Berthing in Shipping: How to Cut Congestion and Idle Time
Berthing in shipping is a critical stage in maritime logistics. A berth, where cargo is transferred, helps set the pace for the entire supply chain. As shipping accounts for 80 to 90% of global freight, optimizing berthing directly supports faster turnaround times, increased port competitiveness, safer operations, lower costs for shippers and ship operators, reduced […]
Maritime Security: Insights from Canadian Seapower Conference
This year’s Canadian Seapower conference once again brought together senior leaders from the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), the Canadian Coast Guard, northern governance bodies, academia, and the defence industry to confront the hard realities shaping maritime security today. This year’s discussions moved well beyond fleet procurement and focused on maritime security as a national ecosystem […]
Critical Undersea Infrastructure: Trends, Threats, and Risks
Critical undersea infrastructure – subsea cables, pipelines, data links, and energy connectors – has become one of the most essential yet vulnerable layers of the modern global system. More than 95% of the world’s internet traffic and trillions of dollars in financial transactions flow through these seabed networks. Damage to even a single cable can […]
Return of Suez Canal: What it Means to Global Shipping
After nearly two years of disruption, the Suez Canal is once again welcoming large vessels. While the canal was never officially closed, the impact of the last two years felt very much like a shutdown for many shipping operators who were forced to reroute their vessels thousands of miles off course. The disruption began in […]
Dark Vessel Detection Technology for Maritime Protection
Monitoring illegal fishing has long been one of the greatest challenges in ocean conservation. Vast, remote waters make it easy for vessels to operate without oversight, especially those that disable tracking systems to evade detection — the so-called dark vessels. But a groundbreaking new study in the journal Science, which analyzed activity across 1,380 fully […]
Marine Conservation with AI
Operational Object-Detection Models For Detection and Monitoring with OCIANA™ On March 3, 2023, the United Nations Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction reached agreement on a historic new maritime biodiversity treaty. The so-called “High Seas Treaty” focuses on marine conservation, and is integral to achieving conservation outcomes with the Global Biodiversity Framework, an international […]
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