Maritime AI Topic
AI in Ship Purchasing and Bunkers
Purchasing is where a lot of a ship manager's money moves, and AI is arriving in bunker buying, spare parts and invoice checking. These are the stories we have covered.
Latest stories on purchasing and spare parts
From the AI at Sea weekly digest. This list updates with every new issue.
6 September 2026
Marcura Points AI at the Invoice Pile, Which Is Where the Money Actually LeaksNobody will make a conference keynote out of this one. That is roughly the point. Marcura has launched Procure-to-Pay, which joins up ordering…
16 August 2026
Stolt Tankers Switches Off Software It Wrote ItselfStolt Tankers has moved around 100 deep-sea vessels onto Procureship's e-procurement platform, live since June 2026, and is retiring the procurement…
12 July 2026
Norwegian Cruise Line Hands Bunker Procurement to ZeroNorthNorwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) has adopted ZeroNorth's Bunker Procurement Solution to modernise how it buys fuel, in a partnership signed at…
19 April 2026
Asyad Shipping Deploys AuctionConnect Digital Bunker Procurement Fleet-WideAsyad Shipping, the Oman-based fleet operator with 80 vessels and 9.7 million DWT, has signed a three-year agreement with AuctionConnect to deploy…
15 March 2026
Tideform Launches AI-Powered Bunker Market Agent Atlas — Real-Time Fuel Intelligence Across 500 PortsCopenhagen-based Tideform relaunched its marine fuel intelligence platform on March 12, 2026 with the introduction of Atlas, an AI-powered agent…
1 March 2026
project44 AI Freight Procurement Agent Replaces the Quarterly Bid Cycleproject44 launched its AI Freight Procurement Agent on February 26, 2026 — an autonomous sourcing system embedded inside its Intelligent…