AI governance for maritime.
Your crew and shoreside teams are using AI today, and more of it sits inside the software you already run. Shoreside is the AI governance platform for maritime businesses. It gives you your own policies, a maintained AI register, ongoing alignment as the rules shift, and the training records that prove your people are competent to use AI, so you can speak with confidence to owners, charterers, insurers, and flag states about how you govern it.
Early access to the AI governance platform for maritime and marine businesses.
Responsibility and visibility
AI is in use across your crew, your shoreside teams, and the software you already licence. The EU AI Act, the IMO MASS Code, flag state and class society guidance, and Australia's automated-decision-making transparency requirements all treat that use as your responsibility today. Shoreside gives you the policies, the AI register, and the maritime AI risk view to see what is in use and evidence how you govern it.
Risk tiers, transparency duties, and an AI literacy obligation already apply to maritime operators with any EU exposure.
The IMO MASS Code, flag state direction, and class society guidance set the standard you are already expected to meet for AI use at sea.
Australian automated-decision-making transparency requirements and equivalent regimes already govern how AI may be used in your operations.
The platform
Six capabilities, one home. Each one is built to fit how maritime organisations actually operate, from shoreside teams to crews at sea.
An interview-style process maps how your business uses AI, what data it touches, and where the risks sit. The output becomes the foundation for every policy and record that follows.
Shoreside generates AI governance policy documentation specific to your business and jurisdiction, ready to adopt and aligned with maritime context.
A single, maintained home for every AI decision, tool, and policy across the organisation, with owners, scope, and review history in one view.
Shoreside watches maritime-relevant regulatory change across the EU AI Act, IMO, flag states, class societies, and the Australian Privacy Act, and flags within the week when your policies need updating.
The EU AI Act requires that the people using AI on your behalf are competent to do so. Shoreside delivers the training your crews and shoreside teams need to meet that obligation, and keeps completion records against the AI register as the evidence that your people are competent to use AI.
Staff ask questions and get guidance grounded in your organisation's own policies, with answers that stay inside the governance you have set.
Who it is for
Shoreside serves the full shape of the industry, from large ship managers to specialist surveyors, with AI policy for marine operators that reflects how each one works.
Maritime-specific
Shoreside understands the IMO, flag states, and class societies, so the governance it produces fits how maritime businesses operate. Policies reflect bridge and engine room realities, charter party dynamics, and the way marinas and surveyors handle data.
That maritime grounding shapes every part of the platform, from how the AI register is structured to how maritime AI risk is described, so your team works with language and controls that already make sense at sea and ashore.
FAQ
Maritime AI governance is the practice of setting clear policies, keeping a record of the AI a maritime business uses, and aligning that use with regulation. It covers ship managers, vessel operators, brokers, yacht and superyacht management, marinas, marine service providers, and surveyors, and it accounts for the IMO, flag states, class societies, and regional rules like the EU AI Act and the Australian Privacy Act.
Any maritime organisation using AI benefits from a governance policy. This includes ship managers, vessel operators, brokers, yacht and superyacht managers, marinas, marine service providers, surveyors, and maritime SMEs. A policy gives staff and crew a clear basis for using AI safely, records the tools in use, and supports obligations under the EU AI Act, the IMO MASS Code, and flag state guidance.
The EU AI Act applies to maritime businesses that place AI systems on the EU market or whose AI outputs are used in the EU. It introduces risk tiers, transparency obligations, and AI literacy duties. Shoreside maps these obligations to maritime workflows and keeps your policies aligned as the rules evolve.
ISO 42001 is the international standard for AI management systems. It defines how an organisation establishes, maintains, and improves the way it governs AI. Shoreside aligns its policy templates, AI register, and literacy modules with ISO 42001 so maritime businesses build governance on a recognised foundation.
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