GTT Marine has commercially launched Bridge Operations Quality Assurance (BOQA) at SMM 2026, a new capability within Safety Insights by Danelec that transforms traditional Voyage Data Recorders from reactive incident tools into proactive safety systems. The platform automatically evaluates everyday voyage data against predefined triggers to flag critical events like close-passing situations and severe weather stress without generating noise. By democratizing advanced bridge analytics, BOQA allows fleet and HSEQ teams to learn from routine operations and drive continuous, shore-based safety improvements.
Farum, Denmark | September 1, 2026 – GTT Marine, a division of the GTT Group, has commercially launched Bridge Operations Quality Assurance (BOQA), a landmark capability designed to transition Voyage Data Recorder (VDR) technology from a reactive incident-investigation tool into a proactive pillar of maritime safety.
Unveiled at SMM 2026 in Hamburg, BOQA automatically extracts and analyses data from everyday voyages to surface safety-relevant events and operational trends, enabling shipowners and operators to drive continuous improvement before incidents occur.
Shifting from Reactive Compliance to Proactive Safety
For over two decades, VDRs have served as the maritime industry’s “black box,” providing a trusted evidentiary record primarily relied upon by regulatory bodies and investigators after accidents happen. BOQA leverages this existing onboard data infrastructure, transforming continuous data capture into actionable intelligence for shore-based safety teams and ship crews.
Rather than forcing safety managers to manually sift through massive volumes of raw voyage data, the system automatically evaluates relevant inputs against predefined, customizable safety triggers.
Automated Insights and Intelligent Filtering
The system is engineered to isolate meaningful operational events while filtering out noise, transient fluctuations, and false alarms. Depending on the specific vessel type and available data feeds, BOQA tracks a comprehensive suite of critical maritime parameters:
- Navigation & Proximity: Potentially dangerous close-passing situations, accounting for variables such as Closest Point of Approach (CPA), vessel length, speed, and local water depth.
- Vessel Dynamics: Excessive rates of turn, rudder angles, abnormal heading changes, rolling, and sustained heel.
- Environmental & Operational Stress: Severe true wind conditions and excessive speed in shallow waters.
- Collision & Grounding Risk: Sudden decelerations that could indicate a potential collision or grounding event.
By incorporating operational context into its algorithms, such as tailoring heading and rate-of-turn thresholds to specific vessel classes and operating speeds, BOQA ensures that marine, Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality (HSEQ), and fleet management teams receive high-fidelity insights rather than data fatigue.
Democratizing Advanced Fleet Safety Analytics
Historically, advanced bridge operations quality assurance programs have been bespoke, complex, and cost-prohibitive, restricting adoption to only the largest shipping conglomerates. By integrating BOQA directly into the Safety Insights by Danelec ecosystem, GTT Marine is opening proactive bridge analytics to a much broader range of shipowners and operators.
“VDRs transformed maritime safety by giving the industry a trusted record of what happened when something went wrong. By leveraging that same foundation to provide safety insight while operations are still going right, BOQA ensures that every voyage becomes an opportunity to improve the next one,” said Christian Kock, Executive Vice President of Safety at GTT Marine. “With BOQA, we can make proactive use of VDR data available much more broadly and give operators a practical way to learn from everyday voyages, not only serious incidents.”
Next Steps for Fleet Operators
The solution merges Danelec’s long-standing expertise in VDR technology and marine data capture with GTT Marine’s broader vision of converting onboard data into an active component of the digital safety ecosystem.
Industry professionals attending SMM 2026 can explore live demonstrations and technical breakdowns of the BOQA solution by visiting GTT Marine in Hall B6, Stand 525.
About GTT Marine
GTT Marine is a leading provider of advanced technologies and digital solutions that optimize vessel performance and support the maritime industry’s decarbonization journey. Part of the GTT Group, a global technology and engineering expert in liquefied gas containment technologies and low-carbon maritime solutions, GTT Marine connects ship and shore through a fully agnostic operational ecosystem powered by trusted vessel data.
Its portfolio combines onboard technologies, including Voyage Data Recorders (VDRs), Shaft Power Meters, and data infrastructure, with digital solutions for voyage optimization, fuel efficiency, emissions compliance, and AI-driven performance analytics. With more than 17,000 solutions deployed across vessels worldwide, GTT Marine helps shipowners and operators make smarter operational decisions, simplify fleet management, and generate measurable operational and commercial gains.
Source: GTT Marine