OCEAN – Operator-Centered Enhancement of Awareness in Navigation

The OCEAN project aims to reduce navigational accidents by enhancing the performance of navigators. This support extends beyond immediate navigational awareness—such as detecting marine mammals and floating containers—and includes improving evasive maneuvers and other mitigating actions. The project will delve into and address key factors contributing to accidents, including training, technical, human, organizational elements, operational constraints, processes, procedures, commercial pressures, and regulatory shortcomings.

From an implementation standpoint, OCEAN will develop new design methods and operational processes, integrating existing technologies to offer novel and improved functionalities. A crucial aspect is the comprehensive assessment of the overall navigation situation by the operator. The project seeks to provide an integrated presentation of near-field threats and navigational obstacles. Key outputs will include an Evasive Manoeuvring Agent that works with existing ship systems to continuously assess navigational safety regarding grounding, collisions with other ships or structures, and other threats, along with visualizing advanced maneuvering predictions.

OCEAN will propose the creation of a European Navigational Hazard infrastructure to collect, process, and distribute data on the presence of marine mammals and floating containers. Further innovations will contribute to upcoming and revised international maritime communication standards and practical methods for designing maritime instruments and devices, all demonstrated in consolidated scenarios.

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

AHI Carrier SEE, a joint venture with Carrier Corporation, is a leading provider of innovative and sustainable climate control systems in Southeast Europe. We distribute and service Carrier, Toshiba, and Totaline brands, building on Carrier Corporation's 120-year legacy of innovation. Together, we're committed to a sustainable future. Our ambitious goals include achieving carbon neutrality in our operations by 2050 and empowering customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by over one gigaton by 2030. We're achieving this by developing next-generation HVAC solutions that minimize energy consumption and emissions, integrating smart technologies, optimizing building energy use and grid stability, transitioning to refrigerants with significantly lower environmental impact, and designing products with a lower carbon footprint throughout their lifecycle.

Silver Sponsors

	Motor Oil Group with more than 51 years of activity on the energy scene, has proven that it knows very well how to adapt to new conditions, driven by high resilience, the ability to change, to modernize the business and operating model and, above all, by trust in people, who are at the core of all the Group's activities. Energy transition is important for climate balance and energy security is important for prosperity. Motor Oil invests in both. Invests 2,5 billion in the transition of the Group, but also invests 1,5 billion in the resilience and the expansion of the capacity of the existing energy business which is a pillar of energy security for the country.
	DESFA, as the Operator of the Greek National Natural Gas System, operates and develops with safety and innovation a wide network of modern infrastructure throughout the country, while daily paving the way for a greener future. Guided by our values, integrity, excellence & leadership, collaboration, as well as sustainability and innovation, we stay true to our vision of the safe operation and development of a technologically advanced transmission and storage network of clean, reliable and affordable gas energy operators, creating added value in the Greek economy and the societies where we operate and shaping a brighter, more sustainable future for everyone.

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