Maritime Risk Symposium 2024 – Great Power Competition and Gray Zone Engagement
and foresight with the greater maritime community of seasoned industry professionals, academic centers and national labs, maritime students and government/non-governmental organization regulatory bodies. Typically, participants examine possible future scenarios and identify tomorrow's maritime infrastructure vulnerabilities and their implications to prosperity and security. The teams are a balance of diversity of experience, combining students and professionals in an interactive workshop designed to drive multi-disciplinary perspectives and strategic thinking. This will be the fifth year the
Major Gas Supplier Norway Closely Monitoring Baltic Sea Pipe Burst Probe
sharing, both between civil and military actors, states and in the region," Christian Bueger, a professor of international relations at the University of Copenhagen, said. "NATO doesn't have any credible means to reciprocate, other than speeding the work on critical maritime infrastructure protection and surveillance," he added.Balticconnector map https://tmsnrt.rs/3FegRZS(Reuters - Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis and Nora Buli; editing by Gwladys Fouche and Susan Fenton
Van Oord Orders Autonomous Offshore Vessel from Demcon
inspections on inland waters, with the DUS V2500 models. With this order, the maritime contractor is moving towards unmanned offshore surveys," Demcon said.Dredging, Offshore WindThe new vessel can be used in support of dredging operations, installing offshore wind farms, and constructing maritime infrastructure, according to Demcon."The autonomous offshore inspection platform is with 6 meters in size a magnitude larger than the DUS V2500 model, must be able to sail at sea for several weeks and will incorporate new autonomous applications for unmanned offshore operations,” says Fedor
MTR100: #2 Admiral Karl Schultz, Commandant, USCG
as a whole, but to inextricably link the U.S. maritime industry – inland, Great Lakes and coastal – to the current and future success of the U.S. economy. He and his leadership team have been tireless advocates to ensure that Coast Guard operation and asset budgets as well as maritime infrastructure needs are kept ‘top of mind’, firmly entrenched in the ‘vital infrastructure’ discussion."I think it’s important to have the conversation that links $5.4 trillion in annual commerce to the marine industry,” Admiral Schultz shared with MTR during an
Current Profiling & China’s Maritime Infrastructure Drive
China’s recent wave of infrastructure renewal has included a large portfolio of developments, such as ports and other developments, that have a subsea component. Accurate, efficient and cost-effective current profiling is vital in the successful implementation of major maritime projects.Nortek has been able to play a role in this side of China’s economic revolution, through its collaboration with a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), a Fortune 500 listed firm that has been at the forefront of the infrastructure drive.CCCC & NortekCCCC’s hydrological
Port of Antwerp Tests Autonomous Sounding Boat
we are laying the foundations for the 'smart port' of the future in which digital technologies are used to make the land-based and water-based operations more flexible, responsive and efficient."One of the Port Authority's responsibilities is inspection and maintenance of the maritime infrastructure, including the beds of the docks. Regular measurements of the water depths at the berths and at all other points are carried out, both to ensure safe passage and mooring for ships and to plan the necessary maintenance dredging work.So far this has been done using the Echo sounding boat,
Outdated Systems Placing Vessels at Risk of Cyber-Attack
areas of vulnerability are emerging. However, this dependency increases the vessel’s presence in the cyber domain, increasing its chances of being targeted and offering new vectors for such attacks. Longer term, there needs to be a fundamentally different approach to security of the entire maritime infrastructure meaning there is great need for specific cyber security research programmes focused on the maritime sector.” The article – published in Engineering and Technology Reference – suggests maritime cyber-attacks would most likely target systems responsible for navigation
Divers Highlight Interoperability in Finding, Neutralizing Mines
to maritime commerce as part of the International Mine Countermeasures Exercise (IMCMEX). IMCMEX includes navies from more than 30 countries spanning six continents training together across the Middle East. The exercise is focused on maritime security – from mine countermeasures, maritime infrastructure protection and maritime security operations – in support of civilian shipping and freedom of navigation. "IMCMEX brings together a different variety of coalition partners," said German navy Cmdr. Mario Fink, from Kiel, Germany, who is commanding the IMCMEX
Boskalis Posts Highest Profit
. In addition there are the irreversible effects of climate change. The extent to which these macro trends will continue to develop in the coming years will be strongly dependent on geopolitical stability and macroeconomic growth in particular. Positive investment decisions in relation to large maritime infrastructure projects, which generate a lot of work for Boskalis, are closely linked to this. The company sees a stable market with regard to large-scale maritime infrastructure projects, the developments in and around ports and large-scale infrastructure works in the Netherlands. The tender pipeline
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