A NEW organisation aimed at streamlining port-to-port and port-to-ship communications is being launched.
Known as the PortCDM Council, where CDM stands for Collaborative Decision Making, it is taking a leaf out of the aviation industry and plans to set up the framework to help build standards and common processes message sharing.
Aviation already has something similar and active at a number of airports.
The concept is based around the belief that data and other information sharing, by actors involved in a port call and future port calls of a given vessel, will improve situation awareness and planning, as well as increase operational efficiencies.
Very little details have been released about the council before its first meeting late this month, but it will initially be chaired by Mikael Lind, with Michael Bergmann acting as Council Secretary.
Lind is associate professor at RISE, a Swedish government owned research body with a core role in the Sea Traffic Management validation project, the EU funded successor to Mona Lisa and MONALISA 2.0.
One of the STM Validation project cornerstones is shore communication infrastructure. Bergmann recently joined RISE, earlier this year. He has many years working on e-navigation projects with Jeppesen in Norway and is also president of CIRM, the international association for maritime electronics companies.
While no members of the PortCDM Council have been revealed, the organisers have said those coming to the first meeting later in March represent intergovernmental agencies and non-government bodies being represented at the IMO, as well as ports and shipping bodies from around the world. Invitations are still open for any interested parties to join.
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