Maritime software provider Sea has become an official partner of the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping to speed up shipping decarbonisation.
The technology spin-off of UK shipbroker Clarksons has signed a knowledge partnership agreement with the Danish centre.
The pair have committed to a long-term strategic collaboration.
Sea is a vessel-fixture platform for charterers, brokers and shipowners.
It will provide access to its pre-trade intelligence and analytics tool that processes more than 68.7bn AIS data points annually.
Sea will also contribute its insights on shipping, including visibility of activity across ports and vessel deployment.
The tool can also provide emissions evaluations for analysis of green corridors, waiting times and fleet speed developments, in order to estimate emission-reduction potential.
The centre’s chief executive Bo Cerup-Simonsen said: “Reliable data empowers us to make informed decisions.”
“With Sea, the centre will get important insights into global fleet operations which can help us fast-track the development and implementation of green corridors, technology projects, and progressive regulatory frameworks,” he added.
Modelling the future
Sea CEO Peter Schroder called the centre the leading provider of the innovation and collaboration the shipping industry needs to achieve its decarbonisation targets.
“Our platform will accelerate the centre’s work in enabling future solutions, concepts, and standards – including modelling viable decarbonisation pathways,” he said.
In May, Sea added to its reach with a deal to buy recap and charterparty management platform MarDocs from Marcura.
The London-based tech outfits also formed a new strategic partnership.
In November 2022, the platform secured more software development power by buying Polish maritime technology company Setapp, which has about 50 staff in Poznan.
This came after the takeover of Sweden’s Chinsay, merging the freight contract management platform’s services into Sea’s digital operations.
