Wärtsilä and DNV GL sign technology MoU

In particular, the two companies wish to further explore the potential use of digital technologies, collaborative data sharing, and standardisation to enhance existing products and services, and to develop new ones.

“The marine industry stands to benefit enormously from our rapidly expanding and unprecedented capabilities in collecting, compiling, processing, analysing, and distributing data digitally,” commented Wärtsilä Marine president, Roger Holm. “Wärtsilä is committed to leading this digital transformation that will undoubtedly lead to greater efficiencies, better safety, and sustainability,” he added.

Among the focus areas will be collaboration on digital technologies and big data in classification and the requirements for their use. The project will examine the application of these technologies in areas such as autonomous ships, advanced remote services, new bridge technologies and data sharing. Cyber security will be another natural area of cooperation.

“At DNV GL, we are committed to using digitalisation to help our customers extract the maximum value from their data,” said Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, DNV GL – Maritime’s chief executive. “Enabling greater sharing requires building trust, and DNV GL has worked to enable this, for example with our independent platform Veracity which provides seamless sharing, while ensuring the quality of data and algorithms our customers rely on.”