The STM Validation Project will involve 300 vessels, 39 partners and two test-beds. It will hope to be the next phase in leading to ideologies becoming standards.
Bjorn Andreasson, from the Swedish Maritime Administration, summed it up with: “The STM Validation Project is as much an early implementation as a new test.”
Among the things that will be tested are port collaborative decision making, voyage management, the maritime simulator network and Maritime service infrastructure.
The project will collect all the new data obtained and use it to make concrete proposals for action.
“Our responsibility and our role is to understand the outcomes of each activity, as a project, so that we can explain to the industry and the different stakeholders the rationale behind our proposals for deploying and applying the concepts we develop,” said Vincente del Rio, Valencia Port Foundation.
Data from the tests will be analysed to illustrate and present the facts about how much time and money can be saved, as well as the reduction in environmental impact.
The 300 vessels and the test-beds will be running on the new systems from March 2017.
Mr Andreasson, concluded: “What this means is that we will have prototypes on-board the ships and we want them to start using them in their daily work. Start optimising routes, sharing route information and so on.”
