We are happy to announce the publication of the first yearly STEAM newsletter. STEAM (Sea Traffic Management in the Eastern Mediterranean) is a three-year project that has started in January 2019 with a budget of approximately one million EUR. 2019 has been a very productive first year for the STEAM project with some important developments and publications, many of which you will have the chance to read about in this newsletter.
The project kickoff meeting took place in February 2019 followed by two more Living Lab meetings at the Port of Limassol. There were considerable efforts in establishing the commercial Port Collaborative Decision Making (PortCDM) platform and the Limassol Shore Center. This involved identifying gaps in the port call process through interviews with the shipping agents, the terminals, and the VTS operators. The Ship Tracking Intelligence Platform was enhanced with data coming from additional AIS stations that were installed on the coast of Cyprus. Moreover, an environmental monitoring plan was designed and put into motion, tailored according to the needs of the local port actors. Last but not least, important achievements were made with respect to data management, cleaning, and validation.
The project is coordinated by the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) with the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) participating in the project as a Foreign Research Organization. Furthermore, the STEAM consortium consists of the Cyprus Ports Authority, the Cyprus Shipping Association and the private companies Tototheo Maritime, A.T. DeLevant Business Solutions, and Cyprus Subsea Consulting and Services.
Also, very important is the participation in the project as associated partners of established stakeholders of the Cyprus maritime sector including the Cyprus Shipping Chamber, the Maritime Institute of Eastern Mediterranean (Mar.In.E.M.), and the private companies that currently handle the operations at the Port of Limassol: DP WORLD Limassol, EUROGATE Limassol Container Terminal και P&O Maritime.
The primary goal of STEAM is to develop the Port of Limassol to become a world-class transshipment and information hub adopting modern digital technologies brought to the maritime sector, as well as a driver for short sea shipping in the Eastern Mediterranean. For more information can be found at the project's website https://steam.cut.ac.cy/.
This is a co-funded project by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research Promotion Foundation (STEAM Project: INTEGRATED/0916/0063). Scientific director of the project is the Assistant Professor, Michalis Michaelides (michalis.michaelides@cut.ac.cy), from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics of the Cyprus University of Technology.
STEAM (Sea Traffic Management in the Eastern Mediterranean) Νewsletter
We are happy to announce the publication of the first yearly STEAM newsletter. STEAM (Sea Traffic Management in the Eastern Mediterranean) is a three-year project that has started in January 2019 with a budget of approximately one million EUR. 2019 has been a very productive first year for the STEAM project with some important developments and publications, many of which you will have the chance to read about in this newsletter.
The project kickoff meeting took place in February 2019 followed by two more Living Lab meetings at the Port of Limassol. There were considerable efforts in establishing the commercial Port Collaborative Decision Making (PortCDM) platform and the Limassol Shore Center. This involved identifying gaps in the port call process through interviews with the shipping agents, the terminals, and the VTS operators. The Ship Tracking Intelligence Platform was enhanced with data coming from additional AIS stations that were installed on the coast of Cyprus. Moreover, an environmental monitoring plan was designed and put into motion, tailored according to the needs of the local port actors. Last but not least, important achievements were made with respect to data management, cleaning, and validation.
The project is coordinated by the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) with the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) participating in the project as a Foreign Research Organization. Furthermore, the STEAM consortium consists of the Cyprus Ports Authority, the Cyprus Shipping Association and the private companies Tototheo Maritime, A.T. DeLevant Business Solutions, and Cyprus Subsea Consulting and Services.
Also, very important is the participation in the project as associated partners of established stakeholders of the Cyprus maritime sector including the Cyprus Shipping Chamber, the Maritime Institute of Eastern Mediterranean (Mar.In.E.M.), and the private companies that currently handle the operations at the Port of Limassol: DP WORLD Limassol, EUROGATE Limassol Container Terminal και P&O Maritime.
The primary goal of STEAM is to develop the Port of Limassol to become a world-class transshipment and information hub adopting modern digital technologies brought to the maritime sector, as well as a driver for short sea shipping in the Eastern Mediterranean. For more information can be found at the project's website https://steam.cut.ac.cy/.
This is a co-funded project by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research Promotion Foundation (STEAM Project: INTEGRATED/0916/0063). Scientific director of the project is the Assistant Professor, Michalis Michaelides (michalis.michaelides@cut.ac.cy), from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics of the Cyprus University of Technology.
