I work at a company (https://www.stage3systems.com https://www.stage3systems.com) that builds software for the marine shipping industry. Currently we are expan

I work at a company (https://www.stage3systems.com https://www.stage3systems.com) that builds software for the marine shipping industry. Currently we are expanding one of our products for a large container ship owner so we can import these loading condition files into the product for both long-term analysis and also short-term alerting. Once this project is complete, a fleet superintendent will be able to set up alerts so that they get a push notification when we calculate that a load is risky or unbalanced. Hopefully this sort of thing will add an extra layer of validation before a ship sails from port. Fortunately, for our customer, they build quite robust ships and do not skimp on cost. But due to the economics of shipping right now, a number of owners in the world cut costs wherever they can. This includes reducing the amount of steel used in critical support beams which could increase the risk of a vessel breaking in half [1]. Sadly this makes a hack like this even more risky, because the combination of marginal errors, bad weather and a frail ship could be more than enough to cause a big problem. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOL_Comfort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOL_Comfort