Analog by default
Surveys, defect lists and handovers still travel as PDFs, photos and inboxes. The knowledge is real — it is simply trapped in formats no system can reason over.
A Maritime Tech venture studio
MaritimeTech is coming for shipping.
Fintech rebuilt finance. Martech rebuilt marketing. The ocean economy is next — and it is still run on paper, email and gut feel. apeks.tech is where we bring AI and software to the maritime industry — in Türkiye and around the world.
Why maritime is the next frontier
Shipping moves the world — and still runs on yesterday's tools.
Maritime is one of the largest, most safety-critical industries on earth, yet its day-to-day still runs on scanned paperwork, email chains and experience locked inside people's heads. That gap is not a weakness. It is the opportunity.
Two places it shows most clearly: what a ship can actually connect to at sea — our satellite internet guide — and what regulators now expect it to defend — the IACS E26/E27 cyber guide.
Fragmented data
Owner, manager, charterer, class and crew each hold a piece of the truth — and the full picture is never in one place, so the same vessel is re-assessed from scratch, again and again.
Risk seen too late
A problem is usually understood after the breakdown, the detention or the claim. The early signals were there — nobody had a way to connect and read them in time.
Regulation is accelerating
Decarbonization targets, tighter vetting regimes and new reporting rules are landing fast. Compliance is becoming a data problem — and data problems reward software.
Experience is retiring
Decades of hard-won engineering judgement walk off the gangway with every retirement. Software can capture that judgement before it leaves — and scale it across a fleet.
AI just became viable
For the first time, software can make sense of the scattered operational evidence a ship already produces — and explain what it sees. The tools finally match the size of the problem.
The thesis
Every industry gets its -tech moment.
Software doesn't disrupt an industry all at once. It arrives as a new layer — connecting the data, automating the busywork and turning scattered records into decisions. It already happened to finance and marketing. Maritime is next.
01
Fintech
Then → finance
Banking left the branch and the ledger. Payments, lending and money itself became programmable — a software layer over an industry that ran on paper and trust.
02
Martech
Then → marketing
Marketing became measurable. Data, automation and models replaced guesswork, and a whole stack grew up to connect the customer to the campaign.
03
MaritimeTech
Now → shipping
The same shift, for the industry that carries the world. Clearer operational visibility, evidence-linked review and risk you can see coming — an intelligence layer over the ocean economy.
Fintech. Martech. MaritimeTech.
We're building it — in Türkiye and worldwide.
The ventures
One survey firm. One product. One thesis.
Apeks Marine & Engineering
Independent, Chief Engineer-led marine survey practice in Türkiye — bunker surveys, vessel inspections and technical supervision. Where the field experience behind this platform comes from.
apeksmarine.com →HullSnap
Operational intelligence for maritime teams — evidence-linked visibility across the fleet, with professional judgement always in control. Our first Maritime Tech product.
www.hullsnap.com →
About
İbrahim Halil Ceylan
A Chief Engineer leading maritime-tech ventures.
İbrahim Halil Ceylan is a Chief Engineer with hands-on experience across chemical tankers, DP2 platform supply vessels, bulk carriers and seismic vessels. He founded Apeks Marine & Engineering to do independent, engineering-led survey work — and it keeps him on real decks, in real engine rooms, every month.
Today he leads the maritime-tech ventures behind apeks.tech, directing the projects that bring AI and software to shipping — because the biggest lever in maritime isn't another report, it's an intelligence layer that gives every vessel a clearer, evidence-linked operational picture. That thesis took product form as HullSnap, and apeks.tech is where the whole picture is worked out in public.
Chief Engineer Founder, Apeks Marine Building HullSnap Türkiye Maritime Tech ventures
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