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Welcome to the Maritime Topic Hub. The Maritime environment contains a wide range of actors and perspectives, including everything from harm prevention in areas such as ports, the safety of recreational craft, impact on the marine environment from emissions, analysis of NZ’s international supply chain and rescue co-ordination and incident response. The topic hubs seeks to support the widespread maritime whānau by promoting evidence, enabling connections across a dynamic and complex setting. We encourage anyone with an interest to come along and contribute.
Stay tuned for new events in 2023.
This session included discussion technologies to track ship movements at sea. The first presentation was given by Gavin Birrell and Paul Garnham on co-operative sharing of location data to enable response agencies to respond effectively to maritime incidents. The presentation looks at comparisons between technology types and how some systems enable skippers to provide updates that are reassuring both for whānau and for response agencies.
The second presentation is about how AIS ship tracks represent a principal data source for global maritime domain awareness. Moritz Lehmann, a Senior Scientist with Starboard Maritime Intelligence, will describe how data science tools can reveal maritime activity such as fishing and suspicious behaviour.
View the slides here [PDF, 3.6 MB].
Maritime Topic Hub - Identifying ship behaviour using satellites.mp4(external link) from Maritime New Zealand(external link) on Vimeo(external link).
We have planes, we have ferries, and now Ocean Flyer presents seagliders. Join this Technology and Innovation / Maritime hub joint session to hear about an exciting new zero-emission approach to travel in Aotearoa.
Speakers: Shah Aslam, CEO – Ocean Flyer and John Hamilton, Director, Operations – Ocean Flyer.
on the 24th August we held a discussion on psychology and safety which featured academics, practitioners and government bodies. In this session Maria Carrera Arce of the World Maritime University provided a summary of a recently published paper(external link) on SAFEMODE, an EU project looking at how to build a safety learning culture.
WorkSafe Presentation - NZ Psychosocial Survey 2021 Key findings [PDF, 2.3 MB]
SafeMode Presentation - Data quality & trust for Safety Learning Culture [PDF, 6.1 MB]
The hub exists to:
From the cast-off meeting for the Maritime Hub, some common themes emerged to inform the Hub’s direction. These are described below and will act as priorities to define what new research and analysis is relevant for presentation and discussion through the hub.
These are grouped in following aspects of change:
This will be iterative and developed over time, the hub is a space for new ideas so if you think we’ve missed something do get in touch.
All are welcome to join. The topic hub activities will be tagged to make related documents easy to find. As bodies of water touch of all of us in some way, so too will the subjects covered. The domain is relevant to all the Ministry of Transport Outcomes Framework elements which will be one set of tags:
We will also tag material related to Maritime New Zealand’s System Outcomes:
Finally, we’ll also tag with three related areas of interest that apply widely, but particularly in governance:
Three main types of activity will take place:
The hub lead is Tom Eats (MNZ) Tom.Eats@maritimenz.govt.nz.
The hub is open to anyone interested in sharing or discussing urban transport related experience, data, information and research. Email knowledgehub@transport.govt.nz to join.