Orca AI and Samsung Heavy Industries have commercially launched BerthView, a berthing assistance solution that the companies say binds Orca AI’s SeaPod digital watchkeeper to SHI’s SVISION berthing assistance system to provide continuous AI-powered situational awareness from open water through to the final stages of berthing.
BerthView is presented as an integrated capability that links situational awareness gathered by Orca AI’s SeaPod with the manoeuvring-focused displays and guidance of SVISION, forming a single information layer intended to bridge the handover from approach to the berth itself.
SeaPod is identified in the announcement as Orca AI’s digital watchkeeper, while SVISION is named as Samsung Heavy Industries’ berthing assistance system, and the commercial launch was reported on 26 October 2026.
The product and the partnership
The launch was described by the companies as a major milestone in their strategic partnership and marks the commercial availability of a joined system that the vendors say covers the vessel’s passage from open water to berth using a shared, AI-enabled awareness layer.
Orca AI’s description of SeaPod as a digital watchkeeper and SHI’s SVISION as a berthing assistance product frames BerthView as a combination of continuous monitoring and berthing-specific guidance rather than as an entirely new standalone sensor suite.
Commercial implications
By putting the two systems into commercial operation under the single name BerthView, the partners signal an intent to offer ship operators a through-the-approach toolset that maintains situational context as control shifts from passage planning to final berthing actions.
The move was presented in the report as the latest stage of cooperation between the companies and indicates a commercialisation of integration work that aligns Orca AI’s autonomous-watch concepts with Samsung Heavy Industries’ shipyard and systems expertise.
The companies have framed BerthView as delivering a continuous layer of AI-powered situational awareness that reaches “from open water through to the final stages of berthing”, language used in the announcement to clarify the system’s operational scope.
Sources carried the account of Orca AI’s announcement on 26 October 2026, noting the commercial launch and the partners involved, and the report identified the launch as a significant step in the firms’ strategic collaboration.