Tag: Internet of Things

As the successor to Inmarsat’s industry-leading maritime safety service, Inmarsat C, Fleet Safety will facilitate a more proactive approach to distress communication based on unparalleled performance, advanced functionality, and an intuitive user interface, argues Peter Broadhurst, Senior Vice President of Safety and Cyber Security, Inmarsat Maritime.

Two years into a pandemic have opened new, unprecedented pathways for digitalization globally, making shipping to accelerate integration of technologies that were already in track. And although the near future seems unfruitful for a full integration of autonomous ships, the reality of technology revolutionizing conventional shipping operations and help improving maritime safety is closer than we think. Here are the most promising technologies transforming shipping in the coming decade.

Wärtsilä Voyage will collaborate with Microsoft to industrialise IoT for shipping through a scalable cyber-secure platform.

China Classification Society (CCS) aims to drive greater data-driven green global logistics supply chains by signing a new initiative.

US satellite communications provider Viasat will acquire the global mobile satellite company, Inmarsat in a transaction valued at $7.3 billion.

Japanese company K LINE and IBM Japan conducted a field trial in an effort to strengthen the safety management of cargo handling.

Japanese shipping company NYK announced it has started to share ship operation data with the Japan Fisheries Information Service Center, through IoS Open Platform (IoS-OP). This is the first time that shipping industry data has been shared with other industries through IoS-OP.

The Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) has published IoT Data Standard for Remote Reefer Container Monitoring on Board a Vessel, defining a minimum set of data elements to be shared with the vessel crew to enable remote monitoring of smart Reefer containers onboard.

New research highlights a clear acceleration in digitalization, ​with the top three drivers for respondents being cost reduction and operational efficiencies (71% of respondents), followed by regulatory compliance (60%).

The Xiamen Container Terminal Group announced that the port of Xiamen will be the first port in China as its operations will be digitalized, using the Internet-of-Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G.