The maritime industry must move faster to support seafarers and shore-based teams with digital tools capable of reducing operational risk, as vessels become larger, cargo values rise, and crews face growing technical and regulatory demands, according to ShipIn Systems founder and CEO, Osher Perry.

Contributing to Capital Link’s Spotlight Podcast during this year’s Posidonia, Mr. Perry said shipping is entering a new era of operational complexity that traditional safety methods were never built for.

Audits, inspections, and reporting capture a vessel only at fixed points in time and depend on issues being logged after they occur, leaving long stretches of the operation unseen. As fleets grow larger and more complex, those blind spots are where risk accumulates.

“Vessels have become significantly bigger and carry a lot more cargo and therefore more risk, but crew size has not followed the same trend,” said Mr. Perry. “Crews are facing new machinery, new fuels, new regulatory requirements, and growing operational demands. The industry needs to focus on what is happening onboard vessels in real time and provide better support to the people responsible for its safe operation.”

Mr. Perry said that for shipowners and managers, compliance starts with visibility. In other industrial sectors, high-value assets like commercial vehicle fleets, heavy equipment, and distribution centers are run on live operational data, automated alerts, and continuous performance feedback.

Many vessels still operate without that same line of sight, despite the value of the cargo and crew aboard. Closing that gap is what turns compliance from a periodic, after-the-fact exercise into a continuous one. When visual intelligence surfaces anomalies in real time, crews and shore teams can act on them immediately and stay ahead of requirements.

“An operations manager in a modern industrial facility would expect to have a control room providing live information on safety, efficiency, downtime, and operational performance,” said Mr. Perry. “A ship’s captain is responsible for an asset of enormous value and complexity, yet often does not have the same level of information to support their decision-making.”

Mr. Perry concluded, “The opportunity now is to support those crews, helping them identify risks faster, act earlier, and reduce preventable losses.”

ShipIn supports around 1,500 vessels and has been adopted by nearly 100 international shipowners. Its FleetVision™ platform turns the cameras already onboard into a source of operational intelligence, applying AI-powered visual analytics to help crews and shore teams catch risks early and keep operations running to standard.

By surfacing what is happening across the fleet in real-time and connecting ship and shore around it, FleetVision helps prevent incidents before they occur rather than just record them after. The platform spans safety management, bridge conduct and navigation, technical management, physical security, and MARPOL and environmental compliance, demonstrating broad industry trust in its effectiveness.