Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress will power a new Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic adventure cruise ship, National Geographic Venture.

OneWeb has been awarded £18 million of UK Space Agency funding by the European Space Agency to extend its satellite constellation for global communications. The news has been announced one week ahead of OneWeb’s planned launch of its first of ten satellite batches.

COMSAT is offering Iridium Certus service to maritime users to improve connectivity and transmit sensitive information via the low earth orbit satellite communications network.

Pole Star has launched its new mobile app, PSP Tracking for iOS to provide Pole Star Platform customers with integrated vessel tracking services from their central desktop application on smartphones and tablet devices.

Athens-based ship operators Goldenport Shipmanagement and Oceangold Tankers have integrated Evo News across their entire fleets to provide seafarers access to daily news. Evo News is a customised RSS package that delivers compressed news articles to vessels at sea.

Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) has announced ambitious goals for 2019 and revealed its recent progress across the nine ports it manages.

Inmarsat has joined forces with two start-up programmes including Rainmaking’s Trade and Transport Impact (T&TI) and Bluetech Accelerator. The purpose is to create initiatives that directly support start-ups focused on IoT and big data innovation for improved safety, efficiency and sustainability in the maritime, ports and logistics supply chain.

The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has published ‘Guidelines for the Shared Use of Sensors for ROV and Survey Purposes’ (IMCA S 025 / R 022).

Nordic IT has announced plans to launch new email system reMARK: a redesign and a new interpretation of Nordic IT’s previous email system MARK5.

MSC Cruises, HARMAN, and Samsung Electronics have developed a voice-enabled, artificial intelligence (AI), seven language speaking assistant named ZOE.