The Maritime Connectivity Platform Consortium (MCPC) was established with a signature ceremony during the conference ‘e-navigation underway international 2019’. The MCP is an open source, vendor-neutral digital maritime domain to bring common internet standards to maritime navigation and transportation systems. The MCP enables infrastructures for efficient, secure, reliable and seamless electronic information exchange among maritime stakeholders using available communication systems.
The MCP has been developing for a number of years.
During 2015, the development escalated because of the collaboration of three projects based on the common use and further development of the technology.
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The three projects were: the E.U. projects EfficienSea2, the STM Validation project and the SMART Navigation project funded by the Korean government.
During these projects an MCP test bed was established, which now has been running for several years, and now nearly 100 organizations have signed up to the platform.
The MCP boosts actors that use the digital services to exchange public and private information.
The Maritime Connectivity Platform Consortium will be the coordinator for the provision of guidelines and standards.
Concluding, members included in the Consortium are OFFIS, Germany, KRISO, Republic of Korea, RISE, Sweden, University of Copenhagen, and the General Lighthouse Authorities of UK and Ireland. The Danish Maritime Authority, Swedish Maritime Administration and the Ministry of Ocean and Fisheries of the Republic of Korea are joining as governmental observers.
