Paris, France | December 9 – SMT Shipping, a leading global bulk cargo operator, has taken a significant step in fleet digitalization by implementing Spinergie’s Smart Fleet Management (SFM) system across approximately 30 of its vessels. The move is designed to drastically reduce the administrative burden on crew members while simultaneously ensuring highly accurate and standardized data for internal teams and evolving regulatory compliance requirements.
The transition from traditional, time-consuming manual processes to digital reporting directly addresses one of the most persistent operational pain points in maritime: repetitive data entry.
The Digital Solution: Efficiency and Accuracy
Spinergie’s SFM system is engineered to simplify and standardize reporting across any fleet. The core functionality that is driving efficiency gains for SMT Shipping includes:
- Single-Entry Reporting: Crew members now enter data only once. The system automatically populates this information across all necessary outputs, including internal teams, charterers, weather routing providers, and regulatory verifiers. This eliminates the need for crews to fill out multiple forms with identical information.
- Robust Quality Control: The system incorporates guided manual data entry and robust quality control checks at the point of input. This is crucial for emissions and performance reporting, as it significantly reduces errors, minimizes rework, and ensures data integrity essential for compliance.
Fleet feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. The Master of M/V Caline C confirmed the value proposition: “The programme has streamlined data entry by allowing information to be recorded once and reflected across multiple reports. This has significantly reduced duplication and improved consistency of the data.”
The Impact on Emissions and Operations
While the immediate benefit is reduced crew workload and improved data consistency, the strategic implication for the bunkering and regulatory sector lies in the quality of the emission data.
Jack Madden, UK Team Lead, Client Success at Spinergie, emphasized the foundational link between crew well-being and operational performance:
“One of their most persistent challenges is the significant time crews spend on reporting tasks, especially reporting the same data repeatedly. When you make life easier for the crew, you set the foundation for a more efficient and safer fleet.”
For a company like SMT Shipping, which operates a diverse global fleet focusing on highly efficient geared bulk carriers and specialized self-unloading vessels, accurate, real-time data is essential for managing fuel consumption, calculating the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) rating, and optimizing voyage performance, all of which directly impact bunker procurement strategy and costs.
By standardizing data, SMT Shipping is ensuring its reports are fully auditable and compliant with increasingly stringent environmental regulations, thereby de-risking its global operations.
About SMT Shipping
SMT Shipping has established itself as a leading global bulk cargo operator over the past 35 years. The company manages a fleet of more than 60 vessels through several joint venture companies. SMT specializes in various bulk commodities markets, with a focus on highly efficient geared bulk carriers, self-unloading cement carriers, floating storage/transhipment operations, and belt-unloaders. SMT’s operational footprint is global, maintaining active routes across the Caribbean and Americas, Europe, and West Africa.
About Spinergie
Spinergie is a maritime technology company dedicated to advancing emission reduction, vessel performance, and optimization of marine operations. Its core offering is a digital platform that provides highly accurate real-time operations tracking and benchmarking in the market.
Utilizing proprietary algorithms and extensive industry knowledge powered by millions of data points, Spinergie delivers customized recommendations. The company aims to make the industry more transparent, sustainable, and efficient by creating user-friendly tools that seamlessly integrate with existing on-board systems and sensors.
Louis Jozon, Spinergie CPO and Co-Founder, “Decarbonizing is an enormous and incredibly complex challenge that requires a collaborative approach through industry partnerships and the most advanced technologies. Spinergie’s technology relies on a large volume of marine and vessel data processed with proprietary algorithms, connecting previously siloed data and facilitating interoperability between systems to ease tangible recommendations.“
Source: Spinergie