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.
The customer
Seaspan Corporation: Committed to Maritime Excellence
The need
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
Reach operational excellence through adoption of new technologies, while ensuring that every new technology deployed improves safety, enhances reliability and reduces cost.
- Navigation safety
Build on a strongly embedded safety culture, seafarers can adopt digital technologies that can provide assistance throughout their daily assignments.
- Emissions data and reporting
Designed to ensure the vessels comply with emissions reporting data by using the most appropriate system while passing it on to the right charterer at the right time.
Enhanced safety and less emissions leads to greater sustainability, socially and business-wise. We all want that. But you have to build on a strong safety culture. If you don't have the culture, there's a danger your new digital tools will either be ignored or used wrongly. You can't build on poor practice, you can only build on good practice."
Torsten Pedersen
Chief Operating Officer, Seaspan Corporation
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37%
Reduction in # of close encounter events
35%
Increase in minimum average distance from other vessels
$100K
Annual fuel cost savings per vessel
500 MT
Annual reduction in CO2 emissions per vessel
