Ferry Conference: Technology Drives Vessel Advancements
On June 2-3, 2016, the Ferry Safety and Technology Conference will be held in downtown Manhattan.
Throughout the world, the quickening pace of technological advances is impacting all sectors of the maritime business; ferries are no exception. The conference, now in its second year, will feature practical and affordable technologies already deployed in passenger transportation, or soon to be.
Topics to be discussed will include Vessel Design; Landings – with a focus on their resiliency and Maritime Weather – with fresh information on timely fine scale marine weather detection. Information management and Communication applications will be center stage. Presentations will include case studies of mobile ticketing (a major issue of ferry operations worldwide) and a system for highly accurate crowd counting and operational telematics. Training, a hot topic because of newly required competences, will include in-depth case studies highlighting eLearning, as well as innovative brick and mortar training centers.
The presentations, over both days, will feature nationally and internationally recognized speakers. The list includes, Aleik Nurwahyudy- Marine Safety Investigations- Indonesia, Mary Ann Pastrana- Archipelago Ferries (Philippines) and Vasilios Vainalis - Thoreb Sweden. Also presenting will be Len Roueche - now with Förde Reederei Seetouristik (FRS), John Waterhouse - Elliott Bay Design Group, Joe Hudspeth - All American Marine, Bill Anderson - MITAGS, and Murray Goldberg - Marine Learning Systems. From closer to New York, the speaker list includes Malcolm McLaren - McLaren Engineering, Charles Cushing- CR Cushing, James De Simone - Staten Island Ferry; Don Liloia, NY Waterway; and Greg Dronkert, HMS Marine (recently awarded a contract for New York City’s burgeoning ferry network).
June 2 has plenty of opportunity for networking with the distinguished speaker roster, and with fellow attendees, over breakfast, lunch, reception, and a sunset ride on a Staten Island ferry. At the reception on June 2, the winner of the Third International Design Competition will be announced. This year’s entries are targeting a RoPax linking ports on Indonesia’s Sabu Sea, with the winner to be announced by Bekir Sitki Ustaoglu, IMO Asia Pacific Technical Cooperation Division, who has spearheaded IMO’s ferry safety forums in Asia. The competition is sponsored by the Worldwide Ferry Safety Association (www.ferrysafety.org), which also organizes the Ferry Safety and Technology Conference.
On June 3 there will be a ferry tour with interactive discussion of telematics technologies by current users and vendors. The tour will also visit current and future landings, with representatives from McLaren; Moffatt Nichol, and the NYC Economic Development Commission’s ferry project managers discussing their resilience, safety, and affordability.
For more information about the upcoming conference, and to register, please visit www.ferrysafetycongerence.squarespace.com
