Have you heard of distributional shift? Are you involved in shipping? If the answers are (no) and (yes), you need to read this! Unless you happen to be one of the small (but increasing) number of data scientists in the shipping domain, chances are you haven’t heard of this phenomenon. But, in fact, it’s one of the greatest obstacles to using data really effectively – not only in maritime, but across every industry. Robustness to distributional shift is the difference between