Ardmore Shipping deploys SteelCorr AI solution to enhance vessel corrosion monitoring and paint maintenance
Ardmore Shipping Corporation (NYSE: ASC) (“Ardmore” or the “Company”) has rolled out a fleetwide deployment of SteelCorr, an AI-powered application designed to enhance corrosion monitoring and paint maintenance across its fleet. The initiative marks another step in Ardmore’s strategy to embed innovation into everyday operations and support safety, performance, and long-term asset integrity.
The SteelCorr Digital Paint Report (DPR)© app is now in use across Ardmore vessels, enabling crew to track corrosion and manage paint condition through a unified, data-driven platform. Using artificial intelligence, the tool analyses images uploaded by crew members to automatically generate corrosion reports, identify trends, and optimize maintenance planning and inventory control.
The app improves consistency and accuracy in fleet condition monitoring, whilst also significantly reducing manual reporting time and enabling more efficient workflows. This frees up crew time to focus on higher-value operational priorities.
The introduction of SteelCorr’s DPR technology will also help preserve the integrity of Ardmore’s high-quality fleet, extending their operational life, supporting safer performance, and reducing the risk of unscheduled repair costs.
“The adoption of the SteelCorr app reflects our commitment to integrating smart, data-led solutions into the core of our ship management operations,” said Suraj Batra, Ardmore Shipping’s Senior Manager, Fleet Operations. “It enables faster, more informed decision-making, strengthens collaboration between ship and shore, and ensures we stay proactive in safeguarding the condition of our fleet. Most importantly, it’s a tool that enhances how our seafarers work, reducing manual workload while supporting real-time operational excellence.”
The implementation of the DPR app is part of Ardmore’s broader digitalization journey, including its Energy Transition Plan (ETP), which focuses on applying new technologies to improve efficiency, reduce emissions, and strengthen resilience across the business.
Read more about Ardmore’s ETP and its latest initiatives in the company’s 2024 Sustainability Report: https://ardmoreshipping.com/about/progress/
About Ardmore Shipping Corporation:
Ardmore owns and operates a fleet of MR product and chemical tankers ranging from 25,000 to 50,000 deadweight tonnes. Ardmore provides, through its modern, fuel-efficient fleet of mid-size tankers, seaborne transportation of petroleum products and chemicals worldwide to oil majors, national oil companies, oil and chemical traders, and chemical companies.
Ardmore’s core strategy is to continue to develop a modern, high-quality fleet of product and chemical tankers, build key long-term commercial relationships and maintain its cost advantage in assets, operations and overhead, while creating synergies and economies of scale as the company grows. Ardmore provides its services to customers through voyage charters and time charters, and enjoys close working relationships with key commercial and technical management partners.
Ardmore’s Energy Transition Plan (“ETP”) focusses on three key areas: transition technologies, transition projects, and sustainable (non-fossil fuel) cargos. The ETP is an extension of Ardmore’s strategy, building on its core strengths of tanker chartering, shipping operations, technical and operational fuel efficiency improvements, technical management, construction supervision, project management, investment analysis, and ship finance.
