Tag: digitalization

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

Howard Fireman, ABS Chief Technology Officer, highlights the significance of the digitalization era that drives decisions within the maritime sector, identifying key focus areas that will help industry deal with this new data-centric world.

Bahri, National Saudi Arabia shipping company, announced that signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hyundai Heavy Industries, to harness big data and technological innovation in the maritime industry. The agreement ceremony took place at Bahri’s headquarters in Riyadh.

MAN Diesel & Turbo announced that entered an agreement with Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., to intensify their joint business activities, on the field of sales, production, R&D, and EPC (engineering, procurement, construction), with the potential for other business fields to be added in the future.

As traditional risk management practices involves operators navigating large static risk reports, in addition to handling massive amounts of data, DNV GL launched a position paper showing how risk assessments can be made more dynamic, to provide improved and real-time decision support during operations.