Maritime blog

Port of Busan: A tech-powered port for a tech forward nation

Like the nation for which it serves as the major port, the Port of Busan has grown dramatically since the end of World War II. After serving as a modest harbor for centuries, it was expanded in the late 1800s to serve as a trade hub with China and Japan, and grew rapidly in the 1960s as South Korea became an export powerhouse. Today, the port is the world’s seventh busiest.

Using AIS Data to Track Russian Oil

Maritime Innovator: UniSea

Our customers constantly amaze us with their innovative approach to industry solutions and out-of-the-box ideas to build a better planet. This month’s Innovative Customer Spotlight is on UniSea, a software and consultancy house that has been delivering market leading HSEQ and operation support software to vessels and companies worldwide for over two decades.

Leveling the playing field: A high-tech tool for small-scale and artisanal fisheries

It is no secret that the world’s largest vessels, the gargantuan oil tankers and container ships that travel the oceans while transiting between ports, are decked out with the latest tech.

AIS ship tracking reveal: Qatar helping EU survive Russian gas sanctions

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has upended not only the diplomatic status quo in Europe but it is having myriad knock-on effects that span continents and economic sectors.

Arctic shipping: The once unattainable becomes increasingly normalized

The ability to sail the world’s northernmost seas has long been a nautical dream pursued by explorers and heavily invested in by nation-states.

Maritime Innovator: Nautilus Labs

Our customers constantly amaze us with their innovative approach to industry solutions and out-of-the-box ideas to build a better planet. This month’s Innovative Customer Spotlight is on Nautilus Labs, a maritime technology company that reduces emissions while maximizing commercial returns. Let’s take a look at how Nautilus Labs is advancing the efficiency of ocean commerce through AI.

Leveraging the power of satellite data to mitigate the global supply chain crisis

This article is the first in a series covering the worldwide supply chain disruptions and how Spire’s global solutions are helping alleviate these pain points across diverse industries including maritime, aviation and weather.

COVID Continues to Throw Curveballs for China's Ports

As has become clear, the endpoint of COVID-19—if it ever comes—won’t be as plainly defined as when it took off in the first quarter of 2020. Here we are now, two years later, and though things seem currently under control in the United States and Europe (though the Omicron subvariant BA.2 may be changing that), the impact of the pandemic is still coursing around the world.

Sanctions on Russia as it presses in on Ukraine

The current Russian invasion of Ukraine is taking place on land long wracked by war. The events that have occurred over the last month bring us to look back on what has come before, including some of the worst episodes of 20th-century European history.

The reality of preparing for climate change consequences

The impending costs of climate change will be significant and span environmental, cultural, and financial realms.

Port of Hamburg: An old port thriving in today’s world

The Germans know what they have in the port of Hamburg. Known in its native land as Das Tor zur Welt­—The Gateway to the World—it is just that, the nation’s primary transit point for goods.

How Jeddah Islamic Port is growing into its future

The port of Jeddah, which for centuries was a primary access point for people making the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, is the second-largest port in the Arab world and the region’s industrial transportation gateway.