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2015 Mar – Hansa International News – IT for smarter ship design and operation

2015 Mar – Hansa International News – IT for smarter ship design and operation

Excerpt from article regarding The 14th International Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries (COMPIT)

The enigmatic beauty of e-navigation – MONALISA

The EU-project MONALISA 2.0 focusses on e-navigation, or the now preferred term Sea Traffic Management (STM), in essence the maritime equivalent of air traffic management, where land-based control centres have extensive insight into ship data and rights in routing ships. This shall support safer shipping, but also better logistics and fuel efficiency. Siwe et al. (Swedish Maritime Administration, Viktoria ICT) give an overview of the vision and achieved milestones of the project in »Sea Traffic Management – Concept and Components«. Sea System Wide Information Management (SeaSWIM), is the key infrastructure and will provide a basis for information exchange. SeaSWIM has four functional sub-concepts: Strategic Voyage Management, Dynamic Voyage Management, Flow Management and Port Cooperative Decision Making. The paper describes how each part of the concept will be driven, by authorities, by international organisations and by service providers. Subsequent papers expand on individual aspects of the project, including legal, IT and psychological hurdles. We may look forward to the reaction of various stakeholders to these ideas. And then comes the unmanned ship …