An impressive assemblage of Japan’s shipbuilders, shipping companies, and technology firms have got together to collaborate on producing self-navigating, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven shipping vessels within the next five years. Japan’s weathered shipping industry is plagued by chronic labor shortages and the risks of navigating boats through hazardous shipping routes. The European
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Who among the Navy’s best and brightest hasn’t at some point earlier in their enlisted career been forced to scrape rusting, dilapidated paint from the various corners of the service’s ageing fleet of vessels? Hardly anyone, perhaps, until now. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, in partnership with industry, has discovered
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The Nigerian maritime education and training system was established to provide training for all levels of manpower for the maritime sector of the Nigerian economy. However, due to technology advancement and international conventions, the system encountered many of problems. For instance, it does not have sufficient and qualified manpower, facilities
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Centrica Storage has contracted Servelec Controls to help prepare the Easington Terminal on England’s Lincolnshire coast to process gas from the Premier/Dana Petroleum-owned Tolmount field in the UK southern North Sea. Tolmount, due to come onstream late in 2020, is expected to extend the site’s lifespan
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An EU maritime study has resulted in a record-breaking ‘blue-light’ laser with the capacity to transform underwater range-finding, imaging and communication across the maritime industry. Researchers working on the €1m KETmaritime project have released a report on the potential of ‘Photonic Marine Applications’. Project coordinator, Ana Vila, from the International Iberian Nanotechnology
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With Luke Skywalker living on another plane of existence and his ancient X-Wing fighter sitting at the bottom of the sea near Ahch-To, the droid has apparently found a new master with a much better ride. Porsche has teamed up with Lucasfilm to design a starship to help promote the upcoming
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The US military is testing bullets that can be fired underwater, potentially enabling Navy SEALs to engage in submarine combat and sink enemy boats from below. Water is 800 times denser than air at sea level, meaning normal bullets slow down underwater to the point that they’re rendered ineffective. The bullets manufactured
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Merchant ships are massive — often spanning a few hundred feet — and have thousands of moving parts. Given the progress made by cross-border trade and commerce post-globalization, and the recent rise of e-commerce, more than 50,000 ships undertake nearly half-a-million voyages every year. To avoid catastrophes while at sea, merchant ships
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The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the Oil Producers Trade Section (OPTS) are partnering to develop standards for marine vessels. OPTS is a private industry group under the umbrella of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), which comprises multinationals and indigenous exploration and production firms. NCDMB Executive
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Constructing, maintaining and upgrading submarine cable networks require significant amounts of capital.Nigeria currently has active submarine fiber optic cable systems connecting the country to the world through Europe deployed by different organizations with huge Internet bandwidth capacities, at least over 40 Terabytes. Today, Nigeria can boast of about five submarine
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