Is the economic model that sustained the shipping industry dying? and if so, is a new one based around the ocean economy emerging in its place? And ye
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Norway could have up to 60 pure electric ferries within three years, and the start of a new age of hydrogen powered ferries. Meanwhile a new law wil b
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A British institution has launched an initiative to collect ocean data and make it publicly available. The database can be used to link human activ
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The United Nations special envoy for the Ocean has called on shipping to decarbonise totally by the end of the century. Speaking at the Nor-Shipping
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THE rapid rise of the cruise industry is putting pressure on ports as popular ones handle hundreds of vessel calls and hundreds of thousands of passen
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ABB, the industrial technology company, believes it is time to discuss letting some of today’s ships occasionally sail the oceans with unmanned bridge
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Norwegian shipowner Grieg Star has built its own vessel support centre in Bergen. Grieg operates a fleet of bulk vessels, many under the G2 Ocean
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The announcement by IALA ( International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities) and the STM Validation project that IALA
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With all the talk about digitalisation it is easy to think that by just "being digital" a shipping company can improve its business. That's not the ca
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THERE are as many as 132 classification societies in the shipping industry according to Robert Ashdown, secretary general of IACS as the body announce
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Press Release: Hyen, April 19th, 2018 - Tourist ship owner and operator The Fjords has taken delivery of a vessel it believes sets new standards for
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WITH the dust settling after the recent decisions at the IMO's MEPC meeting about the CO2 reduction goals for shipping, and of course the pending 2020
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IALA, The International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities, has backed the creation of a new data standard to support
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Last week the Port of Rotterdam announced it will be using the STM standards for vessel arrival times. Sea Traffic Management has been under valida
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The maritime industry is in danger of ignoring the implication of the European Unions Network and Information Systems Directive which will be active o
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MEDIUM to large companies such as Columbia Marlow, an international ship manager, need to digitalise over the next five years or they will go out of
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A new consortium, is being proposed to enable a future maritime cloud or connectivity platform that will open up the path to better data exchanges.
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