Maritime
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Maritime
Open sea and inland waterways are the most
widely used mode for transporting goods
worldwide.A wide variety of vessels move
around the world each day.
The efficiency, safety and optimisation of
marine transportation are key issues. Satellite
navigation is becoming a fundamental tool for
bringing innovation and progress to this sector
and to many other marine activities such as
fishing, oceanography and oil and gas
exploitation, which will also benefit from the
availability of Galileo services.
Increased accuracy and integrity, certified
services and high signal availability brought by
Galileo will be used by leisure boats,
commercial vessels and all ships falling under
the Safety Of Life At Sea (SOLAS) convention
in every phase of marine navigation, i.e. ocean,
coastal, port approach and harbour
manoeuvres, and under all weather conditions.
For marine navigation, regulated by the
International Maritime Organisation, Galileo
will be an additional means of implementing
the regulations on Automatic Identification
Systems (AIS) and vessel traffic management
systems to increase navigation safety and
collision prevention.
All maritime commercial activities are starting
to use satellite navigation. In fishing, it helps
locate traps and nets. Fleet management,
cargo monitoring, delivery and loading
schedules are optimised. Even the location of
shipping containers can be facilitated, and
satellite navigation could be used for
automatic piloting of barges.Within ports, a
system for information services tailored to
each ship’s location is being considered.
For inland waterways, accuracy and integrity
of navigation data are essential to automate
precise manoeuvres in narrow rivers and
canals. Better navigation can be a major aid
to increasing capacity in inland waterway
networks, which in turn contributes to the
modal shift targets EC transport policy.
From Limerick to Kiev, Europe has nearly
100,000 km of navigable waterways. [1]
References
[1] Galileo Joint Undertaking
"Business in satellite navigation - An overview of market developments and emerging applications".
