Ship Inspection AI

Find corrosion, coating breakdown, fouling, and damage on hulls, tanks, holds, and decks from crew photos, drones, and ROVs, on every vessel in the fleet.

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A ship's hull with AI labels highlighting severe corrosion, peeling paint, a dent, and barnacle fouling at the waterline.

Ship Inspection AI for the Toughest Hulls, Tanks, and Fleets

  • Deploy Anywhere, Run Everywhere

    Run ship inspection on crew tablets and phones, drones in tanks and holds, and ROV hull footage, on board with no connection, on shore in the cloud, in your VPC, or via API.

  • One Platform, Full Adoption

    Tools every maritime team can adopt, from crews and superintendents to technical managers, surveyors, and the product teams building inspection software, no separate ML team required.

  • Secure, Compliant, and Audit-Ready

    Data stays safe with SOC 2 Type II compliance, encrypted data, HIPAA compliance, and an uptime SLA, with an annotated, dated image behind every finding on every vessel.

  • Hull Corrosion & Coating Breakdown
  • Biofouling & Hull Condition
  • Ballast Tank & Cargo Hold Defects
  • Cracks, Dents & Deformation
  • Deck Equipment & Safety Gear Checks
  • Crew, Drone & ROV Imagery
“Achieving positive results using AI in a lab environment is easy, but the real challenge comes when scaling the solution across a network like ours without disrupting day-to-day operations. Our partnership with Roboflow is allowing us to do just that.”

Asim Ghanchi

AVP of Technology, BNSF

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Talk to a Vision AI engineer who's shipped in maritime.

Bring us your toughest vessel inspection problem and we'll map a working solution.

Ask us about:

  • Solution architecture that fits your fleet, inspection routines, and reporting tools
  • A live demo on your own crew, drone, or ROV images
  • Deployment options: on board, edge, cloud, on-prem, or VPC
  • ROI modeling against superintendent visits, survey prep, off-hire days, and repair costs

Over 80,000 organizations build with Roboflow.

  • Rivian
  • Pella
  • Chobani
  • USG Corporation
  • BNSF Railway
  • American Woodmark
Start where you are

Vision AI is transforming businesses

Customers across the board are solving complex challenges and driving meaningful impact.

  • Automotive customer

    $10 million

    Saved by automatically detecting defects on the production line

  • Logistics & freight company

    90%

    Less time spent manually tracking shipping inventory

  • Building materials supplier

    60%

    Lower customer return rate with improved product quality

Inspect Every Vessel, from the Waterline to the Ballast Tanks

Add an automated review layer to every vessel inspection with Roboflow vision AI for ship inspection. Built for shipowners, ship managers, classification and survey teams, and maritime tech companies, where a fleet is spread across oceans, tanks and holds are hard to enter, and condition reports depend on who took the photos and how they described them.

Find the damage:

  • Detect corrosion, coating breakdown, blistering, and pitting on hulls, decks, ballast tanks, and cargo holds, with models trained on your own fleet's images.
  • Flag cracks, dents, buckling, and deformed frames and stiffeners, and mark each one on the image for the superintendent.
  • Grade biofouling and hull condition from ROV and diver footage, so cleaning and coating work is planned on evidence.

Check the whole ship:

  • Check deck equipment, hatch covers, mooring gear, railings, and lifesaving and firefighting equipment for damage and missing items.
  • Spot leaks, oil sheen, and housekeeping issues in engine rooms and machinery spaces from routine crew photo rounds.
  • Run the same models on drone flights inside tanks and holds, so fewer inspections need staging or confined-space entry.

Manage the fleet:

  • Grade every finding by severity and area, so crews log the same defect the same way on every ship.
  • Compare each inspection with the last one to track how corrosion and coating breakdown grow, and plan repairs before the next drydock.
  • Build image-backed condition reports for class surveys, vetting inspections, port state control, and charterers.

Bring intelligence to every vessel today. Know the condition of every hull, tank, and deck in the fleet, from shore.

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Frequently asked questions

What is ship inspection with Vision AI?

Ship inspection with Vision AI runs a trained computer vision model (opens in a new tab) on photos and video from crews, drones, and ROVs to find corrosion, coating breakdown, fouling, cracks, and damaged equipment, grade each finding, and log it with an annotated image.

What imagery does it work with?

Crew photos from phones and tablets, drone flights in tanks and holds, ROV and diver hull footage, and fixed cameras on deck. Models are trained on your own fleet's images, so they learn your vessel types, coatings, and spaces.

Can it run on board without a connection?

Yes. Models can run offline on devices and edge hardware on board, so crews get findings at sea, and results sync to shore when the vessel is back online.

Can it integrate with our fleet management and maintenance systems?

Yes. Roboflow sends findings, grades, and annotated images over a REST API (opens in a new tab) or webhooks to planned maintenance systems, fleet management software, and inspection reporting tools, or into the inspection product your team is building.

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