Greener Shipping Summit April 2025
New Technologies and Education
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Eugenides Foundation, Athens, Greece
1. Enhancing Maritime Education for Next Generation Seafarers
• The role of machine learning in optimising machinery performance, early troubleshooting and reducing risk
• Are virtual platforms and simulation based training sufficient to handle future technologies?
• How can the education on low-emission technologies and alternative fuels and propulsion systems bridge the gap of missing experience?
• Shore based vs onboard training
• Competency-based education and personnel assessment
2. Collaboration between academia and equipment makers-builders, class societies and operators
• Discuss and define how the academia can help in the development and handling of new technology. What is the current experience?
• Building bridges between theoretical education and practical experience
• The role of apprenticeship and internship
• Encouraging practical partnerships between research, innovations and education
• The role of class societies and IACS in the newly emerging technology world
3. Reshaping the Training Needs to Deal with New Technologies
• Describing the new technology in shipping, advanced automation and control, new fuels, new engines, reducing risks and enhancing safety
• Redefining roles and responsibilities in a new technology driven maritime world and ensuring the operators and officers / seafarers onboard are properly prepared
• The role of artificial intelligence in equipment design and integration, focusing on navigation, cargo handling, machinery operation and condition based maintenance
• Defining smart ships, real-time monitoring and remote operation: An option or a future rule requirement?
• Cyber security issues and developments. Relay on technological guard systems and educating stakeholders on maintaining secure data environments