Maritime software provider NAPA has recently launched an AI-powered Permit to Work dashboard within its NAPA Fleet Intelligence cloud solution.

Virgin Voyages and The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection were among the first to adopt the technology, the company said in a press release.

The dashboard has been designed to give all shoreside fleet managers and safety officers an interface for permit analytics, allowing them to describe all the data views that they need in plain English and also receive interactive, customizable dashboards across multiple vessels instantaneously.

“Managing permit activity across a fleet used to mean waiting for reports or trawling through data manually,” said Marco Carsjens, fleet captain at Virgin Voyages.

The launch coincides with the International Maritime Organization’s Day of the Seafarer.

Research by the International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network found that 54 percent of seafarers report an increase in their workloads, along with other manual administrative tasks accounting for up to 20 percent of crew time.

NAPA said its own benchmarking indicates that the digitizing record-keeping can recover up to 2,000 administrative hours per ship per year.

The AI functionality is part of a broader multi-year roadmap for NAPA Fleet Intelligence.

The AI model has been trained on the structure of permit data rather than operational data, meaning that the raw fleet data does not pass through the AI layer when queries are processed.