ABB and Oceanly have partnered to integrate ABB’s voyage and route optimization capabilities directly into the Oceanly Performance platform. The collaboration bridges high-frequency vessel data, performance analytics, and asset diagnostics into a single unified environment to eliminate workflow silos. By connecting actual operational performance with route planning, the initiative helps shipowners improve energy efficiency, lower emissions, and generate verifiable audit trails.
Rapallo, Liguria | September 10, 2026 – In a major push to eliminate digital silos in the shipping sector, global technology leader ABB and maritime tech specialist Oceanly have announced a strategic collaboration. The partnership bridges high-frequency vessel performance data with advanced voyage optimization, creating a unified digital environment designed to cut fuel consumption, lower emissions, and simplify ship-to-shore workflows.
As maritime operators face mounting pressure to optimize energy efficiency and comply with strict environmental regulations, the alliance brings together Oceanly’s expertise in high-frequency performance analytics with ABB’s extensive portfolio in marine automation, electrification, and route optimization.
Bridging Voyage Planning and Vessel Performance
At the heart of this initial collaboration is the direct integration of ABB’s voyage and route optimization tools into the Oceanly Performance platform.
Traditionally, vessel operations have suffered from fragmented workflows, where route planning, onboard performance tracking, and equipment diagnostics live in separate silos. By merging these systems, ship operators gain a comprehensive, single-screen environment that delivers:
- Contextual Route Optimization: Combining actual vessel behavior under real-world operating conditions with advanced speed and route recommendations.
- Continuous Optimization Loops: Measuring actual performance, optimizing ongoing voyages, tracking results, and feeding new data back into future planning.
- Enhanced Diagnostics: Fusing Oceanly’s high-frequency data alerts with ABB’s remote technical support and asset lifecycle management to enable predictive maintenance strategies.
Translating Energy Efficiency into Measurable Results
Beyond voyage planning, the collaboration aims to connect ABB’s onboard energy-efficiency technologies directly with Oceanly’s advanced analytics. By utilizing high-frequency operational data, shipowners can precisely verify the real-world impact of newly installed efficiency measures. This capability bridges the gap between hardware installation and quantitative verification, offering the transparent audit trails that modern regulators, charterers, and stakeholders demand.
Industry Leadership Perspectives
Osku Kälkäjä, Head of Digital Business at ABB’s Marine & Ports division, underscored the urgency of dismantling industry silos “The maritime industry’s workflow is still fragmented: crews collect data, analytics sit in separate systems, and class society verification remains disconnected. Together with Oceanly, we’re building an integrated workflow from crew operations through continuous analysis to class society-verified outcomes. This transparency creates the audit trail that regulators and stakeholders need, and strengthens the decisions operators make.”
Echoing this vision, Frederik Lerche-Tornoe, CEO of Oceanly, highlighted the complementary nature of the partnership “The strength of this partnership lies in bringing together complementary expertise. Oceanly has more than a decade of experience in high-frequency vessel data and performance analytics, while ABB brings extensive expertise in voyage optimization, marine technology, asset monitoring and lifecycle management. By connecting these capabilities, we can provide shipowners with a more complete approach to vessel optimization, from understanding how a vessel is performing, to making better operational decisions and measuring the results.”
Outlook
The cooperation is designed to scale dynamically, with both companies planning to expand integration touchpoints as the partnership progresses. For shipowners and operators, the initiative marks a definitive step away from isolated data collection and toward a fully streamlined, actionable lifecycle management framework.
About Oceanly
With over a decade of maritime industry experience, Oceanly delivers a comprehensive suite of digital solutions designed to help shipowners modernize operations, cut fuel costs, and achieve greener performance. Its flagship platform, Oceanly Performance, transforms high-frequency vessel data and noon reports into actionable insights for emissions monitoring, route optimization, and regulatory compliance (including MRV, DCS, CII, and the Sea Cargo Charter). Alongside Oceanly Enterprise for streamlined fleet management, covering procurement, maintenance, and dry-dock planning, and specialized tools like ShaPoLi and ECOPAC, Oceanly provides an end-to-end service combining hardware installation, data acquisition, and advanced analytics to make shipping smarter and future-ready.
Source: Oceanly