Eastern Pacific Shipping expands Orca AI platform rollout after successful pilot

Orca AI has expanded its collaboration with Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) after successfully completing a pilot involving five vessels and more than 130,000 nautical miles of operations.

Following the pilot, EPS will deploy Orca AI’s SeaPod maritime operations platform across dozens of additional vessels.

Across the five-vessel deployment, operational data showed close-encounter events decreased by 48% per 1,000 nautical miles, while average minimum passing distance increased by 10%. One participating vessel, the 2019-built 50,000 dwt tanker Pacific Sentinel, recorded an 84% reduction in open-water close-encounter events and a 50% increase in minimum passing distance within six months of installation.

Orca AI’s platform combines onboard situational awareness with shore-based analytics. SeaPod, installed on the bridge, uses computer vision to detect and classify surrounding vessels and objects, including non-AIS targets such as fishing vessels and buoys, helping bridge teams maintain awareness in congested waters and low-visibility conditions.

FleetView provides shoreside teams with navigational insights that enable the review of operational events, identification of trends and support for data-driven training and continuous improvement.

“Our seafarers are at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to equip our masters and bridge teams with practical technologies that enhance situational awareness and support safe decision-making. The pilot gave us objective data on how navigational risk changed over time, and the results gave us the confidence to expand deployment across our fleet,” said Sachin Saharawat, technical director at EPS.