The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said it plans to develop an versatile testing platform by 2025 to join global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create an eco-friendly maritime industry. Global shipbuilding and shipping markets are hastening a paradigm shift from the existing bunker oil vessels to an eco-friendly ship system in response to the International Maritime Organization's tightening regulations and the EU emissions trading system. Following the implementation of the Act on the Promotion of Environmentally Friendly Ship Development and Distribution in January of last y

Kitack Lim, Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization(IMO), recently called upon governments to vaccinate seafarers against Covid-19 on a preferential basis since they are at the forefront of world trade as key personnel in the global economy. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on December 1 of last year to designate 2 million crew members and marine industry employees around the world as essential personnel and urge governments to facilitate the smooth rotation and repatriation of the crew. "In the Covid-19 crisis, seafarers are making a dedicated contribution to

Of the government's budget for next year, 7.9 trillion won has been allocated to the 'Digital New Deal' plan. The project underlying the plan is establishing a 'Data Dam,' which refers to a 'cloud service integration platform' where we can store a large quantity of data and supply it to those in need. This will serve to select and store the data accumulated by public institutions and process it into usable forms. Data processing is a critical factor in AI development; therefore, establishing the 'Data Dam' can be a preliminary work to prepare for future industries. The name 'Data Dam' is also

Ports are getting smarter. The application of cutting-edge technology to port operations is becoming a big part of the recent Fourth Industrial Revolution in the maritime sector. We can divide smart ports into two concepts - 'automated ports' that automate the logistics process from a mechanical aspect and 'intelligent ports' of which decision-making is supported by generating, collecting, storing, designing, and analyzing various materials. While automated ports(the level of automated port facilities) are being built rapidly in many international ports such as Rotterdam, Long Beach, and Qingd