Imagine you are an Information Security Manager for a shipping company and while docked in port, a service technician boards your ship to perform a software update of the Voyage Data Recorder system and unknowingly introduces a virus.

Update focuses on improved management of ECDIS and radar alarms, enhanced cyber security, a simplified user interface and easier data exchange.

GNS, the maritime technology company, announced that it has been selected by Siam Lucky Marine, a leading Thai shipping company, to supply an integrated navigation solution to nine of its 21 gas carriers.

With the so-called fourth industrial revolution comes the concept of a “smart factory”, where manufacturing processes are boosted by digital technologies including automation, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data and machine learning.

The technology group Wärtsilä has successfully tested its remote guidance service, thereby creating an entirely new dimension in vessel repair and maintenance operations.

ABS Advanced Solutions (ABS) announced its partnership with SecurityGate, affording the most in-depth cyber risk analysis solution in the maritime market.