Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has announced a deal to make Amazon Web Services (AWS) its preferred Cloud services provider as it continues development of its smart ship and autonomous vessel programmes.

Hanseaticsoft has released a new Garbage Disposals module for its Cloud Fleet Manager (CFM) web-based software platform, designed to assist shipping companies in keeping track of all waste, sewage and sludge disposals, across all vessels.

Greece-based shipowner Pleiades Shipping has agreed a deal with iMarine Software to connect its software systems to the Seaproc e-procurement hub.

Lloyd’s Register (LR) has launched an online verification service called CO2 Verifier to cover compliance with both the EU monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) regulation and the IMO Data Collection System (DCS).

Hyundai Merchant Marine has announced that it is to work with tech giant Oracle on the development of a next-generation IT system, built on a Cloud-based infrastructure.

Bulk freight operator Clipper Group reports that it has agreed a deal to implement Veson Nautical’s Veslink IMOS Platform (VIP) to manage its maritime operations.

Maritime e-procurement company Kinnetik Solutions has announced a partnership with the Wrist Ship Supply Group, the world’s largest ship supplier, which will see Wrist integrate its global platform with Kinnetik’s Cloud-based software platform.

The EU-funded maritime digitalisation project EfficienSea2 has drawn to a close, with the final conclusions from the three-year project presented to stakeholders at a final conference in Copenhagen.

Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has announced a partnership with Microsoft to apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) research to improve network operations and achieve efficiencies within the shipping industry, with more than 200 AI developers expected to be trained by the project over the next 12 months.

Bureau Veritas has introduced the first phase of its My Fuel Consumption software system, a Cloud-based web application offering a digital process to manage compliance with IMO-DCS (Data Collection System) and EU MRV (monitoring reporting and verification) regulations, which aim to track shipping CO2 emissions.