Splash Singapore: Heidelberg’s Willem Vermaat on when the algorithm looks away

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Willem Vermaat, shipping director at Heidelberg Materials Trading, heads to Splash Singapore next month arguing that better technology will make shipping more transparent, but that the hardest chartering decisions will still come down to human judgement. Greater transparency rather than artificial intelligence itself could prove the most important technological development for shipping over the coming …

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