Maritime Insights

We sat down with Marius, who recently won the award for best master’s thesis, to talk about his work with AI in industrial planning and his role at Maritime Optima. Read the interview to hear his thoughts on explainable AI, lessons from his studies, and how he sees AI shaping the future.

This collaboration will integrate Maritime IntelX's real-time bunker price data and forward curves into Maritime Optima's ShipIntel platform.

We have had a fantastic start to the new year with a tremendous growth in ShipIntel and ShipAtlas revenues and many new talented people coming our way. We are getting great feedback from existing customers and have officially launched the live vessel list/position list feature.

After a well deserved rest we’re back and ready for the year ahead. In this final newsletter of 2024, we’re excited to recap our biggest achievements, reflect on lessons learned, and share how we're preparing for an even more impactful year ahead.

We are heading towards Christmas and November has been a very busy month; we are ready to scale and grow globally and be present where the shipping industry is located.

October is a dark month in Norway, but for Maritime Optima it has been a month with global expansions and hiring of new colleagues.

Maritime Optima notice increased international interest for their innovative AI solution ShipIntel® and announce establishment of new offices in the important global shipping hubs Greece and Singapore.

What a month! This month has been extraordinary since existing customers have both added seats and renewed their subscriptions, and new customers are signing up. That shows that we have developed products that are wanted.

The trees are already turning yellow here in Oslo, but we do really look forward to the autumn.

Norwegian maritime startup Maritime Optima partners with Microsoft to unlock maritime professionals digital potential.

Welcome to Maritime Optima’s 1st monthly newsletter! We hope you will subscribe and follow our progress 🚢 Our goal is to help maritime professionals unlock their digital potential by providing intelligent and easy-to-use software based on industry knowledge, AI, big data, and algorithms.

Revenues and number of users in ShipIntel and ShipAtlas are growing quickly, and we had the pleasure of signing a contract with Sibelco, a large mining company focused on silica, clays, feldspathics and olivine. We've done improvements in the sea route and design and are working on the larger features we are planning to launch end of March.

March offered several milestones, one of them being a new sales revenue record, beating our last record with 13%. Also, we released some big news; you can now find ShipIntel Essentials on Microsoft Teams!

Welcome to the fourth edition of our monthly newsletter, where we recap an (extremely) eventful April! 🌻 This past month has been pivotal for us, marked by exciting launches, and once again a new monthly sales record has been set.

At the end of April we revealed ShipIntel's new business model; You can now tie your ShipIntel subscription to your Microsoft 365 subscription and make ShipIntel a part of your company's IT data and security policy.

While some colleagues are on their well-deserved holidays, others are diligently working to ensure our momentum is maintained throughout the summer. We are also excited to announce we have begun expanding our operation beyond the borders of Norway. Stay tuned for more updates in our upcoming monthly newsletters.

We could start this newsletter off saying we’re finally back from a well-deserved summer break, and that July was uneventful. But that wouldn’t be true. Over the summer, we made significant strides in further distinguishing our two products, ShipAtlas and ShipIntel.

Every year, we welcome a couple of summer interns to our team, and this year was no different. Meet the summer interns of 2024, Frederik, Fredrik and Daniel!

Armed with gloves, trash bags and a lot of motivation we spent a Saturday making a tangible difference with a beach cleanup to prevent plastic and other waste from entering the beautiful Oslo fjord.

However, Generative AI will not generate magic unprompted, and it will only create value for those who possess the knowledge to effectively leverage these AI agents.

As our company continues to grow we've reached a point that calls for a significant transformation in how we operate and serve our customers. Get a glimpse into the new and improved ShipIntel!