toqua.ai

What It Is

Toqua is a shipping AI company based in Belgium. Its core product is Ship Kernels, a next-generation performance model for vessels. It turns fragmented data—such as noon reports, sensor data, weather, and maintenance events—into a verifiable performance layer, improving the reliability of decisions around fleet operations, warranty monitoring, fuel savings, and emissions reduction.

Core Capabilities

Its AI capabilities focus on vessel performance modeling rather than general-purpose generative AI. Ship Kernels can model relationships between Speed Over Ground, Speed Through Water, RPM, power, fuel consumption, and CO2 emissions, while incorporating complex conditions such as wind speed and direction, wave height and direction, currents, water temperature, salinity, and draft. The model continuously updates as conditions change, including hull fouling, cleaning, coating degradation, and wear, while retaining historical performance for baseline comparison. The official website states that most conversions can reach 95%–99% accuracy, with end-to-end conversions achieving at least 90%, and also provides confidence scores. However, it also clearly notes that accuracy depends on data quality, the prediction target, and the time horizon.

Pricing and Trial

The website does not disclose public pricing, plans, or free quotas. Toqua recommends that customers start with a pilot project: share a portion of their data and generate Ship Kernels for a small number of vessels to validate the value of the data before scaling up deployment. As such, it is closer to enterprise-level custom sales or project-based procurement.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths lie in its highly specific vertical use case. It addresses common issues in the shipping industry, such as unreliable performance numbers, decisions based on assumptions, and disputes that are difficult to quantify. At the same time, the product is API-first and hardware-agnostic, allowing integration with existing systems and reducing replacement costs. It serves both shipowners setting warranty terms and charterers conducting pre-charter screening and in-voyage monitoring.

Its limitations are that it is highly dependent on data. Noon reports are only the minimum requirement, while sensor data can significantly improve results. “Up to 99% accuracy” and “up to 10% savings” are not guarantees. The official website also does not disclose details on data privacy, security compliance, Chinese-language support, or specific implementation costs.

Who It’s For and Access in China

Toqua is suitable for shipowners, charterers, fleet operators, and shipping technology platforms that have fleet data and want to optimize fuel consumption and emissions, or strengthen their performance models. It is not suitable for ordinary AI tool users or non-shipping companies. The scraped text does not indicate whether it is accessible from China, so this needs to be confirmed through actual testing.