AI in Maritime: Revolutionizing Shipping for Sustainability
Artificial intelligence revolutionizes maritime shipping with autonomous vessels, route optimization, and emissions tracking, fostering sustainable global trade. See latest price on Amazon.
Quick facts
Topic: Transportation
Tags: Transportation, Artificial Intelligence, AI Trends
Length: 312 pages
Best for: Readers who want practical, plain-English AI insights with real-world examples.
Because AI in transportation affects safety, reliability, efficiency, and emissions. Getting the basics right matters long before anyone wheels in the hype machine.
What you’ll learn
Where AI is already being used in transportation today — and where the claims are running ahead of reality.
The workflows, systems, and trade-offs behind practical transportation use cases, explained in plain English.
Key themes including routing, prediction, safety, operations.
The limits, risks, and awkward questions worth asking before you sign off on the sales pitch.
Who this book is for
Maritime operators, port managers, and logistics professionals navigating AI's impact on shipping routes and sustainability targets.
What this book covers
A 312-page guide to AI in maritime shipping — autonomous vessels, route optimisation, emissions tracking, and how intelligent technology is making global shipping more sustainable.
What makes this book distinct
Shipping moves 90% of global trade, yet it remains one of the least digitised major industries. This book covers how AI is now driving real change — from autonomous vessels on fixed routes to AI route optimisation that's cutting fuel consumption by 10–15% on major freight corridors.
Not your book? Not a guide for mariners or deck officers — this is strategic and analytical in focus, written for anyone trying to understand the commercial and environmental forces reshaping global logistics.
Jonathan HarrisArtificial Intelligence Author & Host of Turing's Torch AI Weekly
Longer-form context from the retired overview page, now folded into the canonical book route.
Problem framing: where this topic gets messy
In transport and mobility, the hard part is not hearing that AI exists. It is deciding where it genuinely improves safety, timing, reliability, and cost without creating fresh operational risk. A 312-page guide to AI in maritime shipping — autonomous vessels, route optimisation, emissions tracking, and how intelligent technology is making global shipping more sustainable. Pages: 312. Because AI in transportation affects safety, reliability, efficiency, and emissions. Getting the basics right matters long before anyone wheels in the hype machine.
Practical outcomes
In practical terms, the aim is simple: you should leave with a clearer feel for where prediction, routing, control, and decision-support are genuinely useful — and where the sales pitch outruns the engineering. That means clearer judgement, fewer lazy assumptions, and a much better sense of where to press further or walk away.
Identify where ai is already being used in transportation today — and where the claims are running ahead of reality.
Work through the workflows, systems, and trade-offs behind practical transportation use cases, explained in plain english.
Work through key themes including routing, prediction, safety, operations.
Work through the limits, risks, and awkward questions worth asking before you sign off on the sales pitch.
Chapter-level signals
Not a chapter list carved in stone, but the sort of material readers can reasonably expect to work through.
Where AI is already being used
Where AI is already being used in transportation today — and where the claims are running ahead of reality.
The workflows, systems, and trade-offs behind
The workflows, systems, and trade-offs behind practical transportation use cases, explained in plain English.
Key themes including routing, prediction, safety,
Key themes including routing, prediction, safety, operations.
The limits, risks, and awkward questions
The limits, risks, and awkward questions worth asking before you sign off on the sales pitch.
What makes this title distinct
Shipping moves 90% of global trade, yet it remains one of the least digitised major industries. This book covers how AI is now driving real change — from autonomous vessels on fixed routes to AI route optimisation that's cutting fuel consumption by 10–15% on major freight corridors. Not your book? Not a guide for mariners or deck officers — this is strategic and analytical in focus, written for anyone trying to understand the commercial and environmental forces reshaping global logistics.
A 312-page guide to AI in maritime shipping autonomous vessels, route optimisation, emissions tracking, and how intelligent technology is making global shipping more sustainable.
Who is this book for?
Maritime operators, port managers, and logistics professionals navigating AI's impact on shipping routes and sustainability targets.
How long is it?
It’s 312 pages (varies by edition).
What format is it available in?
Available as an eBook via Amazon (use the buy link on this page).
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