Maritime blog

Mitigating marine shipping risk with big tech tools

For most people working in the shipping industry, making the right decision within a specific context drives decision-making.

Combining innumerable data points to tell an essential story

In the “Combining AIS Data With Vessel Characteristics Data” webinar, our subject-matter experts explain the wide range of insights made accessible using the wealth of information gleaned from not only vessel-tracking AIS but other granular data that is now available.

Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

By giving customers more visibility and greater confidence to accurately predict delivery times.

Port of Busan: A tech-powered port for a tech forward nation

Like the nation for which it serves as the major port, the Port of Busan has grown dramatically since the end of World War II. After serving as a modest harbor for centuries, it was expanded in the late 1800s to serve as a trade hub with China and Japan, and grew rapidly in the 1960s as South Korea became an export powerhouse. Today, the port is the world’s seventh busiest.

Using AIS Data to Track Russian Oil

Maritime Innovator: UniSea

Our customers constantly amaze us with their innovative approach to industry solutions and out-of-the-box ideas to build a better planet. This month’s Innovative Customer Spotlight is on UniSea, a software and consultancy house that has been delivering market leading HSEQ and operation support software to vessels and companies worldwide for over two decades.

Leveling the playing field: A high-tech tool for small-scale and artisanal fisheries

It is no secret that the world’s largest vessels, the gargantuan oil tankers and container ships that travel the oceans while transiting between ports, are decked out with the latest tech.

AIS ship tracking reveal: Qatar helping EU survive Russian gas sanctions

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has upended not only the diplomatic status quo in Europe but it is having myriad knock-on effects that span continents and economic sectors.

Arctic shipping: The once unattainable becomes increasingly normalized

The ability to sail the world’s northernmost seas has long been a nautical dream pursued by explorers and heavily invested in by nation-states.

Maritime Innovator: Nautilus Labs

Our customers constantly amaze us with their innovative approach to industry solutions and out-of-the-box ideas to build a better planet. This month’s Innovative Customer Spotlight is on Nautilus Labs, a maritime technology company that reduces emissions while maximizing commercial returns. Let’s take a look at how Nautilus Labs is advancing the efficiency of ocean commerce through AI.

Leveraging the power of satellite data to mitigate the global supply chain crisis

This article is the first in a series covering the worldwide supply chain disruptions and how Spire’s global solutions are helping alleviate these pain points across diverse industries including maritime, aviation and weather.

COVID Continues to Throw Curveballs for China's Ports

As has become clear, the endpoint of COVID-19—if it ever comes—won’t be as plainly defined as when it took off in the first quarter of 2020. Here we are now, two years later, and though things seem currently under control in the United States and Europe (though the Omicron subvariant BA.2 may be changing that), the impact of the pandemic is still coursing around the world.

Sanctions on Russia as it presses in on Ukraine

The current Russian invasion of Ukraine is taking place on land long wracked by war. The events that have occurred over the last month bring us to look back on what has come before, including some of the worst episodes of 20th-century European history.