Because of the large volumes and profits involved, and the critical nature of maritime accidents, technological solutions to age old problems of navigation have been employed to various degrees during the past half-century.
Rocket Lab's latest customer, Spire, plans to launch a constellation of 100 satellites designed to provide solutions for maritime intelligence and weather monitoring systems.
"They found that attacking fishing vessels was pretty easy," said John Steed of Oceans Beyond Piracy, a project that seeks to promote long-term solutions to maritime banditry.
Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, which sits off the coast of West Africa along countries like Nigeria and Cameroon, cost more than $700 million last year, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Washington, DC-based nonprofit Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP), which promotes long-term solutions to maritime banditry.
As described in the book "Longitude," the Yorkshire carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison won the prize after decades of work by inventing a clock that worked at sea. Harrison's solution revolutionized the maritime world.
This paper explores the applicability and successfulness of an existing low cost UAS solution in tackling maritime based environmental studies, while testing its scalability potential.
The results showed a potential for ORC as a solution for the maritime transport sector to accomplish the new and more restrictive regulations on emissions, and to reduce the total fuel consumption.
"We take the next step on this journey by establishing infrastructure and services to design and operate vessels, as well as advanced logistics solutions associated with maritime autonomous operations.
Alternative material from marine sources, especially for concrete maritime structures, could represent an acceptable solution for this problem and it might also be of great interest for port management.
Throughout my career I've seen it proven again and again, the lasting solutions in fisheries and maritime issues are ones where stakeholders can find common ground, earn trust and work together.
