Transas Lead Key Forum at CMA Shipping

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Transas has organised a closed forum at CMA Shipping for ship owners, managers, operators, flag states and training academies to discuss how to create a single, shared data environment for ship, shore, traffic control and training schools.

Following the launch of the Transas Harmonised Eco System of Integrated Solutions (THESIS) vision in January 2016, Transas plans to develop a data infrastructure for the maritime industry, with the maritime industry.  

In a previous PTI report Frank Coles, CEO of Transas introduced THESIS in his keynote speech at the fourth simulation user conference.

The THESIS concept plans to manifest itself as an industry-wide, unified data system for information sharing across all sectors, thereby enabling users to make better decisions, improve operations and deliver next generation training.

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It intends to facilitate ship operations as a coordinated enterprise, with ship and shore-based operations centres working together, on shared information platforms.

Frank Coles, CEO of Transas, said: “Transas will be able to create the environment, connect the systems and supply the tools, but the industry has to adopt the new way of working. This is why it is critical to develop the platform with the industry itself.

“However, it is not just technology or a data infrastructure that needs to be developed; it is a new attitude within the maritime industry. This represents some of our biggest challenges.”

It is these challenges that were deliberated during the inaugural closed forum. The role of the ship crew, particularly the master and superintendent and how working relationships with onshore staff might change were central to all discussions.

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The gathering of industry minds also identified that the future of fleet resource management and shared responsibility is not a question of if, but rather when.

The provision of intelligent support and the minimisation of administrative burden are key foundations upon which any unified data system should be developed.

Also the role of flag states and port state control acknowledged that such a system could positively impact traditional practices in these fields as well as in ship operations themselves.

The forum in Stamford, Connecticut was the first of a series of global industry feedback meetings and surveys that Transas will be hosting throughout 2016 to drive the THESIS vision from development to reality.  

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