by Dipl.-Ing.oec. Lutz Kretschmann, Head of Team Marine Operation Management, and Dr.-Ing. Miriam Zacharias, Senior Scientist, Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services CML

Data from fleet management, ship operations, and port logistics have become an exceedingly valuable resource.

This 'new oil,' as it is being called, already drives much of the transformation we see in the maritime industry today.

Future-oriented maritime services will rely even more on the careful processing and analysis of data from maritime supply chains and transport markets to extract meaningful information and support decision-making.

Data science plays a key role in this context, providing the necessary tools, from statistics to mathematical optimisation.

Here are the key takeaways from our recently published free white paper Machine Learning in Maritime Logistics.

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