Wärtsilä Voyage and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) will collaborate to develop next-generation safer and greener smart port solutions.
The main objectives of this partnership are to initiate, develop and promote innovative solutions that:
- Accelerate digitalisation;
- Foster interoperability in e-navigation and ship-to-shore secure data communications to enable port-to-port optimisation;
- Establish reliable, cyber safe and cost-effective information exchange pathways between all ecosystem partners to increase operational efficacy.
The scope of the collaboration also covers the development and field-testing of intelligent vessel capabilities to improve interoperability of onboard and onshore systems for well-coordinated and sustainable operations.
The two partners will use nautical data to test-bed reliable and secure information exchanges to implement standard Application Programming Interfaces (API) between participating vessels and MPA’s Just-In-Time (JIT) coordination platforms, according to Chris Chung, Director of Digital Innovation and Strategic Projects at Wärtsilä Voyage.
Wärtsilä Voyage and MPA will also assess data and cyber threats to vessels’ shipboard systems, ship-to-shore communications system and MPA’s JIT operations.
This collaboration with industry partners like Wärtsilä, using its Navi-Port for Just-in-Time planning and coordination on the digitalPORT platform, further solidifies our commitment towards digitalisation to support port-to-port optimisation and maritime decarbonisation
said Koh Chin Yong, Chief Information Officer / Acting Director (IT), MPA.
For his part, Sean Fernback, President, Wärtsilä Voyage and Executive Vice President, Wärtsilä, noted that this MoU further “strengthens and elevates the relationship from a standard and traditional supplier-customer relationship and towards a deeper and long-term strategic partnership.”
