Safety at Sea
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Apple PodcastsEnergy, world grain supplies, consumer goods – so much more: ships transport a remarkable 90 % of the world’s commodities. As the UN’s Secretary-General António Guterres said: “Without ships, and the women and men who work on them, economies would stall, and people would starve.” The United Nations estimated 400 000 seafarers were prevented from going home in September 2020; often stranded on board, as the pandemic forced the imposition of travel bans. Vital to the flow of commodities we all depend on, seafarers often work in dangerous environments. And the pandemic revealed how vulnerable they are to social restrictions. To mark the Day of the Seafarer, this episode is looking at how research funding help make life at sea safer for passengers and workers alike. Franz Evegren is director of the Fire Safe Transport Department at the Research Institutes of Sweden. Franz, who coordinated the LASH FIRE project, focuses on ways to reduce the number of fires on board roll-on/roll-off car ferries. Luis Sanchez-Heres is also at the Research Institutes of Sweden. He explored the effect of harnessing the power of AI and machine learning to predict the future location of vessels in his PREPARE Ships project, potentially a game changer when it comes to autonomous vehicles. Lazaros Karagiannidis is concentrating on how smart applications and wearables can make ship evacuations faster and safer. Lazaros is based at the National Technical University of Athens and was the coordinator of the SafePASS project.
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CORDIScovery, CORDIS, safety, sea, fire, location, evacuation, maritime