Tag: Safety
Unanswered questions about FuelEU
* Not available to join? Register to receive the webinar recording! 📅 November 26th, Tuesday 🕒 08.00 – 08.30 UK (GMT) / 09.00 – 09.30 Central Europe (CET) / 10.00 – 10.30 Finland (EET) With FuelEU Maritime regulations set to take effect from January 1st, 2025, the shipping industry faces numerous unanswered questions. This […]
Read ArticleOctober 21, 2024
CSRD: Decoding shipping’s ESG era ahead of EU’s landmark directive
The new CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), and the related with European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), came into effect in January 2024. Are you ready? To succeed in the ESG era, companies will need to make the most of their data to optimize and improve operations. Electronic logbooks can help them do just that. CSRD […]
Read ArticleDecember 7, 2023
Anthony Veder deploys NAPA Logbook to ease shipboard reporting and enhance efficiency and sustainability across fleet
Electronic logbooks to help streamline reporting, and reduce workload for seafarers, while optimizing operations for greater safety and efficiency. Helsinki, Finland, 28 November 2023: NAPA, a global provider of maritime software and data services, has entered an agreement with Anthony Veder, a world-leading gas shipping company, to install the next-generation electronic reporting and data integration […]
Read ArticleNovember 28, 2023
Five actions to improve operational efficiency in shipping
The Global Maritime Forum’s latest Ambition Statement on Operational Efficiency, of which NAPA is a signatory, outlines five key areas where the shipping industry can act today to substantially reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This is a powerful reminder that much progress on decarbonization can be low-risk, high reward, and high impact – if […]
Read ArticleOctober 19, 2023
MEPC 80 has spoken, but what shipping does next will speak loudest
The full outcome of the IMO’s historic agreement on shipping’s decarbonization will be defined by what the industry decides to do next. Although not as categorical as many had hoped, the new strategy’s enhanced ambition calls for immediate action – and a lot can be done already. It may not be perfect, but the IMO’s […]
Read ArticleAugust 10, 2023
More robust solution to mitigate flooding risks
NAPA’s innovation for the EU-funded FLARE project improves flooding-related situational awareness onboard passenger ships and further advances emergency support systems to avert casualties. Watch video: Every year more than 100 million passengers travel by ship, making calls to European Union ports, and enjoying the allure of the open seas. And accidents are exceedingly rare — […]
Read ArticleJuly 10, 2023
How understanding your operational patterns can help prevent groundings
Groundings are one of the most frequent types of navigational accidents, and they can lead to dramatic consequences for people and the environment. The latest advances in digital technology can help prevent such incidents, and NAPA has pioneered a system which uses operational patterns to detect ship grounding risk. The key conclusions of our research […]
Read ArticleOctober 10, 2022
NAPA outlines collaborative pathways for safer and faster maritime decarbonization
Helsinki (Finland), 1st September 2022: As the maritime industry steps up collaboration to address its decarbonization challenge, making it work in practice will rely on digital tools that are already available today. Leaders at NAPA, a global digital technology provider for the maritime sector, underline that data is central to effective collaboration, supporting the safe and […]
Read ArticleSeptember 1, 2022
How a new way of monitoring flooding risk increases safety onboard passenger ships – case studies
In a previous blog, we described how NAPA has developed an innovative framework to conduct a rapid assessment and real-time monitoring of operational flooding risks for passenger ships. In this article, we go beyond theory and look at two case studies that showcase how this new approach will work in practice and improve the safety […]
Read ArticleAugust 11, 2022
How vulnerable is your vessel to flooding? A new framework to monitor risk proactively
Taking ship safety to new heights, NAPA has developed an innovative framework to enable passenger ships to assess and monitor operational flooding risks rapidly and proactively. Building on NAPA’s experience with the development and deployment of its Emergency Computer, this new framework is a significant development as it enables risk to be calculated more accurately […]
Read ArticleJuly 13, 2022