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Clouds on the horizon for shipping’s digital journey A FULL EMBRACE OF DIGITALISATION WILL REQUIRE NEW APPROACHES TO OVERCOMING LATENCY AND GREATER USE OF STANDARDISED SYSTEMS. WE KNOW THAT DIGITALISATION WILL HAVE A TRANSFORMATIVE EFFECT ON THE MARITIME INDUSTRY AND THAT IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO IMPROVE EVERYTHING FROM OPERATIONAL SAFETY AND PORT CALL OPTIMISATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE. WORDS BY TORE MORTEN OLSEN, PRESIDENT MARITIME OF MARLINK. ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARLINK.
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hat is not always appreciated is that it is difficult to achieve a revolution in the way that people, assets, and data are managed using the technology of a decade ago. Just as Moore’s Law has been superseded with more powerful processing, communications technology has also evolved.
Seeking solutions
Maritime communication differs from terrestrial communications, principally because of its inherent latency, or delay between data being sent and its arrival. All networks have challenges of how to terminate the traffic with as low latency as
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