• Overview of Global Xpress service offering
• Timelines and launch schedule
• Key target markets and customers
• Overview of the Global Xpress Maritime service
• The Global Xpress portal
• Xpresslink - the bridge to Global Xpress

• Apart from the obvious services like email and internet access, what other opportunities are waiting for us?

Normally V-Sat is fitted to grant the ship’s crew access to internet for welfare reasons, and to provide e-mail and cheaper voice traffic for the ships administration. From there the step to improve the bonds and collaboration between ship and shore organisation is not far away. In addition, ships today are floating treasures when it comes to information waiting to be harvested. Let's have a look at what can be found onboard the ship and how this can be utilized by the shore organisation.

• Icebreakers are a vital part of the infrastructure of the Baltic Sea where they play a crucial role for the export and import industry in Sweden, Finland and Russia
• A growing number of icebreakers in Sweden and Finland are multipurpose vessels engaged in qualified offshore duties worldwide, including in the Arctic and Antarctic regions
• Arctic oil exploration and the growing number of voyages through the North East passage are fast becoming a new operation area for Swedish and Finnish multipurpose vessels, all equipped with VSAT-solutions from Telemar and several with dual VSAT antennas from Jotron or SeaTel

• A discussion on the Iridium approach to maritime communications, especially vis-à-vis the recent launch of its second generation global broadband service, Iridium Pilot (TM)
• The value play of not only being able to provide fully global communications coverage, but also at an extremely cost effective cost for voice and data, an upgraded antenna for the harshest environments, and a host of features that help ship IT/telecoms managers smartly optimize their comms tools
• A fleet case study will be discussed on WiFi services for crew
• Iridium's broader maritime strategy for building important partnerships to offer VSAT companion services as well as an unprecedented fashion as well as providing voice and data communications services through increasingly smaller devices with innovative functionality will be discussed, especially vis-à-vis Iridium's upcoming next-generation satellite constellation launch, Iridium NEXT

NRK, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation gave, in June 2011 a live TV transmission from the coastal express, Hurtigruten. Not only for an evening show, but in fact covered the whole 134-hour journey from Bergen to Kirkenes. Live on a national TV-channel. And it became not only a TV-program, but also a national event.

But how was it possible to do a live TV- transmission as “MS Nordnorge” was sailing near 3000km along the Norwegian coast? And who did the TV-production onboard? This lecture will give you some insight behind the cameras.

After a decade of development, e-commerce has finally broken through the initial scepticism to become a vital tool for shipowners, shipmanagers and shipyards in their sourcing and procurement process.

There has been a noticeable shift in attitude in the 18 months as focus moves to operational costs and users start asking how they can use e-commerce to drive down costs, rather than why they should use it.

This session looks at how e-commerce has been adopted and used by both leading shipowners and suppliers in the Norwegian market.

It will highlight what barriers they have overcome to adopt e-commerce and the key benefits it brings to both shipowners and suppliers of products and services.

It will also look forward to the next ten years and how the ship supply chain will become further integrated and what role maritime software providers will play in the procurement process.

• Communication/information (automated) to shore DPA/ERG (Designated Person Ashore/Emergency Response Group)
• (Automating critical alarm feed to Designated Person Ashore and Emergency Group, thus eliminating delay)
• Bringing order to the chaos
• Working under distress situations creates easily mistakes
• Decision Support and managing precious time
• Predefined scenarios and action plans with time domain predictions
• Improving awareness/preparedness
• Training (with a systematic approach for process and procedure driven performance under stress/pressure)
• (Familiarization of systems through simulated exercises)
• (Training tracking by automated logging)
• Minimizing human errors in stressful situations
• (Allowing officers and crew to concentrate in essential tasks instead of organizing chaos)
• (Forcing best practices through systematic processes)
• (All critical information in one place)

• Better information – not more
• The Navigator – always in focus
• ECDIS – onboard every ship?
• Redundancy - essential for vital information
• Seamless data distribution
• Pay As You Sail
• E-navigation – the future of navigation

• Neste Shipping operates a fleet of approx. 30 tankers engaged in the carriage of crude oil and petroleum products operating mainly in the Baltic Sea, North Sea and on intercontinental routes
• Neste Shipping’s vessels operate in the rocky archipelagos with narrow passages, steep course changes presenting navigational challenges with a need for highly reliable and accurate positioning and heading
• The Marinestar Manoeuvring System is a GNSS based high performance navigation system which has been able to assist the vessel to meet its navigational challenges

Maritime Labour Convention and

• Preventive medicine onboard and need for communication ashore
• Personal protection equipment
• Medical treatment onboard - ashore
• MedEvac (medical evacuation)
• Health Certificate

How can digital communication help for a better professional medical treatment for seafarers onboard and when ashore in a foreign habour?

Maritime Labour Convention and

• Upcoming energy and environmental regulations facing the maritime industry
• The development of a Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP) and how ABS can assist with this
• IT solutions to assist with the collection, analysis and reporting of the information required to show compliance