A Ship Manager Publishes a Number for Camera AI, From One Ship

Ship manager Acheon Akti, which runs more than 65 vessels, has finished a pilot of an AI monitoring system from EVI Safety Technology. The system uses the cameras already on board. It watches chosen activities, flags possible risks to the crew, and keeps the footage for the office to review later. The video is processed on the ship, so it works when the satellite link is poor.

The numbers. Acheon Akti says bridge near misses on the pilot ship fell by almost 20 times. Other watched areas improved by at least three times. The total time the crew spent outside procedure fell by 69%, from 8,839 minutes to 2,730 minutes. The manager now plans to put the system on more ships, together with EVI's KARCO safety training.

Why we lead with it. In August a serving master mariner asked in print what these cameras really measure. We noted then that this kind of system runs on more than 1,300 ships and almost nobody had published a result. We have kept one question open since then: will anyone publish a number? This week a ship manager did. That deserves credit.

Now the honest part. It is one ship. The figures are the manager's own, and Splash247 says clearly they do not describe the fleet. We do not know how long the "before" and "after" periods were. We do not know who counted the near misses. If the camera counted them, then the tool is marking its own homework. And people behave differently when they know they are watched. That effect is real, but it can fade after a few months.

What to ask before you buy. Three things. Who counts the events, the system or a person? What happened to the numbers after six months, not six weeks? And did real incidents and claims go down, or only the things the camera can see? A drop in recorded deviations is a good sign. It is not yet proof of a safer ship. [Splash247 · AiatSea, 30 August]

This story is part of the Maritime AI Digest of 4 October 2026.