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.

S-100 Universal Hydrographic Data Model (S-100) is a set of international data standards for designing and managing maritime geospatial information services.

Here you can find information about previous projects that are finished.

NELSON is developing the physical and digital infrastructure of fairways in two ways: to enable new, innovative maritime services and to support the introduction of remote pilotage.

The European Maritime Single Window environment (EMSWe) is a new EU regulatory framework under which the mandatory reports required by different authorities when a vessel arrives at a Swedish port are submitted digitally through a single entry point.

Offshore wind power is currently being planned extensively around Sweden. To ensure that offshore wind does not become an obstacle to shipping, it must be designed with due consideration for the conditions and requirements of maritime traffic.