Winning Innovation Award in enterprise tech category
[INQ. NO. 2601E04] Mapsea Corporation, a maritime big data solutions company, has won an Innovation Award for the second consecutive year at CES 2026, the world’s largest technology exhibition. This year, it won the honor in the enterprise tech category, once again demonstrating Korea’s global status in maritime technology.
Mapsea’s core technology, which won the award, is its AI-based digital twin navigation platform. It refines and integrates over 150 billion pieces of big data collected from 2.6 million vessels worldwide by applying Real Time Kinematics (RTK) and High Frequency Data (HFD) technologies. It analyzes information such as vessel location, route, weather, tidal current, engines, and fuel usage in real time, supporting reliable decision-making even in polar shipping routes. Its specialized simulation capabilities for the Arctic Route are particularly noteworthy.

It precisely covers areas missed by existing navigation systems, such as automatically deriving optimal routes by reflecting data on iced seas and weather changes, and predicting risky areas in advance. This approach has earned high praise for simultaneously achieving operational safety, efficiency, and carbon reduction.
Mapsea’s AI-based navigation system goes beyond simple monitoring to integrate collision avoidance, multi-event detection, and automatic alerting systems.
It reduces human error, which accounts for 75% of maritime accidents, and can reduce fuel consumption by up to 15% through optimal route analysis. Furthermore, it has established a data-driven carbon monitoring system to address international carbon regulations, such as the European Emissions Trading System (ETS), attracting attention as a sustainable management tool for global shipping companies. Actual feedback from shipping companies has shown that monitoring efficiency has improved by more than 24 times compared to previous systems.

Mapsea has already received AIP technology certification from the Korean Register (KR) and has established Korea’s first official partnership with the global shipping rating agency RightShip. Furthermore, Mapsea solidified its position on the international maritime technology stage by winning an award at the PIER71 Smart Port Challenge 2024, in the category of AI, hosted by Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) and NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurship arm of the National University of Singapore.
At KORMARINE 2025, an international shipbuilding & marine industry exhibition, held in Busan last October, Mapsea’s booth for the digital twin demonstration for the Arctic Route attracted thousands of visitors, creating a buzz with its live technology demonstration. With this winning of the award, Mapsea has established itself as an innovative company in the maritime data industry.
“Winning the CES Innovation Award for two consecutive years is testament to the global recognition of our digital twin technology, which has expanded to the Arctic Route. We will advance further as a first mover, leading the digital transformation of the global maritime industry through the convergence of AI and data,” remarked the company’s CEO.
Mapsea is currently an official partner of ZEBOX, the global accelerator of France’s CMA CGM Group, and plans to expand collaboration with the global maritime technology ecosystems in 2026.
It is rare for a Korean maritime technology company to win an Innovation Award at CES for two consecutive years. This is particularly significant as it marks the first time that digital maritime twin technology, centered on AI and big data, has been recognized as commercial technology on the international stage.
Experts believe that this award goes beyond mere technological achievement and demonstrates Korea’s potential to emerge as a leader in maritime digital transformation.
Mapsea plans to participate in digital transformation projects not only on the Arctic Route, but also on major maritime routes between Asia and Europe, and is pursuing the expansion of data infrastructure across the maritime, logistics, and energy industries.

 
 
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