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Improving safety and reducing fuel costs for global shipping giant Seaspan

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The customer

Seaspan Corporation: committed to maritime excellence

Seaspan Corporation is a global leader in maritime asset management and ownership, focusing on long-term, fixed-rate leases with top shipping lines. With a workforce of over 6,000 across offices in Hong Kong, Canada, and India, the company’s fleet includes 165 vessels and 23 more under construction. The world’s leading container liner companies trust Seaspan Corporation to safely and securely transport their valuable cargo across the globe.

  • 64

    Vessels installed with Orca AI

  • 680K+

    Nautical miles sailed

  • 208

    Voyages

  • 500MT

    Annual CO₂ reduction / vessel

The challenge

Always on the lookout for safety innovation

Seaspan’s comprehensive digitalization strategy is designed to maintain its unique market position – where the corporation is neutral and works with everyone – and leverage its size to scale new digital technologies and reap the benefits at pace. Operational excellence, emissions data and reporting, and navigation safety are the three key areas beyond crew welfare that Seaspan Corporation poised for digital transformation.

  • Operational excellence

    Deploy technologies that improve safety, reliability, and cost efficiency at scale.

  • Navigation safety

    Support bridge teams with tools that enhance situational awareness, especially in low visibility and high-density environments.

  • Emissions data and reporting

    Provide accurate emissions reporting for charterers, supported by consistent, vessel-level data.

Enhanced safety and less emissions leads to greater sustainability, socially and business-wise. We all want that.

Torsten Pedersen, Chief Operating Officer
Seaspan Corporation
The solution

AI-assisted situational awareness

Seaspan took a proactive, fleet-wide approach to improving navigational safety and operational efficiency, deploying Orca AI to standardize bridge decision-making, reduce close encounters, and optimize routing and speed across vessels.

FOR THE BRIDGE

Helping crews identify high-risk targets in high-density areas

Seaspan selected Orca AI’s SeaPod to give bridge crews a real-time digital lookout that enhances situational awareness through:

  • AI-powered detection of small vessels (with or without AIS)
  • Thermal + day cameras for low-visibility operations
  • Early alerts when vessels approach SMS thresholds
  • Unified view combining camera feeds, AIS, GPS, and ship sensors
FOR THE OFFICE

Real-time visibility into navigation events and fleet performance

With FleetView, Seaspan’s shoreside teams can:

  • Monitor live bridge video and receive critical alerts
  • Track SMS and COLREGs compliance
  • Analyze navigation trends across the fleet
  • Pinpoint areas for improvement and share best practices

Orca AI is an intuitive and valuable tool for enhancing navigational awareness. It is extremely helpful in detecting ships under poor visibility conditions, and whether they pose a risk to navigation.

Captain Sergiy Gayevyk Cosco Korea
Proven ROI

USD 100,000 saving per vessel per year due to reduction of collision avoidance maneuvers

Seaspan invested in Orca AI to strengthen navigation safety across a 200-ship fleet and validate the ROI of long-term technology partners. The results: vessels using Orca AI experienced fewer close encounters and fewer navigational deviations, reducing the need for collision avoidance maneuvers that increase fuel burn and disrupt schedules.

While safety gains are difficult to quantify financially, the operational impact was measurable. Ships equipped with Orca AI reduced fuel consumption by about USD 100,000 per vessel per year, equivalent to 500 metric tons of CO₂. Orca AI delivered both safer navigation and measurable efficiency gains at fleet scale.

  • 37%

    reduction in close encounters

  • 35%

    increasing in minimum passing distance

  • $100K

    annual fuel cost savings per vessel

  • 500MT

    annual CO₂ reduction per vessel

Learn how Seaspan uses Orca AI to improve operations.

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