A second procurement has now been finalised and we welcome Furuno onboard the STM ship. Furuno will provide 43 ships with Sea Traffic Management-compatible onboard systems. Together with systems from other ECDIS suppliers (Transas, Wärtsilä SAM Electronics and Adveto) and systems in the Winter- and SAR- testbeds, thus the STM Validation Project has reached its goal of 300 ships.
The main objective of PortCDM is to enhance coordination among port call actors. By sharing their time stamp data related to port calls, information will be available for actors to utilize in real time. This will facilitate just-in-time arrivals, increase predictability, berth productivity, punctuality, reduce waiting and anchoring times and boost resource utilization. Moreover, the number of phone calls will be significantly reduced, resulting in reduced administrative burden. In the STM Validation Project, the PortCDM concept will be tested and validated in 13 ports throughout Europe.
Sea Traffic Management (STM) was the number one popular choice when the SMART4SEA Innovation Award was presented on 31 January in Athens. The industry believes in the benefit coming from improved services in a digitised and standardised maritime world. This was reflected in the vote for STM.
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Rick Watson, University of Georgia, finds similarities between the containerization of goods and STM, the current ongoing containerization of information. “The seed innovation does not make the big difference. It is the standards and the follow on innovations fashioning a whole new infrastructure that really creates the value.”
Dr Meixian Song at the Institute of Maritime Law at the University of Southampton is investigating the legal aspects of Sea Traffic Management within a team led by Prof Mikis Tsimplis and including Mr. Spiros Papadas, Prof. Ajit Shenoi, Prof. Filippo Lorenzon, Dr. Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon and Prof James Davey. By evaluating the legal implications of STM, challenges can be identified and overcome before STM gains practical application, thereby avoiding potential disputes in the legal domain. STM got to interview Dr Song about her views on the legal challenges for the STM concept and potential solutions to these issues.
