VESSEL SCHEDULE ESTIMATES FROM AWAKE.AI

Fintraffic´s Vessel Traffic Services has confirmed that it has signed a service agreement with Awake.Ai for the new Port Call Time Stamp and Estimation Service, representing a time data service for port operators and authorities.

The objectives of the new port call schedule service are wide ranging. They include improving the competitiveness of Finnish maritime logistics, boosting the efficiency of port operators’ routine activities, supporting the development of automation, helping to anticipate exceptional circumstances and reducing environmental emissions.

Awake.Ai confirms that the arrival and departure of a ship from port determines the schedules of countless people. Although the majority of vessels have had to provide an estimated time of arrival via VHF frequencies in addition to other necessary information, the data obtained from the vessels has been poor and fragmented.

The new service will be based on data analysis through machine learning. The forecasts will be influenced by many factors that will be assessed using global AIS messages. In addition to automatic classifications, such as where a ship is coming from and where it is going, a ship’s estimated time of arrival will be influenced by many variable factors such as its speed and route, the weather and the ice situation.

“The importance of time data for shipping has been taken into account in both national transport system plans and the government’s decision-in principle on the digitalisation of logistics.” The new service will start in the Autumn.