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Maritime AI Digest — 11 October 2026

Weekly roundup: ABS runs a port approach 100 times on a computer and finds that taking one person off a four-person bridge pushes the officer on watch into overload in 61% of runs instead of 8%, in a simulation and not on a real ship; a Busan container terminal puts 28 AI cameras on 14 quay cranes to warn machine drivers when a worker on foot is in their lane, with no accident figures yet; Lloyd's List Intelligence adds satellite pictures to check whether a ship was really at the position it broadcast, with no customer or price given; Singapore plans to register a ship in minutes instead of three days from 2027 and puts AI, autonomous vessels and drones into a new law in the same week; camera maker ShipIn says Prime Tanker Management recorded 76% fewer safety gear breaches in 60 days, in a release that does not explain how they were counted; China's national standard for naming and grading ship data takes effect, written by the yards and owners that will use it; and we ask the question that sits under all six, which is whether the person next to the machine can still cope