by Poseidon Navigation | Jun 20, 2018 | Industry News
Model testing has confirmed that autonomous ships can navigate around obstacles using onboard sensors and intelligent components. Aker Arctic tested a wireless model of a vessel at its facilities in Helsinki, Finland, to demonstrate how an autonomous ship would react...
by Poseidon Navigation | Jun 12, 2018 | Industry News
The World Ocean Council released the “Ocean Governance and the Private Sector.” This is an ocean review and foresight document based on continuing WOC work with and for the global ocean business community on Ocean Governance. The report identifies...
by Poseidon Navigation | Jun 6, 2018 | Industry News
The Mission to Seafarers has published the latest of its ongoing Seafarer Happiness Index Reports, revealing a growing link between onboard connectivity and seafarer happiness levels. Overall Seafarers’ Happiness index figures have shown a rise, and while it is...
by Poseidon Navigation | May 22, 2018 | Industry News
Ships will have a choice of emergency communications systems following a historic agreement at IMO. Iridium gained recognition on 21 May by IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee as a future provider of satellite communications as part of the Global Maritime Distress...
by Poseidon Navigation | May 8, 2018 | Industry News
More maritime operators increased their training budgets from 2016 to 2017 than decreased it, according to the Maritime Training Insights Database (MarTID) 2018 Training Practices Report. When compared to 2016, around 40 percent of survey respondents indicated that...
by Poseidon Navigation | May 1, 2018 | Industry News
Texo Drone Survey and Inspection’s (Texo DSI) offshore division and the commercial division of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) have announced a joint venture to provide fishing vessels as a platform for deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)...
