The Maritime Industry 2021
The Maritime industry encountered some harsh days in 2021, but it also gave the understanding of what must be changed to have more efficient and safe maritime routines in the future.
The cost of quality
Quality is in the little things. When you invest in it, it's hard to measure the profit, since often you don't see the outcome of those investments. Measurement of good quality is the incident that never happened, and one of the tools to achieve it is the digital checklist.
Harsh lessons learned in a hard way
Compliance-washing on board sometimes cause accidents which can lead to serious injury or even death. This is the sad stpry about RORO crew that faced this problem and learned a harsh lesson.
Shipping and Operational Deceit
Compliancewashing is the deliberate process of persuading a person or organisation that procedures are being followed according to company policy. Seafarer's do this but don't realise the danger they put themselves in because of it.
The All-Seer Is Now Listening Too
AI model called Heimdall is designed to listen to incoming calls from all of the Swedish radio towers simultaneously and help Swedish Joint Rescue Coordination Center to come to the aid when it's needed the most
The human focus of digitalisation
Many companies are trying to replace human processes with artificial intelligence, believing that this will increase productivity and income. In the process, they often lose their "human face". The golden rule of balance between artificial intelligence and humans is simple - improve, not replace.
Packing your own parachute
Proactive management in shipping and crews involvement in procedure development might improve reliability of data and usage of checklists.
Blunt pencils, numb minds
Maranics offers the life vest for those in maritime industry who doesn't want to be lost in the sea of paperwork.
