CNBC’s Lori Ann LaRocco on logistics
January 6, 2023Journalist, producer, Freightwaves columnist and author Lori Ann LaRocco is passionate about logistics.
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Driving next-generation AI-powered voyage optimization with weather data
December 22, 2022It’s a regular gray smoggy day in 2050 in Los Angeles as the city wakes up and sets out to work with its residents wearing air filtration masks.
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Using AIS Data to validate stolen grain sales
November 29, 2022Evidence of illegal grain shipments and sales continues to mount.
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Port Events: Smart AIS Data for port and vessel optimization
November 22, 2022As the maritime industry continues to embrace digitization, the power and payoffs of leveraging data are being realized in increasingly impactful ways, from port operations, insurance underwriting, and supply chain monitoring to reducing carbon emissions.
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The secret is out: dark vessels harm the environment
November 16, 2022There are vast, well-known sources of carbon emissions that threaten the global environment—vehicle emissions, electrical power generation, agriculture, etc.
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COP 27: 4 ways AIS and weather data can be used to reduce maritime carbon emissions
October 31, 2022More decisive actions and commitments are expected at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations (COP27): 2022 is the ‘Super Year of the Ocean’ and the UN-Ocean Conference reached a collective agreement earlier this year among governments to implement “science-based, innovative” solutions to curb ocean warming.
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Grain laundering: seeing who’s hiding in the dark shipping
October 26, 2022You may have heard of money laundering, but what about “grain laundering”?
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Maritime Innovator: Meerkat.ai
October 21, 2022Who says business and family don’t mix? For Meerkat.ai, it’s a strength!
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SAR + AI/ML for dark vessel detection: the xView3 challenge
October 13, 2022When one thinks of “dark vessels”, typically the term is associated with illegal fishing and decimating the marine food chain.
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ShipView: An environmental protection tool to fight oil pollution
September 30, 2022Oil pollution wreaking devastation in the world’s oceans has a long, unfortunate history.
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Ten ports vital to modern France
September 20, 2022As a nation with a long history as a maritime power and economic powerhouse, France’s ports are both historic and key cogs in the modern economy of the entire European Union.
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Introducing Maritime Means…, the podcast featuring digital innovators in the maritime industry
August 31, 2022Maritime Means… is the brand new Spire Maritime podcast hosted by Blythe Brumleve featuring digital innovators and maritime stars moving the industry forward. Listen to their stories, experiences and expertise.
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Using AIS data to understand the destination of Ukrainian grain exports
August 26, 2022Using AIS data, we looked into the reported destinations of ships leaving Ukraine under the Black Sea Grain Initiative and monitored them to get a sense of what is happening on the ground.
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