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We put a number on your fleet’s carbon inefficiency — now you can pull it yourself

For months we’ve been mining verified, publicly available EU MRV submissions at vessel level and turning them into something concrete: for each ship in your fleet, three cost drivers that compound simultaneously.

  • Fuel-efficiency gap — what each vessel burns above its within-fleet median, priced per year ($).
  • CII charter-rate exposure — the charter sensitivity of a deteriorating CO₂-intensity trajectory (a derived peer-band proxy, not an official IMO rating).
  • EU ETS procurement savings — what forward-purchasing EUAs ahead of the September 2026 surrender is worth vs buying at the deadline.

Every figure comes back with a vessel name, a cause and a recommended action. No input required from your side for the first brief — we reconstruct it entirely from public data. The interpretation is ours; you just have to look at yours.

Get your fleet’s brief Run your company through the same pipeline and get a complimentary brief — fuel gap, CII exposure and ETS saving — in days, not weeks.

Figures are indicative; the peer band is a derived percentile of CO₂ intensity within the ship-type cohort — a commercial proxy for decision-support, not an IMO CII result or regulatory penalty.

Every vessel in the 2025 MRV book — 14,370 ships, 10 types, 3,736 operators — scored on real data, not a demo.

  • See the band shape at a glance. Live A–E distribution per ship type, so you know where your fleet sits before you open a single file.
  • Filter like an operator. Type, CII band, operator, percentile range, FuelEU 2030 status — or just type a name and hit enter. Sort on any metric.
  • Open a vessel, get the story. CII band & percentile, CO₂ per nautical mile, P(D/E) risk score, charter sensitivity in $, ETS exposure, and FuelEU screening — plus its full 2021→2025 trajectory.
  • Know your own fleet. Sister-fleet view groups same-operator × same-type ships and puts your percentile delta against them front and center — where you stand, not where the market does.
  • FuelEU-ready. GHG intensity in g/MJ and a clean 2030 compliant / over-target read for every ship.

No build step. No spin-up. Load it, filter, click through — your fleet is one refresh away. Check our dashboard

The Carbon Compliance Gap in Maritime Shipping — and How to Close It With Code

Since January 2024, maritime transport has been included in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). Ships within scope now have obligations to monitor, report, and ultimately surrender EU allowances for covered greenhouse-gas emissions. The phase-in is 40% for 2024 emissions, 70% for 2025 emissions, and 100% from 2026 emissions onward, with surrender taking place in the following compliance cycle. The geographical scope also matters: emissions are treated differently for voyages between EU/EEA ports, voyages between an EU/EEA port and a non-EU/EEA port, and emissions occurring while ships are at EU/EEA ports.

In parallel, FuelEU Maritime, Regulation (EU) 2023/1805, applies from 2025 and introduces a different compliance mechanism based on the greenhouse-gas intensity of energy used on board ships. Its requirements are expressed on a well-to-wake basis and become progressively more stringent over time.

And alongside the EU regimes sits the IMO’s Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) framework. Since 2023, applicable ships have been required to calculate an annual operational CII and receive an A-to-E rating. A ship rated E for one year, or D for three consecutive years, must submit a corrective action plan showing how it will achieve a C rating or better.

These regimes overlap in their underlying operational data, but they are not three versions of the same calculation.

  • EU ETS is an emissions-allowance regime.
  • FuelEU is an annual greenhouse-gas-intensity and compliance-balance regime.
  • CII is an IMO operational carbon-intensity rating regime.

That distinction matters.

A single voyage can generate data relevant to all three systems, but the resulting compliance calculations operate over different scopes, time periods, methodologies, and regulatory definitions.

The practical result is a data and software problem:

the same fuel-consumption and voyage records may feed several regulatory engines, but those engines cannot safely share the same assumptions.

Most operators still rely heavily on spreadsheets, manually maintained calculation tools, or internal systems whose regulatory assumptions are difficult to inspect and reproduce.

That is where a purpose-built calculation library can help—but only if the software treats the regulations as versioned rules rather than as a handful of constants.

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A Model Validation Framework for Corrosion & Remaining-Life Models

Asset-integrity teams live with a recurring failure mode: a corrosion or remaining-life model arrives with impressive demo numbers, and then the conversation stops. What is the model actually doing? Is its rate within published literature for X65 carbon steel in atmospheric service? Does it hold up when you replay real survey history? Can your buyer’s engineer reproduce your numbers, not just trust a screenshot?

“Trust the vendor” is not a validation strategy. It’s how you get a surprise corrosion event three years after commissioning — and a very awkward conversation with whoever signs the integrity plan.

The Model Validation Framework (MVF) is a staged, evidence-producing pipeline that puts a degradation engine under test before it earns a seat in your integrity workflow:

StageQuestion answeredEvidence produced
S0 — Synthetic correctnessDoes the engine do arithmetic?Constant/noisy/step campaigns with exact expected outcomes; per-case pass/fail
S1 — Literature calibrationAre its rates defensible against published bands?Every zone × material × rate cell checked against cited literature, PASS/FAIL per cell
S2 — Survey-record backtestDoes it replay history correctly?Hold-out protocol: fit on survey history, predict the final survey; TTF hits, MAE, RMSE, Brier
S3 — Field campaign validationDoes it work on your licensed field data?Same pipeline, same guarantees — campaigns ingest through a versioned schema and score identically

Two design decisions matter more than any metric:

  1. The engine is imported as a pinned library. MVF does not fork, wrap, or “improve” vendor math. The report names the exact engine commit, so there is no ambiguity about what was tested.
  2. Every report carries a provenance block — framework version, git SHA, engine commit, dataset checksums, config hash, run stamp — and is deterministic for a given stamp. A buyer re-running the pipeline gets byte-identical numbers. That sentence is the whole business case in miniature.

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Legacy System Data Extraction

Your vessels are generating more data than ever before. Engine control units are logging performance metrics. Navigation systems are streaming position and speed information. Maintenance management platforms are tracking every work order, every spare part, every inspection. But that data is trapped. Trapped behind NMEA 0183 serial protocols that haven’t …

TBE Engine: Automated Technical Bid Evaluation for Modern Procurement

Stop evaluating vendor bids in spreadsheets. Get accurate compliance matrices, deviation registers, and vendor comparisons in seconds—not days. The Problem Every significant procurement decision requires technical bid evaluation. Your engineers receive specifications from vendors. They spend days manually comparing offerings against requirements. They build endless spreadsheets. They chase clarification emails. …

In-Tank Die-Off: Planning Tool or Compliance Shortcut?

The idea is seductive: organisms die naturally during a voyage. If you have enough time at sea, do you really need full treatment? The In-Tank Die-Off Estimator exists to answer that question quantitatively—but it comes with critical caveats. How Die-Off Works Organisms in ballast water don’t live forever. They die …

Tank Residuals and Sediment: The Compliance Gap Most Shipowners Miss

For bulk carriers, tankers, and vessels with tanks that can’t be pumped completely dry, ballast water compliance isn’t just about treatment efficacy. It’s about what happens when treated ballast mixes with residual water and sediment that was never treated. The Problem with Unpumpable Residuals No cargo tank can be pumped …

Beyond Log Reduction: Understanding Uncertainty in BWMS Performance

A 99.9% log reduction sounds impressive. But what does it really mean for discharge compliance? Two systems with identical certified log reductions can have vastly different practical performance—and the difference lies in measurement uncertainty. The Problem with Log Reduction Numbers Log reduction is a statistical measure. When laboratories test BWMS …

Type-Approval Envelope Analysis: Will Your BWMS Work in These Waters?

Every type-approved Ballast Water Management System is certified over a specific envelope of operating conditions—salinity, temperature, and turbidity. But what happens when your operational waters fall outside that envelope? Understanding Type-Approval Envelopes When a BWMS receives type approval, it’s tested under controlled laboratory conditions. The approval documents specify the range …

UV Dose Calculator: Modelling Real-World Performance for UV-Based BWMS

UV-based Ballast Water Management Systems promise effective treatment without chemicals—but only when they deliver sufficient UV dose. The challenge? UV dose isn’t constant. It varies with lamp age, water quality, flow rate, and reactor design. What Affects UV Dose? 1. Lamp Age UV lamps lose intensity over time. A lamp …

TRO Decay & Neutralisation: A Practical Guide for Electrochlorination Operators

When you’re running an electrochlorination or ozone-based Ballast Water Management System (BWMS), managing Total Residual Oxidant (TRO) levels isn’t just about compliance—it’s about understanding the chemistry happening in your tanks throughout the voyage. What is TRO Decay? TRO decays naturally over time through reactions with organic matter, metals, and through …