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Building a Cloud-Native Maritime Intelligence Platform on AWS
A global maritime intelligence provider partnered with Successive Digital to re-engineer their platform. This ensures a unified cloud-native solution for vessel tracking, compliance, and voyage management while reducing latency and automating reporting.
At a glance
Industry
Maritime Technology
Location
United Kingdom
Successive Highlight
95%
reduction in AIS update latency, enabling proactive fleet decisions
100%
of IMO DCS and EU ETS emissions reporting automated
About the Client
The client is a world leader in maritime intelligence, providing vessel tracking, emissions compliance and regulatory reporting solutions to ship owners, operators, charterers and regulators worldwide. Its flagship voyage informatics platform offers real-time fleet monitoring, emissions management and compliance assurance.
The client is a leading provider of data-driven solutions that improve maritime safety, sustainability and operational efficiency. It combines intelligence across the maritime ecosystem to help the industry respond to changing commercial, regulatory and environmental demands.
About the Project
The client sought to modernize its maritime intelligence workspace, which combines vessel tracking, voyage planning, emissions compliance and charter party management. The platform was powerful, but performance bottlenecks, manual compliance workflows, and communication silos held it back. AIS latency affected fleet visibility, and manual reporting for IMO DCS and EU ETS was error-prone and audit-heavy.
Solutions Implemented
Successive Digital re-architected the platform’s core systems using AWS-native services and microservices. Configurable client APIs, AWS Lambda, and CloudFormation enabled reproducible environments and faster, lower-risk releases.
Real-time AIS Ingestion
An event-driven pipeline on Amazon Kinesis and AWS Lambda validates, enriches, and streams AIS data, with latency monitoring via Amazon CloudWatch.
Automated Emissions Compliance
Amazon S3 provides an immutable, audit-ready data lake while Amazon Redshift powers regulation-ready IMO DCS and EU ETS reporting at scale.
Charter Party Automation
A rule-based engine on Amazon RDS models charter clauses, tracks laytime usage, detects breaches, and auto-calculates demurrage in real time.
Voyage Route Optimization
Predictive models on Amazon EC2 simulate voyage scenarios and recommend cost-effective, compliant routes, supporting dynamic mid-voyage re-optimization.
Unified Communications Layer
A unified communications microservice centralizes multi-channel notifications through Amazon SNS and Amazon SES, applying escalation logic for time-sensitive maritime operations.
Outcome:
AIS latency was reduced to seconds, enhancing operational awareness and accelerating time-critical decisions across monitored fleets.
Automated emissions reporting reduced compliance risk and created new commercial reporting services for the client's own customers.
Compliance with digitized charter parties accelerated settlements, lowered disputes, and reduced financial leakage from demurrage claims.
Unified communications and increased platform scalability supported varied client-specific geozones, compliance policies, and higher client satisfaction.
"Successive Digital transformed our maritime intelligence platform into a faster, more scalable, and reliable cloud-native environment. Their team understood the complexity of vessel tracking, emissions compliance, and charter party operations, then translated it into a cohesive AWS architecture. We now receive AIS updates in seconds, automate regulatory reporting, and respond faster to operational events. The solution has strengthened our service delivery while giving us the flexibility to support evolving requirements."
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