Digital Transformation in Shipping

International shipping need to digitalize it’s operations, but how to pick the right tools and systems among the magnitude on offer?

Here is one that claim to have the answer to the question:

Or go for a mulitude of systems, each claiming to be best suited for individual task?:

And that is just top of the iceberg, there are a lot more below water.

We have come a long way in the last 50 years or so:

From ships with no “connectivity” to ships that is controlled from the office, including watering the onboard vegi garden remotely:

An anecdote from a time long past:
A bit over 50 years ago I got my first command. The ship that had only MF radio for “connectivity”.
On our 5-6 week trips from Singapore to East Indonesia v.v. we had “connectivity” with the Owner and Manager in Singapore only abt. day and a half sailing before arriving back in Singapore to alert them of our ETA and whatever return cargo I had managed to pick up.

That is the reverse of the “Vessel as a Floating Office” they are talking about now.
The “ship run from the ship”, not from the office ashore as envisaged here. .

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