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Ardmore wired AI hardware into the bridge, the ship's command center, of every product tanker (refined petroleum cargo ship); the gains come from many small, frequent adjustments, tallied voyage by voyage.
Ardmore Shipping operates mid-sized product tankers, the cargo ships that carry refined petroleum. The company spent two years wiring AI hardware into the bridge (the ship's command center) of every vessel in its fleet. Director of innovation Garry Noonan says the result is a faster data pipe rather than a smarter algorithm.
In a Motorship exclusive, Noonan credits the rollout of DeepSea's Neuro onboard hardware, completed across the fleet in 2025, with cutting latency and data loss between ship and shore. The visible change is operational: small, frequent course and speed adjustments a bridge team can trust, made before a crew would otherwise choose them. A twenty-minute comparison serves as illustration, not a published benchmark.
Ardmore pairs the hardware with human-supervised weather routing from WetterWelt and now reviews each weather-routed voyage to put a time, fuel and carbon figure on the gain. A reported 14% fleet emissions decline in 2025 is attributed by Ardmore to weather routing; the AI share is not isolated. An earlier Smart Maritime Network report covers the year-long Pythia trial that preceded the Neuro rollout.