime industry's future, reliable data remains essential. The capability to gather, manage, and effectively utilize data will determine how we can maximize generative AI's potential.

Riding the Wave: Transform Compliance and Operations with SIRE 2.0

SIRE 2.0, set to overhaul the maritime industry, places emphasis on digitization and human factors. It demands robust information sharing, broader vetting, and comprehensive vessel assessment.

Mitigating Rising Hull and Machinery Insurance Expenses

Delve into the impacts of inflation on marine financial operations, discover the types of marine insurance, and how mitigating non-natural claims with proactive safety measures like Kaiko Systems is a solution.

Introducing the AI Plausibility Checks and Enhanced Inspection Tours

Learn about how AI plausibility checks and enhanced inspection tours enable better data-driven decisions and improve maritime industry safety.

Digitized Inspections Webinar Recap: Maximizing Value from Day One

Digitized inspection webinar summary, with emphasis on real-time insights, accurate vessel assessments, prompt report generation, seamless workflow integration, and an effective trial for successful adoption.

AI-Enabled Corrosion Detection in the Maritime Industry

Empowering maritime technical management with AI corrosion detection. Discover how shipping companies can leverage AI to enhance safety and efficiency.

DryBMS: Overview of the Highest Safety Standard for the Dry Bulk Sector

Introduced by INTERCARGO and RightShip in 2021, the Dry Bulk Management Standard (DryBMS) represents the latest step forward in ensuring safety and reducing risk within the dry bulk sector.

Enhancing Port State Control Readiness with Digitization

Explore how digitization enhances Port State Control readiness, reducing human error and streamlining ship inspection and maintenance in the maritime industry.

Blockchain in the Maritime Industry: TradeLens Case Analysis

Learn more about the current state of blockchain technology in the maritime industry and the lessons learned from the blockchain-based platform TradeLens.

HS Schiffahrts Group Digitizes Inspections & Reporting with Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems and HS Schiffahrts Group have partnered to further digitize the Group's technical management processes across its entire managed fleet. The solution will digitize routine safety inspections, visual hull and equipment inspections, as well as occasional reports

SIRE 2.0 Webinar Recap: A guide for assessment preparation

This article is a webinar summary of the SIRE 2.0 self-assessment. The webinar outlined some key actions to take for tanker operators to ensure SIRE 2.0 readiness. These include ensuring accurate and complete pre-inspection data input, crew preparation and awareness, and utilizing vetting preparation tools

Breaking Barriers: How Digitized Inspections are Changing Technical Management and Driving Competitive Advantage in Shipping

Discover how digitized inspections are changing technical management, boosting safety, accuracy, efficiency and empowering teams.

Introducing Company Forms: Remove double reporting work and surface findings automatically

Company Forms make it easy to identify duplications and eliminate double reporting, automatically surface results and reduce human error.

Transforming Maritime Safety with Standardized Data Sets

Safety is the most substantial and critical issue for the maritime industry. Though regular maintenance is conducted, shipping incidents still occur. How does the lack of data reliability and standardization influence shipping safety? How will high-quality data enable proactivity in technical operations?

Navigating the Cyber Seas: A Look at Maritime Cybersecurity

As the world becomes increasingly connected, the threat of cyber attacks on ships and shipping companies also increases. How to increase vessel cybersecurity and minimize cyber risks?

Maritime 2022 in Review - 10 most notable topics

In this year-in-review blog, we will take a look at some of the most notable topics in the maritime industry over the past year, highlighting the key themes and challenges that have shaped the industry in 2022. 

SIRE 2.0 Phased Transition Plan

The Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) has announced that its upcoming regime SIRE 2.0 (Ship Inspection Report Programme) will be launched in the maritime industry in a phased approach.

Accelerate technical efficiency and risk prevention with seafarer digitization

Digitalization has multi-level impacts on shipping companies’ operations. It not only can substantially optimize costs in vessel maintenance but also improve operational performance.

C Transport Maritime digitizes onboard technical operations with Kaiko Systems

C Transport Maritime rolls out Kaiko Systems' solution on their fleet of 30 vessels. Kaiko Systems solidifies CTM’s safety regime and makes manual technical operations more efficient and reliable.

How to get the most out of routine inspections in shipping

Digitization helped to improve many aspects of ship operations, but one of the fundamental technical operations - ship inspections and maintenance - remains primitive.

Ship Inspection: Expectation & Reality

Regular inspections of the ship and its equipment are required to minimize the risks associated with factors such as machinery damage or failure as well as fire or explosion, which account for over 50% of incidents worldwide.

Digitizing maritime technical operations: Our €2M seed round and what's next

This funding will propel our company growth forward, and enable us to serve shipping companies with stronger empowerment.

Kaiko Systems raises €2M seed round to digitize frontline work in ocean shipping

Since launching the product in 2021, Kaiko Systems has won multiple reputable customers such as Columbia Shipmanagement, Marlow Navigation, USC Barnkrug, and CTM.

5 Common Challenges Of Digitizing Technical Operations, And How To Overcome Them

Even the ones that have successfully implemented digitalization will tell you that there are new hurdles in planning and execution at each phase.

Kaiko Systems and Hanseaticsoft join forces to enable data plausibility checks

The strengthened collaboration will drastically reduce the time crews spend on double entry and desktop work, and allows technical teams to reduce the effort they spend on data inquiry and restructuring.

SIRE 2.0: Overview and Implications

SIRE 2.0 will provide more accurate information to enable OCIMF members and programme recipients to make judgements on the quality and the likely future performance of a vessel. It is becoming operational on September 2, 2024.

There Is No 80/20 in Product

80/20 should not be used on HOW to deliver the product. Instead, it should be used to find out WHAT to develop (breadth of options), and then get the features 100% right.

Innovation strategies in the maritime industry, featured by Splash

Innovation and digitization are far more than simply an additional source of revenue for the maritime industry. There are various strategies that companies utilize to seek digital transformation. We will compare four common strategies and look at how some of the well established shipping companies leverage them.

Superintendents express 100% trust in the data collected through Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems addresses the challenges of data verification, and offload burdens for both crews and the shore team. 

Data analytics for maritime safety management

By understanding the patterns and trends in data, maritime organizations not only can make better decisions about safety management but also create a data-driven culture that can proactively identify and address potential risks.

Misconceptions about digitization with seafarers

There is no doubt that the pandemic has made the shipping industry realize the importance of seafarers. But, the need for digitization for seafarers tends to be overlooked due to various misconceptions.

How ship owners reduce risk through remote pre-purchase inspections

Ship S&P inspection is one of the most exhaustive types of inspections. Technological developments and digital transformation have brought a more flexible approach of conducting S&P inspections without delaying vessel's operations

Artificial intelligence in maritime safety management

Maritime safety and technical management are often challenged by data reliability and complexity, as well as time urgency. Could digital solutions that incorporate artificial intelligence tools help mitigate these difficulties?

Maritime 2021 Year in Review: 10 key events visualized

As the year draws to a close, it is a great opportunity to take a look back at the series of events the maritime industry has experienced and look ahead to what's to come.

"The 2nd best time to plant a tree is now" - Behind the scenes with Fabian Becker

In the past 10 years, Fabian Becker organized startup events where successful startups were formed, helped grow a young shipping company to a fleet of 15 vessels, and later helped build the maritime venture builder.

What are Safety-I and Safety-II? How can technology bridge the gap?

Safety-I investigates why things go wrong. Safety-II investigates why things go right. Data is essential for any safety plan to be fully functional.

Maritime 4.0: Practices, challenges and opportunities

The purpose of Maritime 4.0 includes but is not limited to improving the lifecycle of vessels, facilitating the delivery of greater performance, lowering ownership cost, increasing safety and reliability

From predictive maintenance to human element empowerment

Optimization is leading the maritime tech direction. Human empowerment will be a fundamental driver for efficiency and margin gains. 

A tech-driven maritime needs to be human-centered

Human-centered design (HCD) is a design concept that takes into consideration human purposes, needs, skill, creativity, and potential.

The Key to Insightful Inspections Part 1: Data Standardization

Data standardization is the process of converting data to a common format so that it’s possible for users to analyze it easily.

The Key to Insightful Inspections Part 2: Data Verification

Only data that reflect real-world situations, useful insights can be generated. This makes data verification a crucial step to vessel health management.

Factor analysis between human error and machinery maintenance activities

Human errors don't only come from humans. External factors like environment and operational processes can have a big impact on human factors too.

The Key To Insightful Safety Inspections Part 3: Seamless & Improved Workflow

Inspection planning, conducting, and reporting can be done on one platform with a limited internet connection.

The Key To Insightful Safety Inspections Part 4: Holistic Data Management

Proactive maritime safety management is only possible when data is managed in a unified approach.

Streamlined and Proactive Maritime Asset Management

Ship crews are one of the largest factors that define a vessel’s operational performance, and therefore investing in technology that empowers them can drive a large RoI.

How operational intelligence makes data smart in the maritime industry

Operational Intelligence converts big data into smart data. It allows companies to access performance metrics in real-time, analyze problems, and show future predictions.

How to navigate through the ocean of dark data

The growing amount of data is creating a nightmare for companies. In some cases, too much data can even be a major roadblock for digital transformation.

Computer vision in vessel health management

In the maritime industry, computer vision can be a powerful solution for inspection, localization, events detection, and information extraction, etc.

Maritime data analytics & their application in safety management

Facts and figures are meaningless if actionable insights cannot be generated. Read the blog to learn about 4 primary types of data analytics.

Maritime Data Management

Kaiko Systems unveils KAI, a comprehensive maritime AI agent to automate the heavy workload of technical management teams

Kaiko Systems has launched KAI, an AI-driven maritime agent designed to optimize vessel health management by automating technical tasks for superintendents. KAI enhances productivity by analyzing ship images, detecting corrosion, and improving fleet performance.

Norbulk Shipping announces fleet-wide rollout of Kaiko Systems' SIRE 2.0 self-assessment and PSC preparation software

Norbulk Shipping has successfully rolled out Kaiko Systems' SIRE 2.0 software on its fleet of 27 tankers, preparing for the September 2nd inspection launch. They plan to expand this to all 60 vessels, enhancing PSC preparation and operational efficiency.

Introducing: the Kaiko Systems Vessel Health Map

The Vessel Health Map is crucial for efficient vessel management. Kaiko Systems transforms complex data into clear insights, using color-coded visuals and 3D formats. This tool enhances transparency, supports data-driven decisions, and improves stakeholder communication, ensuring effective maintenance and safety compliance.

Engine Room Fire Safety: A Critical Review and How Kaiko Systems Can Help

The engine room is critical but hazardous. Effective fire safety involves maintaining steel separations, controlling oxygen, managing combustibles, and addressing ignition sources. Kaiko Systems helps to ensure these measures are met, enhancing safety and compliance ahead of USCG inspections.

Kaiko Systems and i.safe MOBILE Singapore announce strategic partnership to revolutionise ship inspections ahead of SIRE 2.0 implementation

Kaiko Systems teams up with i.safe MOBILE to enhance ship inspections with advanced AI and explosion-proof tablets, gearing up for SIRE 2.0.

Company Form Acknowledgements

We’re excited to announce the release of our company forms acknowledgement feature. It allows shore team members to easily acknowledge that they have reviewed checklists and forms completed by crew on board.

F. Laeisz will carry out ship inspections with Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems has announced the fleet rollout of Reederei F. Laeisz, a pioneering German shipping company with a 200-year history of progressiveness. This collaboration sees the rollout of Kaiko Systems' cutting-edge AI-powered software across Laeisz's 18-vessel fleet. The move aims to modernize maintenance processes, enhancing operational efficiency, and ensuring real-time fleet condition monitoring.

Top 10 Safety Trends in the Shipping Industry

Navigating a sea of challenges from rising costs to cybersecurity, this article explores the top 10 safety trends shaping the shipping industry in 2023.

Ensure PSC CIC On Fire Safety 2023 Readiness With Verified Data

Paris and Tokyo MoUs announced a fire safety Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) addressing onboard fire concerns. The 2023 CIC focuses on adherence and amplifying fire safety awareness, assessing key fire safety areas.

Generative AI: An Easy Introduction & Its application in Shipping

As generative AI shapes the maritime industry's future, reliable data remains essential. The capability to gather, manage, and effectively utilize data will determine how we can maximize generative AI's potential.

Riding the Wave: Transform Compliance and Operations with SIRE 2.0

SIRE 2.0, set to overhaul the maritime industry, places emphasis on digitization and human factors. It demands robust information sharing, broader vetting, and comprehensive vessel assessment.

Mitigating Rising Hull and Machinery Insurance Expenses

Delve into the impacts of inflation on marine financial operations, discover the types of marine insurance, and how mitigating non-natural claims with proactive safety measures like Kaiko Systems is a solution.

Introducing the AI Plausibility Checks and Enhanced Inspection Tours

Learn about how AI plausibility checks and enhanced inspection tours enable better data-driven decisions and improve maritime industry safety.

Digitized Inspections Webinar Recap: Maximizing Value from Day One

Digitized inspection webinar summary, with emphasis on real-time insights, accurate vessel assessments, prompt report generation, seamless workflow integration, and an effective trial for successful adoption.

AI-Enabled Corrosion Detection in the Maritime Industry

Empowering maritime technical management with AI corrosion detection. Discover how shipping companies can leverage AI to enhance safety and efficiency.

DryBMS: Overview of the Highest Safety Standard for the Dry Bulk Sector

Introduced by INTERCARGO and RightShip in 2021, the Dry Bulk Management Standard (DryBMS) represents the latest step forward in ensuring safety and reducing risk within the dry bulk sector.

Enhancing Port State Control Readiness with Digitization

Explore how digitization enhances Port State Control readiness, reducing human error and streamlining ship inspection and maintenance in the maritime industry.

Blockchain in the Maritime Industry: TradeLens Case Analysis

Learn more about the current state of blockchain technology in the maritime industry and the lessons learned from the blockchain-based platform TradeLens.

HS Schiffahrts Group Digitizes Inspections & Reporting with Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems and HS Schiffahrts Group have partnered to further digitize the Group's technical management processes across its entire managed fleet. The solution will digitize routine safety inspections, visual hull and equipment inspections, as well as occasional reports

SIRE 2.0 Webinar Recap: A guide for assessment preparation

This article is a webinar summary of the SIRE 2.0 self-assessment. The webinar outlined some key actions to take for tanker operators to ensure SIRE 2.0 readiness. These include ensuring accurate and complete pre-inspection data input, crew preparation and awareness, and utilizing vetting preparation tools

Breaking Barriers: How Digitized Inspections are Changing Technical Management and Driving Competitive Advantage in Shipping

Discover how digitized inspections are changing technical management, boosting safety, accuracy, efficiency and empowering teams.

Introducing Company Forms: Remove double reporting work and surface findings automatically

Company Forms make it easy to identify duplications and eliminate double reporting, automatically surface results and reduce human error.

Transforming Maritime Safety with Standardized Data Sets

Safety is the most substantial and critical issue for the maritime industry. Though regular maintenance is conducted, shipping incidents still occur. How does the lack of data reliability and standardization influence shipping safety? How will high-quality data enable proactivity in technical operations?

Navigating the Cyber Seas: A Look at Maritime Cybersecurity

As the world becomes increasingly connected, the threat of cyber attacks on ships and shipping companies also increases. How to increase vessel cybersecurity and minimize cyber risks?

Maritime 2022 in Review - 10 most notable topics

In this year-in-review blog, we will take a look at some of the most notable topics in the maritime industry over the past year, highlighting the key themes and challenges that have shaped the industry in 2022. 

SIRE 2.0 Phased Transition Plan

The Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) has announced that its upcoming regime SIRE 2.0 (Ship Inspection Report Programme) will be launched in the maritime industry in a phased approach.

Accelerate technical efficiency and risk prevention with seafarer digitization

Digitalization has multi-level impacts on shipping companies’ operations. It not only can substantially optimize costs in vessel maintenance but also improve operational performance.

C Transport Maritime digitizes onboard technical operations with Kaiko Systems

C Transport Maritime rolls out Kaiko Systems' solution on their fleet of 30 vessels. Kaiko Systems solidifies CTM’s safety regime and makes manual technical operations more efficient and reliable.

How to get the most out of routine inspections in shipping

Digitization helped to improve many aspects of ship operations, but one of the fundamental technical operations - ship inspections and maintenance - remains primitive.

Ship Inspection: Expectation & Reality

Regular inspections of the ship and its equipment are required to minimize the risks associated with factors such as machinery damage or failure as well as fire or explosion, which account for over 50% of incidents worldwide.

Digitizing maritime technical operations: Our €2M seed round and what's next

This funding will propel our company growth forward, and enable us to serve shipping companies with stronger empowerment.

Kaiko Systems raises €2M seed round to digitize frontline work in ocean shipping

Since launching the product in 2021, Kaiko Systems has won multiple reputable customers such as Columbia Shipmanagement, Marlow Navigation, USC Barnkrug, and CTM.

5 Common Challenges Of Digitizing Technical Operations, And How To Overcome Them

Even the ones that have successfully implemented digitalization will tell you that there are new hurdles in planning and execution at each phase.

Kaiko Systems and Hanseaticsoft join forces to enable data plausibility checks

The strengthened collaboration will drastically reduce the time crews spend on double entry and desktop work, and allows technical teams to reduce the effort they spend on data inquiry and restructuring.

SIRE 2.0: Overview and Implications

SIRE 2.0 will provide more accurate information to enable OCIMF members and programme recipients to make judgements on the quality and the likely future performance of a vessel. It is becoming operational on September 2, 2024.

There Is No 80/20 in Product

80/20 should not be used on HOW to deliver the product. Instead, it should be used to find out WHAT to develop (breadth of options), and then get the features 100% right.

Innovation strategies in the maritime industry, featured by Splash

Innovation and digitization are far more than simply an additional source of revenue for the maritime industry. There are various strategies that companies utilize to seek digital transformation. We will compare four common strategies and look at how some of the well established shipping companies leverage them.

Superintendents express 100% trust in the data collected through Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems addresses the challenges of data verification, and offload burdens for both crews and the shore team. 

Data analytics for maritime safety management

By understanding the patterns and trends in data, maritime organizations not only can make better decisions about safety management but also create a data-driven culture that can proactively identify and address potential risks.

Misconceptions about digitization with seafarers

There is no doubt that the pandemic has made the shipping industry realize the importance of seafarers. But, the need for digitization for seafarers tends to be overlooked due to various misconceptions.

How ship owners reduce risk through remote pre-purchase inspections

Ship S&P inspection is one of the most exhaustive types of inspections. Technological developments and digital transformation have brought a more flexible approach of conducting S&P inspections without delaying vessel's operations

Artificial intelligence in maritime safety management

Maritime safety and technical management are often challenged by data reliability and complexity, as well as time urgency. Could digital solutions that incorporate artificial intelligence tools help mitigate these difficulties?

Maritime 2021 Year in Review: 10 key events visualized

As the year draws to a close, it is a great opportunity to take a look back at the series of events the maritime industry has experienced and look ahead to what's to come.

"The 2nd best time to plant a tree is now" - Behind the scenes with Fabian Becker

In the past 10 years, Fabian Becker organized startup events where successful startups were formed, helped grow a young shipping company to a fleet of 15 vessels, and later helped build the maritime venture builder.

What are Safety-I and Safety-II? How can technology bridge the gap?

Safety-I investigates why things go wrong. Safety-II investigates why things go right. Data is essential for any safety plan to be fully functional.

Maritime 4.0: Practices, challenges and opportunities

The purpose of Maritime 4.0 includes but is not limited to improving the lifecycle of vessels, facilitating the delivery of greater performance, lowering ownership cost, increasing safety and reliability

From predictive maintenance to human element empowerment

Optimization is leading the maritime tech direction. Human empowerment will be a fundamental driver for efficiency and margin gains. 

A tech-driven maritime needs to be human-centered

Human-centered design (HCD) is a design concept that takes into consideration human purposes, needs, skill, creativity, and potential.

The Key to Insightful Inspections Part 1: Data Standardization

Data standardization is the process of converting data to a common format so that it’s possible for users to analyze it easily.

The Key to Insightful Inspections Part 2: Data Verification

Only data that reflect real-world situations, useful insights can be generated. This makes data verification a crucial step to vessel health management.

Factor analysis between human error and machinery maintenance activities

Human errors don't only come from humans. External factors like environment and operational processes can have a big impact on human factors too.

The Key To Insightful Safety Inspections Part 3: Seamless & Improved Workflow

Inspection planning, conducting, and reporting can be done on one platform with a limited internet connection.

The Key To Insightful Safety Inspections Part 4: Holistic Data Management

Proactive maritime safety management is only possible when data is managed in a unified approach.

Streamlined and Proactive Maritime Asset Management

Ship crews are one of the largest factors that define a vessel’s operational performance, and therefore investing in technology that empowers them can drive a large RoI.

How operational intelligence makes data smart in the maritime industry

Operational Intelligence converts big data into smart data. It allows companies to access performance metrics in real-time, analyze problems, and show future predictions.

How to navigate through the ocean of dark data

The growing amount of data is creating a nightmare for companies. In some cases, too much data can even be a major roadblock for digital transformation.

Computer vision in vessel health management

In the maritime industry, computer vision can be a powerful solution for inspection, localization, events detection, and information extraction, etc.

Maritime data analytics & their application in safety management

Facts and figures are meaningless if actionable insights cannot be generated. Read the blog to learn about 4 primary types of data analytics.

Kaiko Systems unveils KAI, a comprehensive maritime AI agent to automate the heavy workload of technical management teams

Kaiko Systems has launched KAI, an AI-driven maritime agent designed to optimize vessel health management by automating technical tasks for superintendents. KAI enhances productivity by analyzing ship images, detecting corrosion, and improving fleet performance.

Norbulk Shipping announces fleet-wide rollout of Kaiko Systems' SIRE 2.0 self-assessment and PSC preparation software

Norbulk Shipping has successfully rolled out Kaiko Systems' SIRE 2.0 software on its fleet of 27 tankers, preparing for the September 2nd inspection launch. They plan to expand this to all 60 vessels, enhancing PSC preparation and operational efficiency.

Introducing: the Kaiko Systems Vessel Health Map

The Vessel Health Map is crucial for efficient vessel management. Kaiko Systems transforms complex data into clear insights, using color-coded visuals and 3D formats. This tool enhances transparency, supports data-driven decisions, and improves stakeholder communication, ensuring effective maintenance and safety compliance.

Engine Room Fire Safety: A Critical Review and How Kaiko Systems Can Help

The engine room is critical but hazardous. Effective fire safety involves maintaining steel separations, controlling oxygen, managing combustibles, and addressing ignition sources. Kaiko Systems helps to ensure these measures are met, enhancing safety and compliance ahead of USCG inspections.

Kaiko Systems and i.safe MOBILE Singapore announce strategic partnership to revolutionise ship inspections ahead of SIRE 2.0 implementation

Kaiko Systems teams up with i.safe MOBILE to enhance ship inspections with advanced AI and explosion-proof tablets, gearing up for SIRE 2.0.

Company Form Acknowledgements

We’re excited to announce the release of our company forms acknowledgement feature. It allows shore team members to easily acknowledge that they have reviewed checklists and forms completed by crew on board.

F. Laeisz will carry out ship inspections with Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems has announced the fleet rollout of Reederei F. Laeisz, a pioneering German shipping company with a 200-year history of progressiveness. This collaboration sees the rollout of Kaiko Systems' cutting-edge AI-powered software across Laeisz's 18-vessel fleet. The move aims to modernize maintenance processes, enhancing operational efficiency, and ensuring real-time fleet condition monitoring.

Top 10 Safety Trends in the Shipping Industry

Navigating a sea of challenges from rising costs to cybersecurity, this article explores the top 10 safety trends shaping the shipping industry in 2023.

Ensure PSC CIC On Fire Safety 2023 Readiness With Verified Data

Paris and Tokyo MoUs announced a fire safety Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) addressing onboard fire concerns. The 2023 CIC focuses on adherence and amplifying fire safety awareness, assessing key fire safety areas.

Generative AI: An Easy Introduction & Its application in Shipping

As generative AI shapes the maritime industry's future, reliable data remains essential. The capability to gather, manage, and effectively utilize data will determine how we can maximize generative AI's potential.

Riding the Wave: Transform Compliance and Operations with SIRE 2.0

SIRE 2.0, set to overhaul the maritime industry, places emphasis on digitization and human factors. It demands robust information sharing, broader vetting, and comprehensive vessel assessment.

Mitigating Rising Hull and Machinery Insurance Expenses

Delve into the impacts of inflation on marine financial operations, discover the types of marine insurance, and how mitigating non-natural claims with proactive safety measures like Kaiko Systems is a solution.

Introducing the AI Plausibility Checks and Enhanced Inspection Tours

Learn about how AI plausibility checks and enhanced inspection tours enable better data-driven decisions and improve maritime industry safety.

Digitized Inspections Webinar Recap: Maximizing Value from Day One

Digitized inspection webinar summary, with emphasis on real-time insights, accurate vessel assessments, prompt report generation, seamless workflow integration, and an effective trial for successful adoption.

AI-Enabled Corrosion Detection in the Maritime Industry

Empowering maritime technical management with AI corrosion detection. Discover how shipping companies can leverage AI to enhance safety and efficiency.

DryBMS: Overview of the Highest Safety Standard for the Dry Bulk Sector

Introduced by INTERCARGO and RightShip in 2021, the Dry Bulk Management Standard (DryBMS) represents the latest step forward in ensuring safety and reducing risk within the dry bulk sector.

Enhancing Port State Control Readiness with Digitization

Explore how digitization enhances Port State Control readiness, reducing human error and streamlining ship inspection and maintenance in the maritime industry.

Blockchain in the Maritime Industry: TradeLens Case Analysis

Learn more about the current state of blockchain technology in the maritime industry and the lessons learned from the blockchain-based platform TradeLens.

HS Schiffahrts Group Digitizes Inspections & Reporting with Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems and HS Schiffahrts Group have partnered to further digitize the Group's technical management processes across its entire managed fleet. The solution will digitize routine safety inspections, visual hull and equipment inspections, as well as occasional reports

SIRE 2.0 Webinar Recap: A guide for assessment preparation

This article is a webinar summary of the SIRE 2.0 self-assessment. The webinar outlined some key actions to take for tanker operators to ensure SIRE 2.0 readiness. These include ensuring accurate and complete pre-inspection data input, crew preparation and awareness, and utilizing vetting preparation tools

Breaking Barriers: How Digitized Inspections are Changing Technical Management and Driving Competitive Advantage in Shipping

Discover how digitized inspections are changing technical management, boosting safety, accuracy, efficiency and empowering teams.

Introducing Company Forms: Remove double reporting work and surface findings automatically

Company Forms make it easy to identify duplications and eliminate double reporting, automatically surface results and reduce human error.

Transforming Maritime Safety with Standardized Data Sets

Safety is the most substantial and critical issue for the maritime industry. Though regular maintenance is conducted, shipping incidents still occur. How does the lack of data reliability and standardization influence shipping safety? How will high-quality data enable proactivity in technical operations?

Navigating the Cyber Seas: A Look at Maritime Cybersecurity

As the world becomes increasingly connected, the threat of cyber attacks on ships and shipping companies also increases. How to increase vessel cybersecurity and minimize cyber risks?

Maritime 2022 in Review - 10 most notable topics

In this year-in-review blog, we will take a look at some of the most notable topics in the maritime industry over the past year, highlighting the key themes and challenges that have shaped the industry in 2022. 

SIRE 2.0 Phased Transition Plan

The Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) has announced that its upcoming regime SIRE 2.0 (Ship Inspection Report Programme) will be launched in the maritime industry in a phased approach.

Accelerate technical efficiency and risk prevention with seafarer digitization

Digitalization has multi-level impacts on shipping companies’ operations. It not only can substantially optimize costs in vessel maintenance but also improve operational performance.

C Transport Maritime digitizes onboard technical operations with Kaiko Systems

C Transport Maritime rolls out Kaiko Systems' solution on their fleet of 30 vessels. Kaiko Systems solidifies CTM’s safety regime and makes manual technical operations more efficient and reliable.

How to get the most out of routine inspections in shipping

Digitization helped to improve many aspects of ship operations, but one of the fundamental technical operations - ship inspections and maintenance - remains primitive.

Ship Inspection: Expectation & Reality

Regular inspections of the ship and its equipment are required to minimize the risks associated with factors such as machinery damage or failure as well as fire or explosion, which account for over 50% of incidents worldwide.

Digitizing maritime technical operations: Our €2M seed round and what's next

This funding will propel our company growth forward, and enable us to serve shipping companies with stronger empowerment.

Kaiko Systems raises €2M seed round to digitize frontline work in ocean shipping

Since launching the product in 2021, Kaiko Systems has won multiple reputable customers such as Columbia Shipmanagement, Marlow Navigation, USC Barnkrug, and CTM.

5 Common Challenges Of Digitizing Technical Operations, And How To Overcome Them

Even the ones that have successfully implemented digitalization will tell you that there are new hurdles in planning and execution at each phase.

Kaiko Systems and Hanseaticsoft join forces to enable data plausibility checks

The strengthened collaboration will drastically reduce the time crews spend on double entry and desktop work, and allows technical teams to reduce the effort they spend on data inquiry and restructuring.

SIRE 2.0: Overview and Implications

SIRE 2.0 will provide more accurate information to enable OCIMF members and programme recipients to make judgements on the quality and the likely future performance of a vessel. It is becoming operational on September 2, 2024.

There Is No 80/20 in Product

80/20 should not be used on HOW to deliver the product. Instead, it should be used to find out WHAT to develop (breadth of options), and then get the features 100% right.

Innovation strategies in the maritime industry, featured by Splash

Innovation and digitization are far more than simply an additional source of revenue for the maritime industry. There are various strategies that companies utilize to seek digital transformation. We will compare four common strategies and look at how some of the well established shipping companies leverage them.

Superintendents express 100% trust in the data collected through Kaiko Systems

Kaiko Systems addresses the challenges of data verification, and offload burdens for both crews and the shore team. 

Data analytics for maritime safety management

By understanding the patterns and trends in data, maritime organizations not only can make better decisions about safety management but also create a data-driven culture that can proactively identify and address potential risks.

Misconceptions about digitization with seafarers

There is no doubt that the pandemic has made the shipping industry realize the importance of seafarers. But, the need for digitization for seafarers tends to be overlooked due to various misconceptions.

How ship owners reduce risk through remote pre-purchase inspections

Ship S&P inspection is one of the most exhaustive types of inspections. Technological developments and digital transformation have brought a more flexible approach of conducting S&P inspections without delaying vessel's operations

Artificial intelligence in maritime safety management

Maritime safety and technical management are often challenged by data reliability and complexity, as well as time urgency. Could digital solutions that incorporate artificial intelligence tools help mitigate these difficulties?

Maritime 2021 Year in Review: 10 key events visualized

As the year draws to a close, it is a great opportunity to take a look back at the series of events the maritime industry has experienced and look ahead to what's to come.

"The 2nd best time to plant a tree is now" - Behind the scenes with Fabian Becker

In the past 10 years, Fabian Becker organized startup events where successful startups were formed, helped grow a young shipping company to a fleet of 15 vessels, and later helped build the maritime venture builder.

What are Safety-I and Safety-II? How can technology bridge the gap?

Safety-I investigates why things go wrong. Safety-II investigates why things go right. Data is essential for any safety plan to be fully functional.

Maritime 4.0: Practices, challenges and opportunities

The purpose of Maritime 4.0 includes but is not limited to improving the lifecycle of vessels, facilitating the delivery of greater performance, lowering ownership cost, increasing safety and reliability

From predictive maintenance to human element empowerment

Optimization is leading the maritime tech direction. Human empowerment will be a fundamental driver for efficiency and margin gains. 

A tech-driven maritime needs to be human-centered

Human-centered design (HCD) is a design concept that takes into consideration human purposes, needs, skill, creativity, and potential.

The Key to Insightful Inspections Part 1: Data Standardization

Data standardization is the process of converting data to a common format so that it’s possible for users to analyze it easily.

The Key to Insightful Inspections Part 2: Data Verification

Only data that reflect real-world situations, useful insights can be generated. This makes data verification a crucial step to vessel health management.

Factor analysis between human error and machinery maintenance activities

Human errors don't only come from humans. External factors like environment and operational processes can have a big impact on human factors too.

The Key To Insightful Safety Inspections Part 3: Seamless & Improved Workflow

Inspection planning, conducting, and reporting can be done on one platform with a limited internet connection.

The Key To Insightful Safety Inspections Part 4: Holistic Data Management

Proactive maritime safety management is only possible when data is managed in a unified approach.

Streamlined and Proactive Maritime Asset Management

Ship crews are one of the largest factors that define a vessel’s operational performance, and therefore investing in technology that empowers them can drive a large RoI.

How operational intelligence makes data smart in the maritime industry

Operational Intelligence converts big data into smart data. It allows companies to access performance metrics in real-time, analyze problems, and show future predictions.

How to navigate through the ocean of dark data

The growing amount of data is creating a nightmare for companies. In some cases, too much data can even be a major roadblock for digital transformation.

Computer vision in vessel health management

In the maritime industry, computer vision can be a powerful solution for inspection, localization, events detection, and information extraction, etc.

Maritime data analytics & their application in safety management

Facts and figures are meaningless if actionable insights cannot be generated. Read the blog to learn about 4 primary types of data analytics.

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