Three Certificates in Six Days, and Every One Stops at the Same Place

Something changed this week, and it is worth naming carefully before anyone oversells it.

On 7 September, Korean Register issued a statement of fact on the vessel-performance calculation method used by ShipWatch. KR examined how the platform corrects environmental data, calculates performance indicators and assesses change over time. It found the method follows the performance-monitoring sequence in ISO 19030:2016, with corrections for wind, waves and seawater properties aligned to the principles of ISO 15016:2015. It separately looked at power deviation, speed loss, and the use of uncertainty analysis on daily noon-report data. ShipWatch is affiliated with Navig8 and ADNOC Logistics & Services, and runs across their fleets.

On 10 September, 90POE announced that Normec Verifavia had certified its OpenOcean Studio platform across six regimes: EU and UK monitoring, reporting and verification, the EU Emissions Trading System, the IMO Data Collection System, the Carbon Intensity Indicator and FuelEU Maritime. Normec tested fuel and carbon dioxide calculations, voyage allocation and activity-data handling, then examined IT controls covering security, confidentiality, archiving, performance and change management, under the principles of ISO 17065.

On 8 September, Bureau Veritas granted cyber security type approval to Inmarsat Maritime's NexusWave service against IACS requirements.

Now read the small print, because both of the first two publish it themselves. The KR review covers the calculation methodology rather than certifying individual vessel-performance or fuel-saving claims. The Normec certificate relates to the software's calculation and reporting functions, and shipowners remain responsible for the quality and completeness of the data they supply.

That is not a criticism of either body. It is exactly what a competent verifier should say. But it means the thing being certified is the arithmetic, and the thing you are buying is the result. Those are not the same object, and the distance between them is filled entirely by your own data. A certificate on a fuel-saving platform tells you the sums are done properly. It tells you nothing about whether your flowmeters are calibrated, your noon reports are honest, or your channel mapping survived the last retrofit. [Splash247 · KR + ShipWatch · Splash247 · 90POE · Smart Maritime Network · NexusWave]

This story is part of the Maritime AI Digest of 13 September 2026.