The safety technology, or safetytech, market could exceed USD850 billion by 2023, with established maritime companies increasingly turning to start-ups to improve safety and provide new solutions, it was discussed at an 18 June webinar […]
The World Ports Sustainability Program (WPSP), part of the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH), has published a Port Community Cyber Security White Paper, which serves as guide to ports gearing up to digitise their business in the wake of […]
Japanese shipping group Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) will test unmanned voyages on a ferry and coastal container ship owned by its subsidiaries. The demonstration voyages will be conducted with Oarai, an MOL ferry-owned large-scale coastal […]
Classification societies and shipowners are going beyond regulation requirements in firefighting capabilities on container ships. But to improve maritime safety, the causes of fires on board must also be dealt with at the logistics level […]
The restrictions on movement brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for increased digitalisation of the shipping industry to improve efficiency and safety, industry representatives discussed at the World Ports Conference webinar. […]
An initiative is under way to bolster navigation by cross-referencing in situ gravity measurements with a gravity map of Earth – information that could be used in conjunction with satellite data to determine ships’ positions […]
The Panama Maritime Authority has pledged to penalise vessels in its fleet that ‘go dark’ by turning off the long-range identification and tracking (LRIT) or Automatic Identification System (AIS). The flag administration said that in […]
United Nations entities and private sector stakeholders jointly launched, on 8 June, the Global Industry Alliance (GIA) to tackle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the transfer of invasive aquatic species through biofouling. The GIA for […]
Satellite communications giant Inmarsat has announced the wider roll-out of its COVID-19 video telemedicine call service. First announced in April 2020, the technology allows Inmarsat’s users high-speed Fleet Xpress service to contact crew healthcare specialist […]
Despite the majority of respondents (77%) viewing cyber-attacks as a high or medium risk to their organisations, few appear to be prepared for the aftermath of such an attack, an industry survey shows. While 64% […]
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