Shipping of the Future

The Swedish Maritime Administration participates, together with the actors in the shipping industry in a joint program to create more efficient port calls through digitization. Together with Swedish Shipowners’ Association, Ports of Sweden, Swedish Shipbrokers' Association and Swedish Transport Agency, Swedish Maritime Administration contributes to stimulating projects that digitize and streamline the port call process.

The Swedish Maritime Administration’s simulator facility in Gothenburg, co-located with Chalmers' simulator facility, has been in operation since 2012. The simulator facility is a technology center that contributes to find tomorrow's solutions for shipping and maritime operations

Sea Traffic Management (STM) enables optimized port calls, real-time information sharing between ships and ports or land centers (for example, traffic coordination and rescue management). STM also contributes to an improved common situation awareness in shipping. New digitized services enables more port calls to be "just in time" and safer, more efficient and more environmentally friendly shipping.

We conduct a wide range of projects in several areas; from equality within the shipping industry, to ice navigation research, search and rescue development and the future of pilotage, just to mention some topics.

Together with with partners the Swedish Maritime Administration contributes to creating knowledge and supporting the shipping companies' systematic work environment work through methods and tools that are adapted for onboard employees.

In STM EfficientFlow, the Baltic ports of Rauma and Gävle implement efficient port calls using real-time information. Improved traffic flow converts unsafe waiting times into bunker savings for large ships in the narrow Swedish and Finnish archipelagos.

The Baltic Sea Project STM BALT SAFE (2019-2021), will contribute to increased safety for shipping in the Baltic Sea through Sea Traffic Management (STM) -compatible shipping services and by digitizing the exchange of information between ships and vessel traffic centers.

Ranging Mode (R-Mode) is a positioning system based on land stations, which could serve as back-up to satellite based system, like GPS..