Shipping Technology Launches ST Brain Lite Digitization for Chartered Inland Vessels Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. June 3, 2026 © Shipping Technology/Danser Group Shipping Technology, the Rotterdam-based inland shipping technology company, is launching ST Brain Lite, a compact, easy-to-install onboard intelligence unit that brings real-time data connectivity to chartered vessels. Inland shipping container operator Danser Group is the product's launching customer, deploying the units across the chartered ships on its Limburg Express container liner service. The challenge Shipping Technology already connects approximately 380 inland vessels with its full ST Brain platform. These range from tankers and container barges to river cruise ships (on which the company is experimenting with full autonomous sailing). However, a large segment of the market has remained out of reach: chartered ships. In terms of digitalization, chartered ships present a specific challenge: they are sometimes older vessels for which a full digital installation is either technically complex or economically unfeasible. In addition, many operators depend on manual processes such as phone calls, WhatsApp messages, emails and spreadsheets to track vessel locations, cargo status, arrival times and fuel consumption. As such, the crews on these ships are responsible for a substantial administrative burden, manually relaying information that operators need for planning and reporting. Danser Group, however, has already partially automated these processes. The company manages eight owned vessels, and relies on an additional 70 chartered ships to operate its liner services. To manage this fleet efficiently, they now take this approach even further by installing the ST Brain Lite fleetwide. ST Brain Lite ST Brain Lite is a small onboard computer that connects to the vessel's existing systems—GPS, AlS, loading systems and, where applicable, tank monitoring or container stowage software—and transmits data in