The new online collaborative data platform launched by Bureau Veritas (BV), in combination with Dassault Systemes, does not quite provide operators with an avatar, but it does give them a 3D digital twin of their ships.

The Veristar AIM 3D platform, launched in April, is claimed to be three years ahead of rival classification societies’ systems and capable of making significant capital and operating expenditure (capex and opex) savings.