Post by NAPA

“Shipping has made genuine progress on safety”, Esa Henttinen, Executive Vice President for Safety Solutions at NAPA, writes for Marine Log. According to the Allianz Safety and Shipping Review 2025, total vessel losses have fallen by 75% over the past decade, from 105 in 2015 to a record low of 27 in 2024. That progress deserves recognition, but so does the distance still to travel. In 2023, more than 30 seafarers died from asphyxiation in enclosed spaces, the second-highest annual toll in nearly three decades. The permit system’s lack of digitalization is adding to the seafarers’ cognitive burden and directing attention away from the safety processes intended to protect them. At NAPA, we are committed to closing that safety gap. Whilst we have the data on how these incidents are occurring, what has been missing is the digital infrastructure to make that data actionable in real time. Our AI-powered Permit to Work (PtW) Dashboard addresses this on two levels simultaneously. For crews, it reduces administrative load. For shoreside teams, they gain a live, fleet-wide operational picture of permitted work, turning the ship-to-shore connection from one of shipping's biggest safety blind spots into a genuine operational asset. Find the link to the full article in the comments. #MaritimeSafety #AI #Digitalization #Seafarers

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