Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) has partnered with French AI start-up NukkAI to develop a proof-of-concept (POC) project for an AI-powered agentic tool, with the aim of improving surveyor scheduling and management of variable ship arrival times.
Unplanned delays or early arrivals of ships, typically due to weather conditions or operational factors, frequently disrupt surveyor schedules, leading to lost productivity. The AI agents are being designed to absorb changes to vessel timings and recalculate a new, optimised surveyor schedule while keeping humans in the loop.
The agents are also planned to be developed to eventually use open-source data, such as Automatic Identification Systems (AIS), weather forecasts and other additional sources to proactively predict changes in ships’ expected times of arrival (ETA).
BV says that the new capabilities will be integrated into its scheduling platform, MyChronos, to enable near real-time optimisation of surveyor assignments, with the POC project slated to begin in Q1 2025 and initially focus on scheduling optimisation for in-service vessel inspectors in Singapore.
The collaboration between BV and NukkAI has been fostered through ZEBOX, a corporate innovation hub launched by CMA CGM.
