Mukaishima Dock and Noahlogy Launch Co-Creation of an "AI Platform Rooted in Ship-Repair Track-Record Data" to Improve the Sustainability of Domestic Shipping
[Media Coverage]
- Kaiji Press ONLINE (December 23, 2025): Toward an AI platform for repair data — Mukaishima Dock partners with Noahlogy to feed insights back into new-ship design
- The Japan Maritime Daily (December 23, 2025): Mukaishima Dock and Noahlogy digitize repair data for predictive maintenance and new-ship design, addressing challenges in coastal shipping
Building a maritime-specialized AI Agent platform that uses AI to analyze a vessel's "lifetime data," feeding it back into new-ship design and improving on-site productivity
Mukaishima Dock Co., Ltd. (HQ: Onomichi, Hiroshima; President: Tomohiro Kuno; "Mukaishima Dock") and Noahlogy Inc. (HQ: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Yusuke Fukushige; "Noahlogy") are pleased to announce the launch of a collaboration to build an AI-enabled environment specialized for ship repair, aiming to solve the challenges facing Japan's coastal shipping and improve its sustainability.
Background: A crisis in the "physical sustainability" of coastal shipping
Coastal shipping physically underpins Japan's domestic logistics and national security, yet it now faces a serious crisis. As crews and engineers age, work-style reforms take hold, and the vessels themselves grow older, maintaining current transport capacity will require not only fundamental productivity gains but also the creation of an ecosystem spanning the entire maritime industry cycle, coastal shipping included.
Focusing on the data advantage held by "repair docks," the two companies have begun co-creating a data-driven ship-repair model that starts from on-site data.
Why "repair data"?
Data held by new-shipyards and equipment makers is often limited to the pre-delivery period or to their own products, leaving a shortage of long-term post-operation data.
Repair docks, by contrast, accumulate more than a decade of "full-lifetime track-record data" — from a vessel's construction to its scrapping — including where failures tend to occur and how to extend service life. Much of this information, however, has been scattered as unstructured data: paper records, handwritten figures, the intuition and experience of veteran workers, and everyday conversation — and has not been fully utilized.
Overview: Building a circular ecosystem with AI
By combining Mukaishima Dock's vast on-site expertise with Noahlogy's AI technologies (computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, and more), the collaboration aims to achieve the following:
- Digitizing on-site data and visualizing "true track-record values"
By linking a "fleet management system" (electronic engine logs, onboard maintenance records, labor-management records, etc.) with a "repair-planning system" (electronic specifications, process charts, technical and skill information, etc.), we structure and accumulate a vessel's lifetime data. Combining these with the "FACT" data obtained through the repair-dock sequence of opening up, measuring, servicing, and restoring, we build an integrated analysis platform that enables predictive maintenance.
- Feedback into new-ship design (front-loading)
By analyzing accumulated repair and failure data, we develop an AI advisory function that can propose to shipyards and shipowners "specifications that lower maintenance costs" and "designs that reduce equipment trouble and crew workload." This contributes to the supply of high-quality new ships that are durable and low-maintenance.
- Cultivating a "self-driving on-site DX team"
Beyond simply introducing tools, Noahlogy works alongside the team from on-site interviews through AI-model construction to operational settlement. We promote talent development and organizational building so that on-site engineers can leverage data and improve their own operations.
Future outlook: Toward a maritime-specialized AI Agent platform
Through this initiative, Mukaishima Dock and Noahlogy aim to build a "maritime-specialized AI Agent platform" that connects the entire vessel lifecycle with data — from development and design to construction, operation, repair, and sale. The platform will integrate and analyze not only on-site track-record data but also external information such as maritime news, newspaper articles, and the latest classification-society rules and safety standards.
By establishing a foundation on which crews, shipowners, shipyards, manufacturers, and repair operators can synchronize and collaborate, we will contribute to sustaining and advancing coastal shipping and logistics.
About Mukaishima Dock Co., Ltd.
Based in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Mukaishima Dock is a repair-dedicated dock that handles ship repair, conversion, and inspection end to end. Emphasizing "on-site, real-object" track-record data, it supports the stable transport of coastal shipping from a technical standpoint. It also runs a "fleet business," owning and operating four of its own vessels and employing crew as staff; its deep familiarity with vessel data from both the repair and operation perspectives is a major strength.
- Representative: Tomohiro Kuno, President
- Location: 864-1 Mukaishima-cho, Onomichi, Hiroshima
- Business: Ship repair, conversion, and inspection
- URL: http://www.dock.co.jp/
About Noahlogy Inc.
Noahlogy is a University of Tokyo-originated startup providing AI/DX consulting and service development specialized for the maritime sector. Under its mission of the "social implementation of AI," it delivers solutions that fuse deep on-site domain knowledge with cutting-edge technology.
- Representative: Yusuke Fukushige, CEO
- Location: Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 15F, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
- Business: AI/DX consulting and service development specialized for the maritime sector
- URL: https://noahlogy.com/
Inquiries
Mukaishima Dock Co., Ltd.
- Contact: Yamamoto, Administration Dept.
- E-mail: a.yamamoto@dock.co.jp
- TEL: 080-5518-8049
Noahlogy Inc.
- Contact: Yusuke Fukushige, CEO
- E-mail: info@noahlogy.com
