Some of
the world’s biggest maritime cargo carriers are joining forces with the world’s
first industrial safety technology accelerator to launch a new innovation
initiative to reduce cargo loss at sea.
Evergreen
Line, HMM, Maersk, the Offen Group, ONE (Ocean Network Express), Seaspan as
well as Lloyd’s Register are joining forces with Safetytech Accelerator to find
and advance technology innovations from across maritime and other industrial
sectors to reduce the incidence and
impact of cargo fires or cargo loss overboard.
The
scale and breadth of the challenges facing operators is growing and continues
to evolve.
The
Initiative has a broad scope encompassing three significant topics of concern. The first relates to onboard cargo control,
including whether cargo has been properly, loaded, secured and monitored during
transit. The second area covers the
ability to detect fire onboard and stop its spread through effective onboard
response, particularly on large container ships and car-carriers. The third
relates to the challenges created by the
increasing scale of vessels.
Global
Containerships Segment Director at Lloyd’s Register (LR), and Chair of the
Maritime Cargo Fire and Loss Initiative, Nick Gross said,” From LR side, the
objective of the initiative resonates with our mandate to improve the safety of
ships and crew, as well as protect the marine ecosystem. We believe it is vital to work together to tackle the increasing risk
of cargo fires onboard container ships.”
The
Managing Director of Safetytech Accelerator, Maurizio Pilu, said, “Safeytech
Accelerator’s mission is to help solve some of the most complex safety, risk
and resilience challenges in industry through open innovation and collaboration. Eliminating cargo fire and loss is a big
challenge in the maritime industry and while accidents are thankfully
infrequent, their impact can be extremely large. Together with the Anchor
Partners we hope this new collaborative technology acceleration initiative will
help industry make significant progress towards that goal.”
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