Final phase for navigational safety project

Funded by the European Union and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), this three-year initiative is targeting improvements in the navigational safety of shipping vessels.

With support from interested parties throughout Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the UK, OCEAN has been adopting a holistic approach to a wide range of navigational safety issues, including technology, processes and procedures, human centred design and commercial pressures.

Project objectives have included a better understanding of positive actions that can be practically implemented to improve navigational and situational awareness relating to collisions and the grounding of vessels, while also wanting to mitigate whale impacts and tracking floating and/or lost containers.

One specific development aim of the OCEAN project involves helping to bring together hazard data from all streams into a single entity to facilitate more efficient access to information for navigators as part of the European Navigational Hazard Infrastructure (EHNI).

The OCEAN initiative is also developing an app which will allow seafarers and ships’ crews to add sightings of whales or containers into a database, which can subsequently be shared throughout the maritime community on a largely real-time basis.