Monitoring, Control & Digitalisation

Japanese shipbuilder Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine & Engineering (SHI-ME) has selected structural monitoring systems that rely on fibre optic based Fibre Bragg Grating (FBG) technology for two Aframax newbuildings.

Lloyd’s Register (LR) has granted Digital Twin Ready Approval in Principle to Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for its Smart Ship Solution, SVESSEL® CBM and S-Fugas® (Samsung Fuel Gas) System.

Wärtsilä Voyage will deliver the next generation navigational simulator for Singapore’s Centre of Excellence in Maritime Safety (CEMS) to prepare seafarers for shore-based remote management of vessels and autonomous ship operations.

Ultra-deepwater drillship VALARIS DS-12 has become the first vessel in the world to receive the ABS Enhanced Electrical System Notation EHS-E.

MJR Power and Automation has successfully replaced a second ballast control system for Stena Line.

ABS has awarded ABS CyberSafety product design assessment (PDA) to the DS4 Smart Platform developed by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME).

German equipment supplier Raytheon Anschütz is introducing an electronic logbook for ships. The eLog records INS or AIS data automatically, which can be combined with manually entered data to provide secure, high-quality…

ABB has championed its newly developed Ability Marine Pilot Vision, highlighting how the increasing digitalisation and automation of the shipping industry can transform seafarers’ lives.

NAPA has launched a new onboard stability solution for the passenger shipping sector, a replacement for its NAPA Loading Computer.

Norwegian technology company Vissim has teamed up with the Thai Government to help skippers safely navigate Thailand’s west coast and on the lower Gulf of Thailand.