Articles

Perspectives from the team building vessel data infrastructure for the maritime industry.

Customer story: Data-driven decarbonization at Seaspan

Seaspan, the world's largest independent container vessel owner, partnered with Raa Labs to deploy RaaEDGE across their fleet — enabling high-frequency sensor data collection, real-time shore transmission, and customised data delivery to each charterer. The result: a scalable digital foundation built for decarbonization, AI, and next-generation ship management.

14 April 2026Read →

TechnologySecurity

Building Security into Maritime's Digital Infrastructure

Discover how Raa Labs partners with Wiz to deliver secure vessel-to-cloud connectivity for maritime digitalization. Learn how RaaEDGE's integrated security enables ship owners to collect high-frequency operational data, ensure cybersecurity compliance, and accelerate digital transformation across global fleets—even in remote, low-connectivity environments.

20 October 2025Read →

StrategyAI

Why maritime AI projects fail - and how to fix it

While maritime executives rush to embrace AI, a critical challenge remains overlooked: the quality of data feeding these systems. Without reliable, accurate, and consistent data, AI initiatives are doomed to fail. Before jumping on the AI bandwagon, maritime organizations must focus on building their data foundation. Learn more about the success factors for your AI project.

12 February 2025Read →

OrganisationTechnology

Choose what is best for your needs

Discover how RaaEDGE, the flexible and scalable IoT platform, empowers vessel owners with data freedom, interoperability, and future-ready digitalization for smarter fleet operations.

12 December 2024Read →

Organisation

The Human Side of Maritime Digitalization

In the maritime industry's rush toward digitalization, we often focus intensely on technology while overlooking the human competencies needed to make digital initiatives successful. Learn more about how successful digital transformation requires a careful orchestration of different roles - from strategic leadership to end users - and what you can do to get it right.

24 October 2024Read →

StrategyOrganisation

5 Reasons Why Your Vessel Digitalization Project Succeeds

Discover the key success factors for vessel digitalization projects in the maritime industry. Learn how a holistic data strategy, empowered crew, the right edge technology, robust IT infrastructure, and domain expertise can drive operational efficiency and long-term growth. Get insights on building a strong digital foundation and maximizing the potential of your fleet with Raa Labs.

24 September 2024Read →

White paper

White paper: Future Proofing Your EDGE

Choosing a data collector or EDGE infrastructure for your vessels is hard. There are many key features you need to evaluate in order to ensure the solution you choose is future proof and will scale with your current and future needs. In this white paper, Raa Labs gives you a guide for evaluating an EDGE solution, summing up all the key features you need to look for in a future proof EDGE solution.

4 June 2024Read →

White paper

White paper: Succeeding with maritime digitalization

Leveraging high frequency data from your vessels is critical for driving operational improvement and sustainability. Doing it right however, is complex and challenging. In the recent white paper from Raa Labs you will get the authorative guide on how to succeed with maritime digitalisation, including how to lead and organise for success, as well as building a resilient technology foundation.

4 April 2024Read →

Operations

Efficiently Scaling Your IoT Platform Across Your Fleet

Raa Labs' RaaEDGE platform is revolutionizing maritime operations with seamless IoT scalability. This article explores the streamlined process for implementing data-driven solutions across your fleet, ensuring increased efficiency, reduced costs, and minimized emissions. Dive into our step-by-step guide on how to ensure successful scaling of an IOT platform across your fleet.

14 February 2024Read →

Technology

Unlocking Shipping digitalisation by thinking in layers

Ships have transformed into data-rich environments, but this valuable data often remains untapped due to the fragmented and complex architecture of most vessels. In a recent Digital Ship Webinar held on October 12th, 2023, Raa Labs shared how our vision of a layered technology stack can contribute to solving these issues by providing shipowners unprecedented flexibility and optionality. This article dives deeper into what we mean by a layered approach and what the advantages are.

26 October 2023Read →

White paper

White Paper: Crafting a Successful Vessel Data Strategy

The maritime industry is navigating a sea of opportunities in the digital age. To succeed, shipping companies need to embrace data-driven decision-making based on a comprehensive vessel data strategy. In the recently published Raa Lab´s white paper "Crafting a Successful Vessel Data Strategy", the key success factors or succeeding with your vessel digitalisation journey are outlined.

1 October 2023Read →

Customer testimonialsEvent

How Wallenius Wilhelmsen uses vessel data

Learn from this Nor-Shipping 2023 seminar how Wallenius Wilhelmsen is leveraging their data foundation to get real financial, operational and environmental value from vessel data.

4 July 2023Read →

Event

Nor-Shipping 2023: The Value of Connections

Raa Labs is a leading provider of vessel data and we are in the business of digital connections. The Raa Labs 2023 Nor-Shipping Social Event, however, is all about connecting with customers, partners and friends in a unique venue literally on the water.

7 May 2023Read →

Event

Nor-Shipping 2023: The Value of Vessel Data

Join us for this Nor-Shipping seminar to get a front row seat to the learnings Wallenius Wilhelmsen made on its #digitalisation journey, what was required to become a #leader in vessel digitalisation and what opportunities it now creates.

7 May 2023Read →

Customer testimonials

Real time battery data

Battery packs help modern offshore vessels reduce emissions. Following a collaboration project between Solstad Offshore, Corvus Energy, VPS, Vard and Raa Labs, the usage of batteries can now be optimized according to actual operations, reducing emissions, and improving the return on investment.

21 November 2022Read →

Customer testimonials

High ROI from investment in data

“I have not seen any company that has come further in digitalizing ships’ operational data and delivering it to the actual decision-makers”.The statement is not made by us even if it about Raa Labs. It was made by Lasse Kristoffersen, the CEO of Wallenius Wilhelmsen, the world´s leading RoRo carrier, in a recent Tradewinds article.

3 November 2022Read →

Technology

The maritime internet of things

To support your needs to leverage your vessel data better, you need a modern IOT solution that allows you the flexibility to connect to anything, transferring data in real time to wherever you want it. This is why RaaEDGE comes with a built in wireless LoraWAN network, enabling the wireless vessel. Using our built in network capability, you can retrofit any system with wireless sensors, measuring anything from temperatures or gases to vibrations.

27 September 2022Read →

Customer testimonials

7% saving with high frequency data

In a recent Tradewinds article, Wallenius Wilhelmsen told about how they have achieved a proven fuel saving of 7% from using high frequency operational vessel data. The article emphasized how the savings achievement rests on the foundation of our RaaEDGE vessel IOT platform, allowing Wallenius Wilhelmsen to use high quality, reliable data for sophisticated AI-driven voyage optimisation.

8 September 2022Read →

Operations

Increase safety with digital processes

Digitalizing crew processes with advanced checklists and enhance these checlists with real time sensor data opens a new range of possibilities for vessel owners and operators. This both reduces risk and improve the safety onboard their vessels. The digital audit trail and stricter adherence to guidelines surface as additional value drivers – making this an attractive use case for many vessel owners and operators.

14 August 2022Read →

Organisation

Organizing for digital success

Successful digitalization initiatives depend on technology, but more importantly on how you organize the initiative and the competence and commitment of the people involved. Read more about how to set up your digitalization project for success.

6 July 2022Read →

Technology

The power of a vessel IOT platform

The Internet-of-things lie at the heart of vessel improvements both in operations, maintenance and customer value propositions. To make this happen there this a need for an onboard IOT platform. Read more about how the RaaEdge IOT platform can support you in your digitalisation journey.

4 April 2022Read →

Technology

Choose the front end you want

A sound business strategy is always taking flexibility into account, being able to adapt, and switch around if needed. This is a competitive advantage. This applies for your data driven organization as well. Separating the vessel data layer and the layer that creates whatever output you need, with this data as input, gives you this highly attractive flexibility.

24 February 2022Read →

TechnologyCompliance

Building regulatory compliance on data

Ensure efficient compliance with regulatory requirements by building on a scalable and system agnostic vessel data infrastructure.

17 October 2021Read →

Technology

Beware of the single purpose solution

Choosing the right infrastructure to support your long term digital needs is critical. The single purpose solutions for capturing data from an individual system will limit your digital potential as your needs develop. This is why a multi purpose, open and scalable solution is the best solution to ensure you have flexibility as you develop and scale your use of vessel data.

28 September 2021Read →

Technology

Competing on the Edge

Edge technology is one of the critical factors for the Internet-of-things revolution. For vessel owners it is a central part of your success. Learn more about why this is so important, but tricky, to get right.

6 August 2021Read →

Technology

It all begins with the digital vessel infrastructure

The fundamentals required for “anything digital” onboard the vessel. The critical layer which is required for digitalization success

29 July 2021Read →

Organisation

Taking action from your data

Automating and simplifying processes using events and operational data in realtime allows you to realize the future operating model today.

17 July 2021Read →

Operations

Reliable operation of the onboard infrastructure

Ensuring stable operations of the infrastructure and reliable flow of data from the vessel is quite challenging. Vessels operate around the world, with a lot of stakeholders involved in the numerous technical aspects onboard.

15 July 2021Read →

Organisation

Four fundamental digitalization principles

These four important principles should be on top of the agenda for vessel owners and operators seeking to digitalize their vessels.

18 June 2021Read →

Technology

You want to digitalize, now what?

Deciding to start a vessel digitalization initiative can be challenging. Where to begin? How to begin? What ensures success?

18 May 2021Read →

Technology

Why contextualization is critical

Vessel comparison is impossible without - if you want to use your operational vessel data in a meaningful way, you need to ensure proper contextualization of your data tags