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Focus
Maritime
Digitalisation
Open innovation, A
recent joint study titled
‘The Network Effect:
Strategising Connectivity at
acceptance, British satellite telecommunications
Sea for Maximum Impact’ by
company Inmarsat and maritime
resilience big consultancy company Thetius reported
that the demand for connectivity is
exponentially growing as terrestrial
gains of maritime and satellite connectivity technologies
have already helped shipping to
advance its digital capabilities at sea
and technologies such as artificial
digitalisation yet intelligence (AI) and big data analytics
gather momentum.
“The development of satellite
connectivity in recent decades has
From a comparatively conservative industry, maritime helped to propel shipping into the digital
logistics has grown to have a vibrant startup ecosystem era. Yet as the maritime regulatory
landscape evolves, and shipowners place
through open innovation, attracted tech giants and brought ever-greater emphasis on crew welfare,
resilience to its stakeholders with digitalising operations decarbonisation and digitalisation,
across ports, terminals and shipping companies. However, demand for connectivity is soaring,”
writes Ben Palmer, President, Inmarsat
leaders need to further articulate the vision for why it Maritime in its forward.
wants digitalisation. According to another Inmarsat
study, maritime data usage associated
Libin Chacko Kurian with shipboard business applications
increased by 131 percent from June 2021
to June 2022, with crew-related data
consumption growing by 149 percent

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