For six days, the 400-metre-long and 59-metre-wide Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal, one of the world's most important waterways. The container ship ran aground, showing once again how important safe sea transport is for global logistics chains.
The blockade of the Suez Canal caused major disruptions in mobility patterns, as AIT data scientist Anita Graser shows in her latest posting: anitagraser.com/2021/03/28/movement-data-in-gis-35-stop-detection-analysis-with-movingpandas/
Current maritime control centres are heterogeneous systems with numerous legacy components. Together with Frequentis AG, market leader for control centre solutions (https://www.frequentis.com/en/maritime), AIT is researching new solutions for more safety and efficiency in maritime traffic. For example in the MARNG project, AIT experts have developed data-driven algorithms that form the basis for maritime artificial intelligence (AI), which will be integrated into next-generation control centre solutions. These novel AI-based solutions are necessary to deal with the steadily increasing vessel traffic and exponentially growing data load which current systems cannot handle efficiently.
These new AI-based control centre solutions help improve safety and efficiency in maritime transport.
More about the MARNG project: www.ait.ac.at/en/research-topics/mobility-data-collection-and-analysis/projects/marng/).