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China has deployed specialised electronic navigation charts across more than 16,500 merchant and fishing vessels in an effort to reduce collisions along its increasingly congested coastline. The Ministry of Transport …

Siem Ship Management has selected Singapore-based maritime software specialist MariApps Marine Solutions to provide its smartPAL fleet management platform across 22 vessels. The agreement covers a mixed fleet of pure …

Norwegian technology group Kongsberg has secured a 10-year contract with Australia’s Pilbara Ports to supply a vessel traffic management system at Port Hedland, expanding its presence across one of the …

Speedcast and Soya IT Marine Solutions have completed a fleetwide connectivity upgrade on 41 Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ro-Ro vessels, combining low Earth orbit satellite services with backup communications. The programme provides …

The Port of Riga is to become a testing ground for resilient maritime communications under an agreement between Latvian port services provider LVR Flote and Dutch-Latvian technology developer HARDMODE. The …

COSCO Shipping Bulk has teamed up with Chinese technology giant Huawei to develop an intelligent vessel scheduling system. The solution was unveiled at the North Bund International Shipping Forum in …

Japanese classification society ClassNK has introduced a new class notation for vessels equipped with technology capable of detecting satellite navigation interference, as GPS jamming and spoofing increasingly threaten commercial shipping. …

From noon reports to machinery rounds, maritime technology leaders identify the shipboard tasks most likely to be fully automated by 2029. Their predictions suggest the paperwork will disappear long before …

Taskin Karlar, the CEO of Sector88, is back in writing mode for SplashTech. Last week in SplashTech I asked who commands the AI onboard when the satellite link drops. A …