The Maritime and also Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) is co-organising a workshop with the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and also Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) to sustain the operationalisation of e-navigation remedies, the initial considering that Singapore’s political election to the IALA Council in 2018.
E-navigation, a principle driven by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and also similar countries consisting of Singapore, intends to make aquatic navigating more secure and also aquatic interactions much more trusted, in addition to to minimize crashes and also damages to the setting.
Quah Ley Hoon, Chief Executive of MPA, claimed, “As one the world’s busiest hub ports with some 1,000 vessels in our port at any one time, Singapore places a very strong emphasis on navigational safety and continually invests in efforts and innovation in this area. Our election into the IALA Council has presented more opportunities for us to work closely with key players around the world, and we look forward to collaborating with like-minded partners under the broader framework of the IMO to support the implementation of e-navigation.”
Francis Zachariae, IALA Secretary-General, claimed, “Singapore, with their commitment to innovation in all aspects of navigational safety, makes an excellent host for this e-navigation workshop. This is a golden opportunity to highlight the tangible operational benefits of e-navigation and how they will make a real difference to mariners and other users in their daily operational life.”
The MPA-IALA e-navigation workshop will certainly range from 8 to 10 April, and also will certainly review and also create choices to examination and also operationalise e-navigation remedies. An application roadmap will certainly be formalised to lead the developing job and also the implementation of jobs to attain functional capacities. The workshop is gone to by reps from the maritime area, consisting of maritime managements, port authorities, market, academic community and also delivery organizations.
The complying with statements associated with e-navigation were likewise introduced by Dr Lam Pin Min, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Transport & & Ministry of Health, at the opening event:
Satellite VHF-based Data Exchange System
MPA is sustaining a task under its Maritime Transformation Programme, to create a satellite Very High Frequency- based information exchange system (VDES) with an international insurance coverage. This entails a collaboration in between A * celebrity’s Institute of Infocomm Research, the National University of Singapore (NUS), and also market companions.
VDES is anticipated to match the existing Automatic Identification System (AIS) and also allow high ability two-way information exchanges in between coast and also sea. VDES will certainly aid open brand-new applications such as Maritime Single Window and also electronic maritime solutions, consequently enhancing safety and security and also protection mixed-up, and also improving functional effectiveness on ships and also in the port.
SESAME Solution II
Singapore, via MPA, partnered Norway in the Secure, Efficient and also Safer Maritime Traffic Management in the Straits of Malacca and also Singapore (SESAME Straits) e-navigation testbed research study task. The purpose of SESAME Straits was to create and also confirm brand-new operating principles in addition to cutting-edge remedies, for causing better common situational recognition and also collective choice making in between ship and also shore-based employees.
As a comply with up, SESAME Solution II has actually been released to become aware e-navigation principles and also advancements, as lined up to IMO’s e-navigation Strategy Implementation Plan (SIP)Solutions Together with regional companions making up research study institutes and also market, MPA will certainly restore its collaboration with the Norwegian Coastal Administration, Kongsberg Norcontrol Pte Ltd and also various other participants of the Norwegian consortium on this effort.
ICS, ASA, ECSA indication MOU to more e-navigation
To more cutting-edge global collaborations on e-navigation advancement job and also to sustain the improvement of safety and security and also protection of maritime navigating, the globe’s biggest delivery body– the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), and also its 2 crucial local companions– the Asian Shipowners’ Association (ASA) and also the European Community Shipowners’ Association (ECSA), authorized a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the occasion.
Under the MOU, the 3 organizations will certainly comply on issues impacting the passions of shipowners and also drivers, consisting of technological and also functional issues and also promo of ideal methods throughout the market such as e-navigation remedies.
Sea News, April 8
