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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Decarbonisation: Emissions & Energy Baseline for AI-Driven Voyage Optimisation

01 July 2025, 12:22 pm

Client context
A vessel owner preparing for CII and charter-party scrutiny needed a credible emissions baseline before deploying advanced voyage optimisation software.

Problem

  • Historical datasets showed inconsistency between logged fuel use and actual shaft power

  • Environmental KPIs varied significantly between sister vessels

  • Risk of deploying AI optimisation on biased or invalidated inputs

Equitus scope

  • Reconciliation of onboard sensor data with first-principles energy balance models

  • Statistical outlier detection tied back to physical causation (windage, added resistance, operational transients)

  • Independent verification framework aligned with IMO DCS / CII logic, but richer in causality

  • Delivered a “digital trust layer” beneath optimisation algorithms

Outcome

  • Corrected baseline errors of 3–5% in fuel attribution

  • Reduced false optimisation signals caused by environmental noise

  • Enabled confident roll-out of AI-based routing and speed optimisation

  • Achieved 4–6% additional fuel savings without compromising ETA or safety margins

What's in it for you

  • Directly addresses the data quality problem that limits AI performance

  • Positions independent engineering validation as an enabler of better machine learning outcomes

  • Aligns perfectly with operators' value proposition of trusted performance analytics

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