Tag: digitalization

Anastasios Papagiannopoulos, CEO of Common Progress, has been appointed as the new President of BIMCO revealing that digitalization will be one of the priorities on his agenda during his two-year presidential term. The new BIMCO President will also focus on reducing the administrative burden for shippers and on the efficient implementation of environmental regulations across the industry.

At Nor-Shipping 2017, NYK and DNV GL presented the first results of an ongoing maritime data center pilot project. The data center collects operational data from NYK vessels on DNV GL’s recently launched Veracity industry data platform, for monitoring vessel performance and condition-based maintenance schemes.

DNV GL held its traditional press conference at the first day of Nor-Shipping trade fair. This year, the event took place on the impressive Vision of the Fjords, a DNV GL-classed carbon fibre, hybrid ferry.

Wilhelmsen Ship Management says it is continuously developing its digital solutions. The company commits to digitalization by utilizing Big Data in its operations. Already, the WSM has deployed various digital reporting systems onboard as part of its ship management operations, having a wide data framework.

Many Asian shipping companies are ready to embrace the increased capacity and greater data usage enabled by maritime VSAT, according to a recent Marlink survey. Marlink initiated the survey to further deepen its understanding of the Asian markets, align its service development roadmap and ensure the specific needs of Asian operators are met with flexible communication services.

Wärtsilä said that it is currently implementing a digital transformation, in order to take a leader role in the smart marine and smart energy ecosystems throughout their entire lifecycle. The aim is to increase efficiency while enabling a zero emissions society. To accelerate its digital transformation, the company has established a new digital organisation.

The Danish Maritime Authority announced that it launches an innovative pilot project, in order to examine the value of blockchain technology and, therefore, to explore long-term possibilities of digitalising the entire ship registration process in Blue Denmark.

In a new whitepaper , entitled "Blueprint 2032: How Technology Transforms Ocean Container Shipping", INTTRA, the ocean container shipping marketplace, states that digitization is rapidly transforming the ocean container shipping industry.

The Maritime Administrator of the Marshall Islands extended approval of the K-Fleet Logbook system, enabling over 4000 flag-registered vessels to introduce digital reporting for oil record and garbage record logbooks. The Logbook may now be used to fulfill the requirements of the Regulations to maintain a deck and navigation log, an engine room log, an oil record book, cargo record book, a garbage record book and a radio log.

At this year’s Nor-Shipping trade fair in Oslo (30 May to 2 June), DNV GL will be presenting modern classification solutions, focusing on digitalization and increased sustainability as drivers for change in the maritime industry